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Know:

  • Youth being resilient group by having positive supports and opportunities 
  • After- school programs having positive effect on youth's behaviors and offer them opportunities 
Learn:

  • Deficit-approach: intervening when young people exhibited problems or identifying "at-risk" youth and to prevent them from engaging in bad behaviors 
  • Research out there on resiliency that had three critical elements for youth to succeed which are caring relationships, clear and fair expectations and opportunities 
  • The youth development movement- redefining success for young people and programs 
More: 
  • Theory and practice of youth development 
  • Growth of after-school programs 

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  1. Victoria RestlerSeptember 6, 2018 at 10:36 AM

    Thanks for this post Ashlee. This is beyond the scope of the assignment, but I am curious about how you know what you do. For example, when you write about knowing that positive supports contribute to youth resiliency, how do you know this? Is it something that you learned in class? Something you observed in youth programs or through your own experiences (all of these are very valid answers!)?

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