Youth & Young Adult Ministries Session One

Youth & Young Adult Ministries

An Online Course Presented by theMidAmerica Region of the UUA

with Support from the Fahs Collaborativeand the UUA RE Credentialing Program

Tuesday, February 12, 13

MidAmerica-UUATuesday, February 12, 13

Fahs CollaborativeTuesday, February 12, 13

UUA RE CredentialingTuesday, February 12, 13

Thank YouTuesday, February 12, 13

ApologyTuesday, February 12, 13

GuaranteeTuesday, February 12, 13

Youth & Young Adult Ministries

Six 90 Minute Webinars (Didactic)

Six 60 Minute Conference Calls (Interactive)

Readings (Required & Recommended, Available Online)

Final Project (Written & Oral Presentation)


Course Outcome

By the end of this course, students should be able to design, implement, and assess a developmentally appropriate faith development experience (rite of passage, worship service, service opportunity, or leadership experience) for youth and/or young adults.


RE Credentialing

Relevant Training Opportunity

Structured Learning Experience


Associate Level

Scope of Knowledge & Skill

Recognizing developmental differences between middle school and high school youth, and/or between high school youth and young adults.


Associate Level

Demonstrated by

Support staff and volunteers in worship, rites of passage, and programming for youth and/or young adults.


Credentialed Level


Knowledge of the developmental needs of adolescents and young adults and the ways in which those are addressed through youth and young adult programming.


Credentialed Level

Demonstrated by

Using knowledge to assess and enhance worship, rites of passage, and programming for youth and/or young adults.


Master Level


Working knowledge of the human and faith development needs of youth and/or young adults and the ways in which those are addressed through a ministry to youth and/or young adults.


Master LevelDemonstrated by

Recruiting and supporting youth and/or young adults in leadership positions and service positions.

Using faith development to inform models of rites of passage and worship for youth and/or young adults.


Competency

Overview

Structured Learning Experiences

Work Products/Portfolio Exhibits


Overview

Provide an overview of what you know about this competency area, and how you have integrated your knowledge into your professional practice. Suggested length--and only a suggestion--is up to one page.



Reflection on:

Provide a paragraph describing the learning experience and its value to you (suggested length of reflection [and only a suggestion] is 50-100 words).



Integration in Work:

Provide a paragraph describing how this has or will influence your work (suggested length of reflection [and only a suggestion] is 125-175 words).



Brief description of each work example (suggested length of description [and only

a suggestion] is 50-100 words)



Relevance to competency:

Provide a paragraph with each work example that explains why you chose the particular piece and how the piece serves to demonstrate your competency in this area (suggested length of each reflection [and only a suggestion] is 125-175 words)


Adolescent Development

Early Adolescence (ages 12-15)

Middle Adolescence (ages 15-18)

Late Adolescence (ages 18-22)


Changes inYoung Adulthood

Adolescence (generally defined as puberty through age 18)

Young adulthood (generally defined as 18 to 22 or 18 to 25)

Later adulthood (generally defined as mid-20s and older)


An Emerging Field

Researchers have begun to define young adulthood as its own developmental period, referring to it as “emerging adulthood,” “the frontier of adulthood,” or, earlier, “the novice phase.”


An Emerging Field

Here at the start of the 21st century, researchers are creating a new field around young adulthood, just as, at the turn of the 20th century, researchers defined a new field around adolescence.


Youth & Young Adult Developmental Stages

Early Adolescence

Middle Adolescence

Late Adolescence/Emerging Adulthood

Young Adulthood


What Is Adulthood?

There are two broad assumptions that define adulthood in our culture:

I know and am fairly comfortable with who I am.

I am willing to take responsibility for myself.


Course Outcome

By the end of this course, students should be able to design, implement, and assess a developmentally appropriate faith development experience (rite of passage, worship service, service opportunity, or leadership experience) for youth and/or young adults.


Spiritual

Youth & Young Adult Ministries Session One