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Our Objectives In Youth Achievement

Strategy 4 Helping keen young people overcome disadvantage or serious obstacles to reach their goals

Objective 11 Support research which identifies appropriate ways of removing obstacles to the progress of young people in education, employment and recreation.
Objective 12   Support initiatives which increase significantly the number of skilled young people available to employers and tertiary educational institutions.
Objective 13   Facilitate opportunities for talented young people to access secondary and tertiary education, which they might otherwise not be able to attend.
Objective 14   Facilitate the guidance of students into the most appropriate employment and / or tertiary education.
Objective 15   Help provide young people experiencing career blocks with motivational experiences, opportunities to gain general life skills, personal development, job search skills and links into employment, education and training.
Objective 16   Support the ongoing development of various forms of dialogue among young people, prospective employers and educators.
     
Strategy 5 Rewarding young people who strive for personal excellence in education, employment or recreation

Objective 17  

Help mobilize all available resources to be used to maximize benefits to young people and through them – the whole country.

Objective 18  

Support initiatives that encourage excellence in areas such as:

  • youth development;
  • arts, spirituality and national culture;
  • professions, trades, primary industry and business;
  • sport and recreation;
  • education and training.
Objective 19   Assist employers and tertiary institutions to recruit an adequate volume of applicants who are sufficiently skilled and prepared.
Objective 20   Involve young people in appropriate aspects of planning and awarding scholarships, grants and other forms of assistance.
Objective 21   Recognize in appropriate ways, young people who have made significant achievements in their field of study, employment, or other pursuit of excellence.
     
Strategy 6 Recognizing among young people leadership and commitment to helping the United States of America succeed as a prosperous nation

Objective 22   Support initiatives, especially in civic literacy which encourage participation of young people in the workings of their society as well as international relationships.
Objective 23   Support initiatives promoting the development of a national culture which values ideals of leadership, commitment, social justice, responsibility and mutual obligation.
Objective 24   Help provide opportunities for emerging young leaders to look beyond themselves and focus their attention, skills and energy on the consideration of some core issues that face the nation.
Objective 25   Assist selected young people to participate in significant events within their own country as well as overseas.



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