Youth are defined as those between the ages of 15-24 years old. This stage of adolescence and early adulthood is an important period of growth and development as youth establish their identity and form close relationships. The document outlines several issues youth face such as sexual risk behaviors, drugs, lack of access to education, and poverty. It also discusses the importance of youth involvement in communities and lists strategies for improving quality of life, including organizing study groups, relief efforts, and campaigns. Community action initiatives aim to support at-risk youth through outreach, improving services, mentorship programs, and addressing basic needs.
Youth are defined as those between the ages of 15-24 years old. This stage of adolescence and early adulthood is an important period of growth and development as youth establish their identity and form close relationships. The document outlines several issues youth face such as sexual risk behaviors, drugs, lack of access to education, and poverty. It also discusses the importance of youth involvement in communities and lists strategies for improving quality of life, including organizing study groups, relief efforts, and campaigns. Community action initiatives aim to support at-risk youth through outreach, improving services, mentorship programs, and addressing basic needs.
Youth are defined as those between the ages of 15-24 years old. This stage of adolescence and early adulthood is an important period of growth and development as youth establish their identity and form close relationships. The document outlines several issues youth face such as sexual risk behaviors, drugs, lack of access to education, and poverty. It also discusses the importance of youth involvement in communities and lists strategies for improving quality of life, including organizing study groups, relief efforts, and campaigns. Community action initiatives aim to support at-risk youth through outreach, improving services, mentorship programs, and addressing basic needs.
Youth are defined as those between the ages of 15-24 years old. This stage of adolescence and early adulthood is an important period of growth and development as youth establish their identity and form close relationships. The document outlines several issues youth face such as sexual risk behaviors, drugs, lack of access to education, and poverty. It also discusses the importance of youth involvement in communities and lists strategies for improving quality of life, including organizing study groups, relief efforts, and campaigns. Community action initiatives aim to support at-risk youth through outreach, improving services, mentorship programs, and addressing basic needs.
years old (WHO). Youth as the critical period in a person’s growth and development from the onset of development toward the peak of mature, self-reliant and responsible adulthood comprising the considerable sector of the population from the age 15 to 30 years old (Nation Building Act of 1995, RA 8044). Youth is defined as those within the adolescence and early adulthood phase (psychosocial perspective). • Adolescence stage – youth have already an integrated image of themselves as unique persons and are in the process of constructing their personal identity. This is the stage when they cling to a peer group. Earlyadulthood stage – the youth form a close relationships with others (Philippine Medium-Term Youth Development Plan PMTYDP, 2005 – 2010). In the study, it was revealed that many young people do not go through the expected course as many get side-tracked by family life. • The youth are mostly concerned with issues related to sexual-risk behavior and drugs. • Limited access to quality education and training, increasing number of out-of-school youth and the lack of educational and scholarship opportunities. Low educational attainment and high cost of education, limited government funding for education, • High incidence of poverty and the youth’s lack of knowledge on history and culture. • The youth lack on the involvement and influence in community and local affairs. Why is youth the most crucial stage in the life of a person? Importance of Youth in Community Action
“The State recognizes the vital role of
the youth in nation-building and shall protect their physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual and social well-being. (Art. II, Sec. 13) The youth are the vital resource of the community.
1. They are the dynamic foundation of community
force and community change agents. 2. They are the forerunners of social transformation and essential asset because of their creativity, resourcefulness and keenness. Role of Youth in Community Action
The role of the youth in community action is
to improve the quality of life of the people through community development. Effective community development results in mutual benefit and shared responsibility among community members Ways on how the youth can improve the quality of life of the people in community
1. The youth may convene as a social group to
study urgent issues and produce policy recommendations. (violation of human rights, gambling, domestic violence and child abuse, criminality, drug addiction, terrorism, illiteracy, and among others. 2. Undertake listening circles. Listen to problems and commit to solve them as soon as possible. 3. Join volunteer groups and work for their purposes. 4. Discover, map and mobilize assets hidden away in all folks who live in their community and bring those resources out of the closet and into creative energy with each other with dramatic result. 5. Organize study circles. Meet 2 to 3 times a week to explore a subject often a critical social issue. Encourage those attendees to formulate their ideas about issues and share with others. 6. Conduct dynamic dialogue or collaborate with law enforcement agencies on critical issues that confront them. 7. Conduct relief activities for disaster victims. 8. Campaign for a clean and honest elections or blood donations to the PNRC. 9. Be a member of religious and spiritual activities. 10. Be a member of socio-political actions groups such as the PPCRV, Crime Watch, Crime Volunteer Groups, Volunteer Against Crimes (VAC) and others. Four Strategies to support and protect the youth well-being.
1. Building youth-caring communities
2. Developing community-caring youth 3. Reengineering the mechanism through which the youth services are delivered 4. Becoming more responsive to the specific needs of the youth Community Action Initiative
Itis a community-based collaborative
project in partnership with political and social institutions and sometimes with religious and business association. Its goals are…
1. One to one outreach, support and advocacy to engage the target
population. 2. Improve linkages between service provider agencies on and off reserve and increase capacity to reach and support the at-risk population. 3. Development of a core group of mentors within the target population group that can support and train others. 4. Intergenerational knowledge transmission through workshops and activities. 5. The development of a food cooperative to address the basic needs of this population and promote self-sustainability.