The 5 key elements of positive youth development are:
1) A Safe, Positive Environment. At the Boys & Girls Clubs of Manatee, club staff, facilities, program offerings and age-appropriate settings create stability, consistency and a sense of physical and emotional safety for members. The club provides structure and clearly defines acceptable behaviors.
2) Fun. Clubs generate fun for members. Members develop a strong sense of belonging through connections they establish with staff and peers. Staff Members make the Club feel like home, fostering a family atmosphere and creating a sense of ownership for members.
3) Supportive Relationships. Club youth develop meaningful relationships with peers and adults. Staff members actively cultivate such relationships to ensure that every member feels connected to one or more adults and peers. Staff members demonstrate warmth, caring, appreciation, acceptance and proper guidance in their interactions with members.
4) Opportunities and Expectations. Club youth acquire physical, social, technological, artistic and life skills. Clubs encourage members to develop moral character and behave ethically. Staff members establish and reinforce high expectations and help young people do well in school and pursue a post-secondary education.
5) Recognition. Clubs recognize and affirm young people's self-worth and accomplishments. Staff members encourage youth and provide positive reinforcement as they make improvements and experience successes. The club showcases young people's achievements.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
AN INSPIRING EULOGY
http://www.bgcofmanatee.orgJune 5, 2008
"...For the fortunate among us, there is a temptation to follow the easy and familiar paths of personal ambition and financial success so grandly spread before those who enjoy the priviledge of education. But that is not the road history has marked out for us. Like it or not, we live in times of danger and uncertainty. But they are also more open to the creative energy of man than any other time in history. All of us will ultimatelhy be judged; and as the years pass, we will surely judge ourselves on the effort we have contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which our ideals and goals have shaped that event.
"Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistable tides of history but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance; but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the way we can live.
"That is the way he lived; that is what he leaves us.
"My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.
"Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us, and what he wished for others , will some day come to pass for all the world. As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched, and who sought to touch him: "Some men see things as they are and say why; I dream things that never were and say why not?'"
"...For the fortunate among us, there is a temptation to follow the easy and familiar paths of personal ambition and financial success so grandly spread before those who enjoy the priviledge of education. But that is not the road history has marked out for us. Like it or not, we live in times of danger and uncertainty. But they are also more open to the creative energy of man than any other time in history. All of us will ultimatelhy be judged; and as the years pass, we will surely judge ourselves on the effort we have contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which our ideals and goals have shaped that event.
"Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistable tides of history but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance; but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the way we can live.
"That is the way he lived; that is what he leaves us.
"My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.
"Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us, and what he wished for others , will some day come to pass for all the world. As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched, and who sought to touch him: "Some men see things as they are and say why; I dream things that never were and say why not?'"
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