scholarly journals Effect of HOBY Leadership Seminar on Self-Reported Psychosocial Outcomes in Adolescents

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 118-133
Author(s):  
Andy Harris ◽  
Troy E. Beckert
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Psychosocial Outcomes ◽  
Youth Leadership ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Moral Ideal ◽  
Cognitive Autonomy ◽  
Positive Feelings

Civic engagement is important for the positive development of adolescents. As such, many youth development programs promote civic engagement, particularly community service and volunteerism. This report is a program evaluation of a youth leadership seminar that seeks to empower adolescents to engage in community service. Using a pre to post mixed-methods design, we evaluated 114 adolescent participants on several psychosocial outcomes. Findings indicated that participants experienced positive change that was consistent with program goals. Quantitative findings demonstrated self-reported increases in areas of cognitive autonomy, moral ideal and social responsibility. Qualitative findings included the important themes of an increased desire to volunteer, confidence, and positive feelings towards self. Implications of these findings and future directions are also discussed.

scholarly journals Pelatihan Membuat dan Mempercantik Blog Untuk Remaja Pada Karang Taruna Katana 22 Bekasi

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-178
Author(s):  
Nicodias Palasara ◽  
Anna Mukhayaroh ◽  
Adelia Alvi Yana ◽  
Juarni Siregar ◽  
Ani Yoraeni
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Housing Estate ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Youth Organizations ◽  
Youth Development Programs ◽  
Youth Organization ◽  
University Lecturers ◽  
The Village

Abstract   Youth is the next generation of the nation. Youth is a potential investment that needs good guidance and assistance, so that its activities can be directed and participate in the development of the nation and state. For this reason, it is necessary to accommodate their activeness and creativity in directed organizational associations. In Pengasinan Village, Rawa Lumbu Sub-district, Bekasi City, a Katana 22 Youth Organization has been formed, precisely in RW.022 Pengasinan Village, Rawa Lumbu Sub-district, Taman Narogong Indah Housing Estate, Bekasi City, which is stipulated by a Decree of the Village Head of Pengasinan. At the youth organization a lot of expertise is given in the field of management, human resources related to youth development programs. The problem that exists at Karang Taruna Katana 22 is that they do not understand the use of blogs in organizational activities. For this reason, Nusa Mandiri University lecturers and students hold community service activities in the form of learning to create blogs so that youth youth organizations can use it as a promotional event, adding to the creativity of youth youth writing activities.   Keywords: Blog, Training, Youth Organization   Abstrak   Pemuda merupakan generasi penerus bangsa. Pemuda merupakan investasi potensi yang perlu mendapat bimbingan dan pendampingan secara baik, sehingga kegiatannya bisa terarah dan berperan serta dalam pembangunan bangsa dan negara. Untuk itu perlu diwadahi keaktifan dan kreativitasnya dalam perkumpulan organisasi yang terarah. Di Kelurahan Pengasinan Kecamatan Rawa Lumbu Kota Bekasi telah terbentuk Karang Taruna Katana 22 tepatnya di RW.022 Kelurahan Pengasinan Kecamatan Rawa Lumbu Perumahan Taman Narogong Indah Kota Bekasi yang ditetapkan dengan Surat Keputusan Lurah Pengasinan. Pada karang taruna banyak keahlian yang diberikan di bidang manajemen, sumber daya manusia yang terkait dengan program perkembangan karang taruna. Permasalahan yang ada pada Karang Taruna Katana 22 yaitu kurang paham penggunaan blog dalam kegiatan berorganiasasi. Untuk itu dosen dan mahasiswa Universitas Nusa Mandiri mengadakan kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat berupa pembelajaran pembuatan blog agar para remaja karang taruna dapat memanfaatkannya sebagai ajang promosi, menambah kreatifitas kegiatan menulis para remaja karang taruna.   Kata kunci: Blog, Pelatihan, Karang Taruna

scholarly journals Diversity and Inclusion in Youth Development: What We Can Learn from Marginalized Young People

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 94-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen T. Russell ◽  
Kali Van Campen
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Youth Development Programs ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Race Ethnicity

As we commemorate 100 years of youth development programs whose origins are traced to organizations founded in the United States, we consider key insights as well as strategies relevant for diversity and inclusion. Many of the large, mainstream youth development organizations and programs that were founded over a century ago now primarily serve youth in the “mainstream”: youth from the middle classes, traditional families, and dominant cultural groups. A growing body of scholarship considers the positive development of youth who are marginalized due to their social class, ability, sexuality, citizenship status, race, ethnicity, or culture. We draw insights from studies of youth and families who are immigrants, or who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT). These findings provide a vantage point for considering ways that contemporary youth development organizations might stretch the margins, or adapt their practices, in order to reach and include all youth.

scholarly journals Positive Youth Development: Processes, Programs, and Problematics

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Lerner ◽  
Jacqueline V. Lerner ◽  
Selva Lewin-Bizan ◽  
Edmond P. Bowers ◽  
Michelle J. Boyd ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Youth Programs ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Youth Development Programs ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Diverse Youth

Using the tripartite conception of positive youth development (PYD) suggested by Hamilton (1999) – as a developmental process, a philosophy or approach to youth programming, and as instances of youth programs and organizations focused on fostering the healthy or positive development of youth – we review different theoretical models of the developmental process involved in PYD. In addition, we review the ideas for and the features of youth development programs aimed at promoting PYD. We discuss the need for research interrelating different, theoretically-predicated measures of PYD and, as well, the importance of clear links between models of the PYD developmental process and of the youth development programs seeking to enhance PYD among diverse youth. We discuss several conceptual and practical problematics that must be addressed in order to integrate the three facets of PYD scholarship.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Youth Leadership Training Programs

