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POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
Adverse childhood experiences can cause trauma in children.
These negative experiences interrupt a child’s ability to
develop positive relationships. This trauma causes them
to miss critical developmental milestones and creates
lasting negative consequences. Youth and adults
who have experienced significant childhood trauma
are more likely to drop out of school, leaving them
unable to achieve their full productive potential. Low
skills perpetuate poverty and inequality and the cycle
continues. According to the World Bank, one third of the
working age population in low- and middle-income countries
lack the basic skills required to get quality jobs.
Our goal is to support young people by increasing their skills and capacity to make healthy
choices, cope with adversity, and develop positive peer relationships to move from
merely surviving each day to actively participating in their own and their community’s
positive development. Our Skills Development curriculum covers topics from self-care, to
education, vocational training, job skills, and building healthy families.
Positive Youth Development program goals include:
• Improved socio-emotional skills, including positive youth development
and healthy peer relationships
• Increased job skills
• Increased number of youth and adults re-enrolling in school or becoming
gainfully employed
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Positive Youth Development Theory of Change
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