Promoting Community Youth-Oriented Programs and Activities

Youth-oriented campaigns and programs areProvider is a community-based prevention provider
established all over the world in various communities.and is funded by the New York State Office of
Youth-oriented programs involve a group ofAlcoholism and Substance Abuse Service (OASAS) to
volunteers that facilitate activities that empower theprovide consumer-health and substance-abuse
youth and provide support for their physical,prevention materials through the 70 member public
emotional, spiritual and mental development andlibraries in the five counties served by the Mid-Hudson
achievement. Youth-oriented programs also provideLibrary System. Project materials are available in print,
both one-on-one and peer counseling. Youth-orientedvideo, and electronic format and cover a broad range
programs provide a wholesome, healthy and secureof issues of concern to youth ages 20 and under ,
social environment. Below are examples oftheir families, educators, and agencies. The Teen
well-established youth-oriented programs andIntern Program benefits participants personally by
campaigns.gaining knowledge about substance abuse and basic
Education for Homeless Children and Youth oflife skills.
GovBenefits.gov- The Education for HomelessPromoting for youth-oriented activities may prove to
Children and Youth Program ensures that homelessbe a challenging task for organizers given a limited
children and youth have equal access to publicmarketing budget and allocated resources. When
education. It also provides services to ensure thatresources are limited, the use of simple and
these children enroll and graduate from the schoolaffordable print promotional materials can be just as
program. The program is designed to establish oreffective. Researching for affordable printers can be
designate an office in each state educational agencydone online through web directories, search engines,
(SEA) for the coordination of education for homelessprinting blogs, and even popular social networking
children and youth as well as to develop andsites. Online printing companies like Uprinting, for
implement programs for school personnel to heightenexample, maintains several printing and design blogs
awareness of specific problems for homeless childrenlike and has a page on Youtube, Facebook and
and youth.Twitter.
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