Youth work and Ideology

 ´´Risk, Resilience and Prevention focuses on identifying problems with children and adolescents and intervening with education.¨

  • Education is the key to many problems among youth.

¨Through investigating social issues from an intersectional perspective, young people, alongside adults, work to transform themselves and society by developing critical consciousness and engaging in social action.¨

  • Allowing youth to work among adults is a great strategy to get them involved in social action. This also teaches them responsibility, social skills and empathy.

¨While our program is rooted in a Social Justice Youth Development ideology, it is not our goal to convert students into this belief system.¨

  • Youth Development ideology can change based on youth worker interest. For example I´m very interested in social justice aspect of youth Development but I´m also interested in Civic youth Development.

These quotes represents everything that i would like to be as a youth worker. I would like to make changes, give youth the opportunity to get better education and speak for themselves and those who can´t. 


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