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Empowering Youth: How to Encourage Young Leaders to Do Great Things |
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Empowering Youth includes tips, activities, and real-life stories to inspire youth workers, teachers, parents, and other caring adults to empower young people. It also includes questionnaires to help individuals, communities, and organizations assess their strengths and weaknesses in their efforts to empower youth. The book is divided into four sections, with each section covering one of the four empowerment assets (Community Values Youth, Youth as Resources, Service to Others, and Safety). Activities are designed for a variety of settings, including youth programs, communities, classrooms, and faith-based organizations. Stories from young people around the world are also included in this much anticipated resource.
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• Empowering Youth specifically addresses the four empowerment assets in an engaging style, with dozens of true examples that point readers toward doable strategies for empowering young people in their own communities.
• Offers ideas for youth workers and educators.
• Focuses on the development of the Empowerment assets in young people.
• Provides the opportunities and means for youth to genuinely serve others.
• Helps young people feel safe enough to grow into confident leaders.
Special Features
Current research and checklists for each chapter, to gauge how well your community or organization is already building each empowerment asset. Each chapter also includes at least five activities to facilitate with youth and/or adults to build on the empowerment assets. Some activities are geared for communities and organizations new to the concept of youth empowerment, while others help individuals and groups enrich current youth empowerment and participation.
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Audience
This book is for teachers, school counselors and social workers, professionals involved with community youth initiatives, faith-based programs, service-learning, philanthropic organizations, libraries and civic leadership, as well as young leaders and their parents.
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Author
Kelly Curtis, M.S., is a school counselor, writer, speaker, and believer in the power of the Developmental Asset approach. She is the founder of Empowering Youth, Inc., which publishes positive youth development curricula, including the SPARK Peer Tutoring Handbook and Training Manual, and Hidden Treasure of Assets and Career Expedition board games. Kelly writes regularly about her experiences with children, parenthood, and family travel on her Web log, Pass the Torch.
Kelly's web site: www.2passthetorch.com |
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Kelly Curtis in Action
Kelly is a highly-involved school counselor and supporter of empowering young people to do great things. She is the founder of Empowering Youth, a company committed to providing quality, effective, hands-on products for educators and others who work with youth.
Don't miss out on the hot topics people have been talking about! Check out Kelly's blog,
Pass the Torch at www.2passthetorch.com.
Kelly Around Town
Where you can see the author
The above references are pending. More information to follow. Please check back soon!
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Age does not yield superiority; passion and love
put everyone on an equal playing field.
—Lisa Silverman, 17, Centennial High School, Ellicott City, Maryland |
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