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<p style="text-align: center;">Secular Youth Orgs Area</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Youth Orgs</strong></p>
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Youth organizations set the pace when it comes to creatively address a broad range of factors impacting their students.

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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 their lives.

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.

Our work resulted in the development of four programs youth organizations can leverage to prevent the factors that cause many adolescents to struggle in the crucial adolescent years.
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	<li>The Secrets of Influential Parenting: helps parents make appropriate adjustments</li>
	<li>It’s Your Life: addresses students’ internal motivation and belief issues</li>
	<li>Reboot: addresses the dual life culture students hate but fall prey to</li>
	<li>Succeed: addresses the unexpected challenges of the College/Career Transition</li>
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Learn more about YTN’s Partnership Program that makes it feasible for school districts to leverage these preventive programs.

Highlights/links

Research: Review YTNs findings from its extensive interaction with thousands of adolescents.

Partnership Program: Make leveraging YTNs’ resources feasible with our partnership program.

Parent Programs: Learn about “Influential Parenting” and how it empowers parents to change the lives and motivation of their adolescents.

Student Culture: Students need a venue to address the harmful dual life culture that permeates our youth culture today. Youth find a voice with Reboot.

Motivation: Explore a creative, interactive, and restorative way to draw out students’ internal motivation that will last, “It’s Your Life!”

College and Career Transition: Far too many high performing students struggle in their transition to college and career.   When 28 % of all college freshmen do not make it through their first year of college, we need to help them understand the change, challenges, and stress that snare so many unsuspecting graduates. Succeed does just that!

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