Our Programs - Youth Development

CRJ believes the process of Youth Development is critical to the successful transition of youth into adults who function and contribute in daily life. CRJ defines Youth Development as the process all young people undergo in the development of life skills and competencies in an attempt to meet their basic personal and social needs.

Youth Development Goals:

• Create new peer-to-peer activities in our Shoplifting Prevention Program.
• Create new leadership roles for youth to become partners in our organization and not just participants of our programs.
• Provide volunteer services opportunities that will help youth connect, learn new skills, and understand and value their communities.
• Nurture, cultivate, and recognize the many talents of our program youth through creative expression.

 

Our Current Work:

1. Support victims of juvenile offenses throughout their healing process.
2. Increase youths' understanding and positive feelings toward their communities, and increase youths' ability to develop skills by the development of a volunteer service program for all program youth.
3. Developed activities that help youth learn how to communicate in a positive and respectful manner, while being able to assert their feelings.
4. Increase responsibility and accountability of program youth through the development of a volunteer service program.
5. Increase opportunities for program youth to express themselves through creative means.
6. Develop behavior activities for program youth for the promotion of learning and skill building individually and group settings.
7. Increase youths' relations with their families by providing opportunities for communication, joint participation, and compromise.
8. Develop leadership activities for program youth, and leadership roles for program youth to become partners in our organization.
9. Develop program activities aimed at building positive relationships between program youth and the influence of peers.
10. Develop opportunities for positive interactions and relations with positive and caring community members.
    

Make a Charitable Contribution

Please feel free to contact Rosalie Roy for further details on how to make a charitable contribution to the Victim Offender Dialog program, or for specific questions relating to our expenses, or budget.

All donations are tax deductible.

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