Positive Life Skills And Health Programmes

All young people need supports and opportunities to make a successful transition to adulthood. The focus of the positive youth development approach is to help youth acquire the knowledge and skills they need to become healthy and productive adults. Teens Uganda helps builds young people’s  their strengths and so they can understand and recognizes their unique contributions to community development.

Teens Uganda and students for Global Democracy Visiting schools 

Many deficits directly limit a youth’s success to external assets. Some deficits block the development of internal assets such as educational aspirations. Some deficits make it easier to choose un-healthy or high risk behaviors. Deficits are liabilities which appear to make harm more probable. 

Many young people are faced with At-risk behaviors which are actions that limit or endanger the psychological, physical, or economic well-being of adolescents. The concept of pro-social behaviors covers a wide range of actions. Such as helping people in distress, working to correct injustices or inequalities, or donating time and energy to service organizations. The promotion of pro-social behavior is considered to be an important strategy to prevent anti-social or health compromising behavior.

In its Implementation of the Positive Youth Development approach, Teens Uganda has has come across a number of  challenges most of which are due to several reasons as below:

• Low self Esteem among young people and lack of sense of belonging
• Adult-ism (Adult thinking that youth can lead"
• Doubts that young people  are really being listened to and that their input can impact the system
• Logistical issues i.e time, compensation, transportation, and scheduling insufficient to support youth involvement

Teens Uganda Club Members at Kawaala Ps