Innovative Youth for Developmental Initiative is a voluntary organization, reflecting the values, priorities, and goals of the adults and young people who are part of the organization to make impact on the community. Innovative Youth for Developmental Initiative is different from other youth groups and systems that exist to provide social control, treatment, or training for young people. The socia
lization of youth in this youth organization primary task is to provide the challenges, experiences, support, and help young people who need to develop to their fullest potential. This community-based organization work to meet the needs of the community and enhance the learning experiences of young girls and boys. IYDI cannot do it alone but with you on board. Our Innovative Youth for Developmental Initiative organization involves young people of all ages and both sexes. We encourage long-term involvement and provide a progression of activities promoting developmental growth. The organization emphasizes on learning strategies based upon fun, play, action, group and individual challenges teaching life skills rather than academic lessons only. For instance, in America, the youth based-group known as the 4-H is the oldest and largest publicly funded youth development organization which begun in the early years of the 20th century as a vehicle for extending the learning of the land-grant university to the children of rural communities, the 4-H today has a presence in every county. It is a part of the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded through a partnership of federal, state, county, and private resources. The 4-H is open to all interested young people and their youth organizations. Based upon these facts, we are looking forward to working with other organizations in making this a success. Similarly, this organization will focus on community base services and development.
• Innovative Youth for Developmental Initiative will strategize programs which will identify our mission, our goals or priorities, our population of learners, and our teaching methods.
• The Innovative Youth for Developmental Initiative will structure programs which will commonly use club structures, camps, sporting activities, regular group meetings, expressive arts, and youth-conducted events to carry out its educational work. IYDI: Innovative Youth Development Education Program
The primary learners are young girls and boys; however, IYDI does educate adults, particularly parents and volunteer leaders who will work with the young people. The primary teachers in our organization are the parents, adults and older teen volunteers who take responsibility for community empowerment, project implementation, special sport events, and a wide range of community-based educational program. County extension educators, once called county extension agents from Ministry of Gender and Development, Unicef will also play a major teaching role in working with both adult and youth audiences. Adults and young people in IYDI join voluntarily, and they will be allowed to select projects and areas of involvement based on personal interests. Working independently or in groups, every young person will experiment and work willingly to demonstrate and produce educational products in areas like hair dressing, soap making, food preparation, environmental study, water and sanitation, photography, leadership skills, clothing and home decorations, etc. They will also work on group programs like community service and cross-age teaching on topics such as teen-age pregnancy prevention, alcohol use and its bad effects, food and nutrition, sports and fitness. These learning will take place in kitchens, living rooms, community centers, churches, community parks, county fairgrounds, gymnasiums, and anywhere young people and adults gather to pursue their work. Young people will come to the active learning environment with different skills and abilities as they approach new situations and ideas by exploring them, engaging with others, reflecting, and questioning in order to discover answers and implications. For instance, you're an adult, walking through a community, when you see a bunch of teenagers horsing around. You're amazed at their energy or maybe, you're surprise by some of their performances. You wish (for the hundredth time - you have kids of your own) that you could channel that energy into something productive or maybe you're a teenager, and a girl at your school just committed suicide. She wasn't a good friend of yours, but still you feel really bad. You wonder what you could have done, or if there were signs you just missed. You even look on the Internet for some information on teen suicide, but you need more than facts. You want to find a way to make sure that this doesn't happen again at your school. You know that some of your friends feel the same way but what can you all do? Either as a concerned young person or an interested adult, one option open to you is to be a member of a youth organization. Like this IYDI Organization is run by and for young people who can offer a lot to their community. Think of all of the organizations you already know about--you've probably been involved in some yourself, at one time or another. There are group discussions centered around almost every topic you can think of, with a huge variety of goals. Here's a grab-bag of examples of some of the organizations you might have been a part of:
• Boy Scouts
• Girls Guide Associations
• Soccer leagues/
• SAV (Students Against Violence)
• A child broadcaster
• Teen-age pregnancies prevention group
• A community volunteer group
• A teen advisory panel for a community-wide health awareness
• An adolescent advisory panel association, etc. These youth organizations started by interested young adults themselves.
