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COMMUNITY NETWORK FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
CNYD YOUTH DEVELOPMENT GUIDE
2001
What I Already Know | What I Learnt About YDEV History and Practice | What I Want To Learn More About |
I know that when you use approaches like the deficit approach, you are missing a whole side of YDEV. When you just focus on fixing numbers, you can come off as not as genuine.
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I learned that YDEV came out of a period of America trying to fix young humans issues and they called that the deficit approach. According to the article the deficit approach is, “...narrowly focused programs designed to target and “fix” spe-
cific problem behaviors, such as teen pregnancy or drug abuse.
Program success was defined as the reduction of these behav-
iors in the target population of young people.” (1)
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One question that I have about the deficit approach is that do they consider that all youth do not participate in those types of behavior and how did they support them to become better humans?
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I did know about Resiliency Research and how that affects our current attitudes towards youth work. This is one of the methods I use when I help plan a new campaign for work.
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One thing that I did not know formally is the three aspects of Resiliency Research which are, “caring relationships; high, clear and fair expectations; and opportunities for participation and contribution.” I knew that those were important, but I did not realize that they were the three main aspects of it however.
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What local programs switched from a deficit based model to a resiliency based model if any? Did most programs adapt, or just shut down after this research was found.
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“Youth development theory and practice can serve as a bridge between
school and community-based efforts.” (14)
I knew this before because at work we do this all the time. We have so many friends that come into our school programs because of birthday parties, or vice versa.
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I would love to know more about federal and state programs for after school funding that could help us in the future! Sounds Super interesting.
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Thanks for this post Gabby. In reference to your question about how "deficit"-oriented programs responded after the emergence of resiliency research. This article makes the history sound very linear--as though this new research came out and everything changed overnight. The actual story is (as you might have guessed!) much more complex. Today there are many programs that operate around a deficit approach that is sometimes called "risk and resiliency," as well as strengths-based or "positive" programs and finally social justice programs that support both youth resiliency and activism. I look forward to continuing the conversation about these distinct "ideologies" of YDEV.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the clarification!
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