CYFAR GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Teens: Teens will demonstrate knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behavior necessary for fulfilling contributing lives.

CYFAR Guiding Principles for Teen Outcomes

Physical and Psychological Safety

1. Program emphasizes safe and health- promoting facilities, and practices that increase safe peer group interaction and decreases unsafe or confrontational peer interactions.

Appropriate Structure

2. Program encourages limit setting, clear and consistent rules and expectations, firm-enough control, continuity and predictability, clear boundaries, and age-appropriate monitoring.

Supportive Relationships

3. Program encourages and models warmth, closeness, connectedness, good communication, caring, support, guidance, secure attachment, and responsiveness.

Opportunities to Belong

4. Program integrates opportunities for meaningful inclusion, regardless of one's gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or disabilities, social inclusion, social engagement and integration, opportunities for socio-cultural identity formation, and support for cultural and bicultural competence.

Positive Social Norms

5. Program provides rules of behavior, expectations, injunctions, ways of doing things, values and morals, and obligations for service.

Support for Efficacy and Mattering

6. Program emphasizes support for efficacy and mattering: youth-based empowerment practices that support autonomy, making a real difference in one's community, and being taken seriously. Program practices that empower, enhance responsibility and promote meaningful challenge.

Opportunities for Skill Building

7. Program provides opportunities to learn physical, intellectual, psychological, emotional and social skills; exposure to intentional learning experiences; opportunities to learn cultural and media literacy; communication skills; preparation for employment; and opportunities to be active citizens in the community.

Targeted Audiences

8. Program customizes efforts to target audiences based on community demographics, needs, and assets.