Youth Needs
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Coping with Violence and National Tragedy 
Author: CYFERNet Team, (12 more by this author)
Description: The primary role of parents is to protect children. Young children do not need to be told about traumatic events that they have no way of understanding. Here are some recommendations and resources to help children deal with violence and tragic events.
Meeting the Needs of Students with Interrupted Formal Education & Refugee Backgrounds
Description: Students with both limited English proficiency and interrupted formal education (SIFE) are increasing in today’s elementary and secondary schools. These students often come into the classroom as immigrant students who have arrived in the US as refugees; fleeing war, persecution and other situations that have had a negative impact on their educational experiences. This webinar will provide background information on Office of Refugee Resettlement programs and policies, along with an update on refugee populations coming into the US. Strategies and solutions in addressing the educational needs of students from refugee families will also be addressed, including innovative programming at the high school level for students who have gaps in their educational backgrounds.
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Author: Sullivan, Theresa (1 more by this author)
Description: This presentation is the first in a series on youth engagement and was presented at the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development on September 26, 2008.
What is youth engagement? What does the research say about it—what are its benefits and how do you do it well? Why is it important? What do we, as a state, need in order to promote and support youth engagement? Terri presents a new framework to help decipher the many and varied definitions, goals and principals of "youth engagement" found in literature and among researchers and practitioners around the state. She synthesizes what youth and adult practitioners, participants, and researchers say it takes to make the most of youth engagement opportunities to benefit participating youth, adults, organizations, and communities.
Author: Sullivan, Theresa (1 more by this author)
Description: This presentation is the first in a series on youth engagement and was presented at the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development on September 26, 2008.
What is youth engagement? What does the research say about it—what are its benefits and how do you do it well? Why is it important? What do we, as a state, need in order to promote and support youth engagement? Terri presents a new framework to help decipher the many and varied definitions, goals and principals of "youth engagement" found in literature and among researchers and practitioners around the state. She synthesizes what youth and adult practitioners, participants, and researchers say it takes to make the most of youth engagement opportunities to benefit participating youth, adults, organizations, and communities.
The Importance of Youth Purpose and How to Support It
Author: Mariano, Jenni; Elizabeth (Betsy) Levine Brown, Ph.D.; Devora Shamah, Ph.D.
Description: Do youth today have or need a sense of purpose in life? Does it matter if they do? This webinar examines whether youth have a sense of purpose in life and what the research shows about the importance of purpose as well as the current state of efforts to support the development of purpose in all young people. The concept of youth purpose is based on work by William Damon at the Stanford Center on Adolescence over a number of years. This topic was the focus of the Winter 2011 New Directions for Youth Development entitled "Support and Instruction for Youth Purpose."
Youth Engagement, Social Trust and the Future of Democracy
Author: Flanagan, Connie (1 more by this author)
Description: Social trust reflects our faith in humanity—our belief that people, in general, are fair and trustworthy. This belief is vital to democracy because people who have faith in others are more likely to pitch in for the common good—to volunteer in their communities, vote in elections, and help others in need. This 90-minute video presentation focuses on the role of youth engagement in nurturing social trust in younger generations and in fostering the future of democracy.
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Understanding the Experiences of Immigrant Children in Minnesota
Author: Skuza, Jennifer (1 more by this author)
Description: Multiple disciplines have contributed to acculturation research with aims to measure, conceptualize, and theorize this enormously complex phenomenon. Few studies, however, have attempted to find meaning in the experience of acculturation. The purpose of this article is to illustrate how the phenomenological approach, a qualitative research methodology, allowed new meanings of acculturation to be revealed in the context of Latina adolescents' lived experiences.