Youth Development at Rhode Island College opens endless doors to opportunities with youth in our society in multiple ways. This program consists of three different majors into one; Teaching, Social Work and Nonprofit Studies. This major lets you have a little glimpse of everything without giving up something else. Being able to work in either administrative, face to face or both helps to open opportunities especially for your internship. In your final year you are required to do 180 hours of internship of your choosing. It doesn't just start there, in classes prior to this you are presented with the opportunity to work one on one with you with a total of 45 hours between two education classes. Having opportunities to work with you helps to getting yourself ready and helping you to become mindful of where YOU see YOURSELF as a youth worker.
Rhode Island College is the ONLY college in RI to currently offer a Youth Development Program. This program is perfect for those who do not want to work with youth in a traditional school setting and guide youth to embrace their dreams. YDEV helps youth to also understand and create the concept of community with his or her peers along with us youth workers. As a youth worker we ourselves learn what it means to be apart of a supporting and creative community as well as creating new toolbox activities, implementing safe spaces and finding a passion within your career.
Youth deserve any chances that we give to them to flourish in programs other than a typical school day, then this is the program for you.
Gianna, I like how you chose to talk about what we have done in previously classes to understand our journey to where we are now and this is how we know that we want to work with youth rather than exploring to another major.
ReplyDeleteI like how you convey the field hours as helpful to becoming mindful of yourself as a youth worker. Mindfulness rings in my head after our presentation from the Center for Resilience and I appreciate the fact that part of mindfulness is an awareness of yourself and applies to people young or older
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