Healthy Youth - 5 Basic Resources For Community Youth

The America's Promise Initiative led by Colin Powell has determined that youth and communities benefit from five resources (promises):

Mentor
Provide youth with ongoing relationships with caring adults, including family, friends and neighbors, in an effort to help young people recognize the valuable role they play in society.

Protect
Provide youth with a safe environment and structured activities, including school, church and community

Nurture
Provide youth with a healthy start for a healthy future, instilling in them a strong sense of self-esteem and high morals

Teach / Learn
Provide opportunities for youth to obtain marketable skills through effective education; teaching them the importance of honesty, responsibility, interpersonal skills, and planning / decision making.

Serve

Provide youth with useful roles in which they can learn the value of caring for other people and contributing to their community

Mission
5 Basic Resources
Our Youth
40 Developmental Assets
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