JUVENILE DELIQUENCY REPORT

The positive youth development program

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https://www.crimesolutions.gov/ProgramDetails.aspx?ID=300

What is the name of the program you are assessing?

The program‘s name is Positive Youth Development Program.

Where is the program located?

The program “Positive Youth Development Program” is located in USA, West Harrison Street Chicago.

Is the program cost-effective?

This program is cost effective because it is a school based prevention program which taught students cognitive, affective skills, behavioral and encourages them to apply those skills when dealing with daily challenges, decision and problems (Ferrer-Wreder, 2004). However, this program targets the youths in the middle and junior high schools. The program’s components are composed of six primary units which includes, the stress management, self esteem, the problem solving, social networks and substances and the health information together with the assertiveness.

What positive impact is the program providing?

The students are supposed to focus on the causes and symptoms of the stress during earlier adolescent and also are taught adaptive ways to cope. They also taught on how to improve their self-concept at their personal positive attributes and goal settings for their healthy living. The other aspect which this program enables is the social problem solving framework, evaluation of the consequences, and plan implementing and problem identification together with alternative solution generation (Sherman, 2011). The other component within this program which attributes to student’s information on adverse is social and legal consequences of the substance use. Considering the assertiveness this program encourages specific behavior strategies for assertive communication in order to resist peer pressure. The students are also encouraged to examine and use the resource support available in their homes, communities and schools. This program has been identified to have helped in reduction of victimization within the institutions and schools.

Will the program help to curb juvenile delinquency?

This program would definitely help to curb the juvenile delinquency through its sessions whereby it provides integrate programs which facilitates student’s understanding and mastery of subject matter and sequential resources to enable the goal setting preferably for recreation of corrections. The Positive Youth Development Program would also curb juvenile delinquency through a curriculum focused on the general social competence promotion (Ferrer-Wreder, 2004). This is because the students are provided with the opportunity in applying their knowledge and the skills when in dilemmas pertaining alcohol and drug use. In a point of view, this program would help in curbing the juvenile delinquency through mentorship whereby it is well designed to have a role model for the middle school students preferably in all behavior. It has goal in preventing behavioral disability among the students by reducing in-disciplinary and promote connection of the students with teachers, instructors and other adults.

What are the negative sides of the program?

The negative sides of the program include lack of mentality in correlations, involving the young schools youths who are not quite bright towards problem-solving and decision making and not targeting the entire community’s perspectives preferably in criminal behavior (Sherman, 2011). The other negative side of the Positive Youth Development Program is that it is being taught by a mastery-level educator who applies techniques like didactic instruction in which most of the students are unable to understand the outcomes of the learning lessons.

Include suggestions for improving the program

This program needs to have program instructors who are capable in relevant skills and are able to focus on the real-time life in matter of the social challenges for the students. I also suggest that this program has to improve in the assertiveness with adult index in order to have a strong and social emotional adjustment (Ferrer-Wreder, 2004). The other improvement has to be considered preferably in adaptive of stress management strategies so as to help most of the student’s attitudes, intentions and coping with skills inventions. It would also be effective if this program includes meditation scenario so as to help maintaining a drug free schools.

Explain your reasons for supporting or eliminating the program.

The reason why I support this delinquency juvenile program is because of the effective measures which attribute to students social and emotional adjustments. Most of these measurements indicate independent assessment of the student’s school behaviors. This program entails the role of youths through general competence and it enables the students to take control over variety of social problems. Moreover, this program illustrates the appropriate practices whereby there is a strong evidence indicating their achievement through intended outcomes. Certainly, the Positive Youth Development Program contributes to personal and social competence through educating students about management of their stress, problem solving, physical and legal consequences, and assertiveness and also in social networks (Sherman, 2011). It also focuses on the violence prevention whereby it designs measures towards reduction of aggression and tend to improve the social competence. Furthermore, I support the Positive Youth Development Program because it entails several preventions like crime or violence prevention in the communities, Drug and the substance abuse and finally the juveniles. This program is better in the community and has to be considered because it provides education to the youths within junior schools while providing at risk youth with the positive and quite consistent conduct with the adult so as to promote a healthy development. There are factors within this program which attributes to strengthening of the prosocial involvement and mentorship.

References

Ferrer-Wreder, L. (2004). Successful prevention and youth development programs: Across borders. New York [u.a.: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Sherman, F. T. (2011). Juvenile justice: Advancing research, policy, and practice. Hoboken, N.J: Wiley.