2. DEFINITION OF YOUTH
Youth is best understood as a period of transition from the dependence of
childhood to adulthoods independence. that why as a category youth is
more fluid than other fixed age-groups.
The united nation for statistical purposes defines youth as those persons
between the ages of 15 and 24 years,without prejudice to other definition
by member states.
The secretary general first referred to the current definition of youth in
1981 in his report to the general assembly on international youth para.
3. Statistics on Youth
At the beginning of 2012,the world population surpassed 7 billion with people
under the age of 30 accounting for more than half of this number 50.5%.
According to the survey,89.7% of people under 30 lived in emerging and developing
economies particularly in the middle east and Africa.
There are at least 100 million street children globally an estimated 18 million of
these live in India which has the largest numbers of street children of any country
in the world.
In 2012,india and china had the youngest population. According to the united
nations (UN) India, total population in forecast to overtake china by 2025.
356 million 10-24 years-old india has the worlds largest youth population despite
having a smaller population than china ,a latest un report said on nowdays.
356 million youth constitute 28 percent of the country's population.
4. TOP 10 ISSUES FACING OUR YOUTH
PROBLEM
Single parent households
Drug/Alcohol Abuse
Materialism
Racial Discrimination
LGBTQ Community Rights
Teenage Pregnancy
The Future
Time Management
Divorced Parents
Ragging in School and Colleges
5. NATIONAL POLICY OF YOUTH
The government has launched the national youth policy (NYP 2014) to the needs of youth in india.it
is a comprehensive policy document that states the vision of the government pf country and also
how this vision is sought to be realised by the government.
NYP-2014 to needs of the youth in the age group of 5-29 years, which constitutes 27.5 percent of
population.
The target group identified are:
Student youth
Migremt youth
Rural youth
Tribal youth
Youthat risk
Youth in violent confliets
One of school dropouts
Group with social/moral stigma
Youth in institutional care
6. NYP 2014 Seeks to achieve a productive workforce through education, skill
development for better employability and entrepreneurship training.
A healthy generation with sports as a way of life a sense of community service
and strong social values.
High levels of participation in governance and social inclusiveness by creating
equitable opportunities for all.
National valves social harmony national unity and empowering youth through
employable skiils education health sports and recreation gender justice
participation in community service environment and local governance.
7. YOUTH INTERVENTION
Youth intervention is a struggline with delinquency mental health social
academic relational or other issues are at risk for lifelong problematic
behaviour.
Youth intervention helps young people become productive adults and
contributing members of society versus consumers of public services.
Examples of youth intervention programs and pre court diversion programme:
Truancy intervention shoplifting prevention /intervention ,curfew violation
sexual perpetrator counselling vandalism.
Intervention fire awareness, drugs/alcohol prevention/intervention and
tobacco use intervention.
8. SCOPE OF SOCIAL WORK
The scope of practice series articulates and promotes the role of professional
social workers within fields of practice and information about employers and
clients can expect.
Each document has been developers in consultion with social work leaders and
participiniors.
SCOPE OF SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE-SKILLS:
1.Social work and psychosocial assessment
2.Social work and case management
3.Social work in child protection
4.Social work in health
5.Social work in disability
9. 6.Social work leadership and management
7.Social work in mental health
Providing the conditions for positive youth development is a responsibility shared
by families schools and communities.
1. Provide support
2. Have positive family communications
3. Spend time together
4. Expect commitment from youth
5. Have a caring school climate
6. Have cleare rules and consequences
7. Expect youth to do well
10. YOUTH GLOBAL NETWORK
Youth global network is a newly established organization under the extended
ministry of breakthrough.
Making a missional youth community gather equip and mobilize youth and
youth workers to become a missional community with global perspective to
delivers acts of justice and mercy with local impact.
GO GLOBAL AND IMPACT LOCAL:
Endowment for youth global development
Kam tin project
Project C :creative coding for change
11. PROVIDE VOCATIONAL TRAINING
Professional training an photographic art and digital media production
Barista training café business operational training
Operate a community café that serves premium coffee and local organic foods
Kam tin cultural heritage conservation and education
Documentary archival and exhibition and promote community building
Collect community cultural heritage and build repositories
Organize cultural festivals and community events
Nurture a civil society:
Establish cultural resource centre and library
Organize seminars and workshops on global compassionate justice issues
12. BROADEN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
Build an integrated accepting community composed of local youths refugees
and asylum seekers
Organize global cultural exchanges and missional trips
1-on-1 mentorship to provide guidance and deepen learning expenses
13. CONCLUSION
Youth is considered to be the best human
They are going to determine future of the world. they have to be handled
carefully of they have to be helped and understand so that they can make use
of there talents energy for the good of the society .
They can be provided with adequate opportunity and awareness to achieve
the above interaction strategies.
If the youth are to be helped understood are should understood the impact of
the present environment on the youth.
