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<p style="text-align: center;">Youth Orgs</p>
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Youth organizations set the pace when it comes to creatively address a broad range of factors impacting their students. YTN embodies the same spirit through it's qualitative research and back
door approaches for today's youth. We all desire to see students motivated to learn, grow and to move successfully on to college or career. Achieving this goal has become more difficult given the complex set of factors that hinder students and adversely affect their motivation. YTN has invested ten years in qualitative research seeking to decode the factors adversely impacting students’ success, motivation and preparedness for life/college. The research sought to identify root causes and contributing factors that result in adolescents’ susceptibility to common pitfalls and academic motivation issues.

Based on this work, YTN developed targeted programs that specifically

address the hidden feelings, frustrations, issues and desires youth expressed

in the research sessions. Our understanding led to the creation of

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Welcome Text (School main page)

Youth organizations set the pace when it comes to

creatively address a broad range of factors impacting their

students.

YTN embodies the same spirit through it's qualitative research and back

door approaches for today's youth. We all desire to see students

motivated to learn, grow and to move successfully on to college or career.

Achieving this goal has become more difficult given the complex set of

factors that hinder students and adversely affect their motivation.

YTN has invested ten years in qualitative research seeking to decode the

factors adversely impacting students’ success, motivation and preparedness

for life/college. The research sought to identify root causes and

contributing factors that result in adolescents’ susceptibility to common

pitfalls and academic motivation issues.

Based on this work, YTN developed targeted programs that specifically

address the hidden feelings, frustrations, issues and desires youth expressed

in the research sessions. Our understanding led to the creation of

powerful interactive sessions that help youth evaluate their lives, situations,

and vision for the future as well as empower them to take ownership of

Many of the contributing factors pointed to a deeper issue, to a genesis

point for the disillusionment we found in adolescents that often lead to

escape behavior and motivation issues. The genesis point was identified as

the commonly accepted breakdown in the parent adolescent relationship.

This breakdown stemmed from parents’ failure to recognize, understand,

and adjust to the significant changes in their kids’ brain development, which

occurs eighteen months prior to puberty. As a result distance and friction

developed in their relationship causing a loss of influence on the part of

parents in their kids’ lives. YTN's research found that such a breakdown

was not inevitable. It could easily be avoided when parents made

appropriate adjustments in their approach.

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