ideas for cap

 BLOG POST #9:  At the end of this semester, you are going to have a broad idea of what your YDEV Master’s Capstone Project will be.  The first step is to find something you care about and want to know more about.  Look back at the questions that you wrote in week two of this class and think about all we have done in the past two months.  What are you still curious about? Where do you want your influence to be in the world?  It can be personal.  It can be work related.  It can be creatively conceived but should be somehow tied to youth and the anchors of this program: Play, Care, identity, Social Justice/Advocacy, Leading With.  

Write a blog post about some of your possible ideas.  They can be loosely formed and broad, but start to write about possible topics.

An idea that has come to my mind in the past 2 weeks, was doing a dive into YDEV. Youth development has become one of my identities and I feel it connects so much of the world without being known. I want to establish the idea more with conversations, but the idea is that I research the youth development work out in the field and connect that to the program itself. Living in a small state like Rhode Island, the youth work can be seen in different diverse areas and throughout the city. I am curious about non profit organizations, I find that the I am always curious how they run, how they are employed, and how they are benefitting their society. NOW after class two weeks ago I am thinking about how many people in these non profit studies function, how they do not have degrees and are doing amazing work, how ceritfactes/degrees/ experience molds the work they do. I hear many folks over the course of 5 years describe YDEV work, but got a degree in communications or another source of education. They seem unamused by the degree but excited and passionate about the work they do. I share news about youth development to my young people, but I would like for this work to be shared and spread throughout the state/country. I would want to go into youth organizations/ community organizations and survey what people know about the work, and maybe teach people about this work.