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Youth Development Autobiography Assignment: For your writing assignment due Sept 28/29, you need to craft a 300 word blog post.  (This is just about one typed page, no longer) Prompt: What is your Youth Development Autobiography (aka My YDEV Story)? My youth development story is that ever since I was young I have loved to help people, I just didn’t know which direction to go. I worked with youth in high school and I knew then, that this is the age group I wanted to be around. I also worked for Ready to Learn which gave me a few years of working with young kids. So, having the opportunity to do both I knew which direction I wanted to go in, which is working with youth. I wanted to help youth and I want to make a change through my life experiences. I want to start after school programs for young moms. I want to be able to lead youth and I want to work with their families. With my life experiences, I know I can be beneficial to young moms. If there were more programs for young

In a paragraph, how does Youth In Action describe “leading with”? In a paragraph, how does Youth in Action describe “leading with”?  Youth in Action mission statement Mission: Youth in Action gives the space for youth share their stories, practice leadership, and create change in their communities. The different things that help with leading youth are the 3 different phases. The different phases are: core, immersion, and Collective. All these phases combined is what the program is doing to help lead the youth in a positive direction. Youth in Action helps so many youths in many different areas.   The 3 phrases are: Core  works with youth to tell their story and deeply listen to others stories. Youth place their multiple identities and communities under the microscope and examine their role and impact in creating a world they want to live. Focused on emotional development and identity in youth leadership. Immersion  explores facilitation and peer education. Focused on soci

Blog post #3:  What kind of youth work have you been involved with in your lifetime?  Reflect on every youth space you have participated in (as a youth or youth worker) and, using the articles, explain how (or if) PLAY was approached in each one. I have been involved in a few different kinds of youth work. One of the most memorable was mentoring at the Met School. After graduating I went back several times, to help my old adviser and his new students. I helped them prepare for there exhibitions and I was there for emotional support. Coming back to RIC, I have had the opportunity to go back to The MET in help while attending Rhode Island. Another kind of youth work I have been involved with was working with kids from 6 to 14 at a local park I helped set up games for the kids at the park. Examples of some of the games were obstacle courses, painting, and planting. I enjoyed creating different activities, and seeing how the youth added to it with there own likes and dislikes.

In this 250-500 word blog post, use quotes and examples from the text to talk about how the deeply held beliefs/assumptions about  “raging hormones, teenage angst, and gawky, insecure, risk-taking adolescents” (8) can be dangerous and damaging to young people who want to lead.   Jessica Brotka Blog #2 This chapter, Framing Youth: Writing ‘Youth’ in Social Contest is about youth and what people view of them. The chapter Bogad focus is on, “In this chapter I will review some of the literature about youth to examine how researchers and scholars have struggled to identify and unlearn many of the dominant discourses the frame young people.” (Bogad, p.2)  People believe that youth are unable to have the skills necessary to guide or handle things on their own. They are unable to take control of the situations. One example from the text that shows ‘how deeply held beliefs/assumptions about “ranging/hormones, teenage angst, and gawky, insecure, risk-taking adolescents” is when Bogad

Jessica Brotka The SEVEN characteristics of Youth Work as defined in this chapter are, Youth work is an educational practice, Youth work is a social practice, Youth workers actively challenge inequality and work towards social justice, where possible young people choose to be involved, youth work seeks to strengthen the voice and influence of young people, youth work is a welfare practice, and youth work works with young people ‘historically’. Under the first characteristic Youth work is an educational practice, I have experienced this because I helped a group of youth in a small setting with creative ways to learning things. It may have been as simple as playing games. The youth worker can adapt to working in many places. This section is about how the youth workers creates different learning styles and how it adapts to working in many places, and the youth worker is helping the youth have different opportunities to express themselves. Second characteristics is youth work is

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