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-43
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Leadership Training ◽  
Comparison Group ◽  
Youth Leadership ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Leadership Programs ◽  
Level Of Functioning ◽  
Added Benefit ◽  
Overall Functioning

Results of a two-year evaluation of youth leadership programs offered within community youth development programs in Connecticut are presented. Youth involved in leadership activities were contrasted with a comparison group of youth who were not involved in leadership programming. Participants in the leadership programs reported an improved sense of support from their local communities. Leadership training also appeared to offer an added benefit to males who reported significant improvements in their social self-efficacy in contrast to females engaged in leadership programs or youth comprising the comparison group. Youth who participated in the leadership programs appeared to be a uniquely talented group of individuals, initially scoring higher than the comparison group on a variety of youth outcome measures. However, a subgroup of youth who began the leadership program at a lower level of overall functioning were more likely than youth who began the program at a higher level of functioning to report positive changes.

scholarly journals Editorial

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Kathryn Seymour
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Youth Programs ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Unique Approach ◽  
Children And Young Adults ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Independent Practitioner

This special issue of the Queensland Review is devoted to exploring the conceptual and practical implications of bold new Queensland research on youth development programs that has genuine global relevance. The articles in this issue, from leading and emerging Australian and international scholars and practitioners, explore and unfold the different dimensions of this Queensland research for an Australian and global audience of youth researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and general readers. By bringing scholars together with paid and volunteer practitioners to contribute to this special issue, Queensland Review takes a unique approach to exploring youth programs. The independent practitioner voice — especially the volunteer practitioner voice — is largely absent from the scholarly forum, and this issue brings aspects of practitioners’ anecdotal and evidential work to the fore. The articles enable practitioners to share with us how they experience and understand their work with young people, other practitioners and communities. Overall, the scholarly and practitioner contributors to this issue of Queensland Review explore key questions and challenges inherent in the work adults do with children and young adults in youth programs designed to foster their positive development.

scholarly journals Intentional Self Regulation and Positive Youth Development: Implications for Youth Development Programs

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa M. Chauveron ◽  
Miriam R. Linver ◽  
Jennifer Brown Urban
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Youth Development Programs ◽  
Intentional Self Regulation ◽  
Five Cs ◽  
The Relationship

Character education programs are mission-aligned with the positive youth development (PYD) perspective, which, in research with American youth suggests that intentional self-regulation (ISR) develops through mutually beneficial interactions between youth and their environment. Cross-cultural studies of Western youth suggest an adolescence-specific ISR process may exist. We begin to extend this work to assess the relationship between ISR and positive development in young Scottish adolescents (approximately 7th grade, N = 82; 50% male), a previously unexamined group. ISR was correlated with the Five Cs of PYD and OLS regression analyses demonstrated that ISR predicted two of the Five Cs: Character and Connection. We discuss implications for youth development programs of the findings that ISR and some indices of PYD were linked in a sample of Scottish youth. 

Exploring the role of the “Big Three” features of effective youth development programs in El Salvador: The sample case of programs of Compassion International

2021 ◽  
pp. 016502542110228
Author(s):  
Jonathan M. Tirrell ◽  
Samuel W. Hay ◽  
Patricia K. Gansert ◽  
Trang U. Le ◽  
Bridget C. O’Neil ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
El Salvador ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Building Activities ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Compassion International

Programs effective in promoting positive youth development (PYD) involve curricular features termed the Big Three: Positive and sustained adult–youth relationships; life-skill-building activities; and youth contribution and leadership opportunities. Data from 610 adolescents (50% female; M age = 16.39 years, SD = 1.83) enrolled in Compassion International-supported programs in El Salvador indicated that scores derived from a youth-report measure of the Big Three, established using data from Rwanda, manifested strong invariance and predicted both youth strengths and contribution. Qualitative interviews with 18 youth from these programs indicated that the Big Three were seen as present and enhancing their positive development. We discuss how future research using a quantitative–qualitative approach may provide deeper evidence about the practical application and promotion of PYD in youth programs.

scholarly journals Promoting Civic Engagement, Critical Thinking and the Science of Photography through Photovoice

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 62-67
Author(s):  
Julie Tritz
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Youth Groups ◽  
Development Professionals ◽  
Youth Development Professionals

Photovoice is part of a growing interest in using creative tools with youth groups as a means to increase involvement in the positive development of local communities. The goal of Photovoice is to allow youth to record, reflect and act on issues of importance to them through the production of still photographs. The methodology holds promise for youth development professionals in several ways. It teaches soft skills such as teamwork and critical thinking; fosters civic engagement and engages youth in learning about the science of photography. The article concludes with considerations and ideas for emulating the methodology in a local community.

scholarly journals Positive Youth Development through Civic Engagement

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-109
Author(s):  
Jennifer S. Parker ◽  
Laura Bauknight
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Grant Writing ◽  
University Of South Carolina ◽  
Developmental Experiences ◽  
United Way ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Community Issues

As part of the 175th anniversary celebration of Spartanburg, South Carolina, three local foundations and the United Way agreed to fund a youth leadership project. A University of South Carolina Upstate (USC Upstate) faculty member with expertise in youth development and the coordinator of the Spartanburg Youth Council agreed to develop the project and serve as the project directors. We developed a youth philanthropy project with expected outcomes of positive development, increased awareness of community issues, and greater civic engagement for the youth. A group of eighteen teens participated in the yearlong project. Interactive workshops on topics such as community goals, grant writing, writing the request for proposals and reviewing grants were conducted. At the culmination of the project, the young philanthropists awarded grants totaling $12,000 to eight youth serving organizations. The teens reported many positive developmental experiences and greater awareness of community needs and increased responsibility to their community.

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