Positive Youth Development (PYD) is a strategic framework that guides how communities and programs are structured in order for youth to reach their full potential.
The principles that PYD follows are:
Strength based and positive outcomes: Intentionally helping young people to build on their personal and group strengths to develop skills, competencies and connections that will help them succeed in life.
Youth voice and authentic engagement:
Youth are considered partners and have meaningful, decision-making roles within the organization and programs.
Collaborative and community-wide:
Positive Youth Development is bigger than just one youth program. It’s an approach to working with youth that the community as a whole works to adopt, and we all work together to make our community a safe and positive place for youth to develop.
Inclusive:
We support and engage all youth in our programs and activities, rather than focusing only on youth who are considered “high risk.” Our prevention efforts are
Long term commitment:
Our communities commit to providing appropriate, ongoing support and programs for young people.
As a part of our Adult Education, Partners provides a PYD training that helps adults in the community to utilize PYD strategies. Our Adult training opportunities are appropriate for youth serving professionals, teachers, coaches, parents, aunts, uncles, grand parents, and any who serves as a trusted adult to youth in their life.
