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Community Youth Development

Simply put, community youth development involves creating opportunities for young people to connect to others, develop skills, and utilize those skills to contribute to their communities that, in turn, increases their ability to succeed. As with positive youth development, a community youth development orientation involves shifting away from just concentrating on problems, toward concentrating on strengths, competencies, and engagement in self-development and community development. As such, community youth development is defined as purposely creating environments that provide constructive, affirmative, and encouraging relationships that are sustained over time with adults and peers, while concurrently providing an array of opportunities that enable youth to build their competencies, and become engaged as partners in their own development as well as the development of their communities. The definition of community youth development is explained in four parts as outlined in Definition Bullet.

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