Event 2

My other event was going to the open house here at Rhode Island College to support the youth development major. We talked to incoming freshman about the youth development program and our experiences in our college career. We were helping to build our YDEV community and that is one of our anchors in YDEV. Community is something that we have learned about in class. When working with youth and organizations we need to build a good relationship with the community. Being a part of the community is important as a youth worker because it helps get to know the area that you are working with. One day I hope to be a CEO of a nonprofit and a huge part of that job is being a part of the community. Using this event to help build our community and making the program known is a learning point. As CEO I hope to build and help the community that I work in and hope to have youth lead the community. As youth workers we can help lead youth to make decisions in their community. In this event we helping to establish and build our community here at RIC.

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Links

http://www.ric.edu/openhouse/Pages/default.aspx

http://tweens2teen.com/building-community/

https://youth.gov/youth-topics/positive-youth-development






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