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243:. Despite the name, the program was created for non-Indian children. At first the group was for boys only, but later it would also include girls. Seton instructed the children in his town in Connecticut in outdoor "Woodcraft" – knowledge and skills of life in the woods – and based much of the group's terminology and structure on the misconceptions about Native Americans that were common in that era. The program spread internationally to become the Woodcraft Movement and many of these programs still exist. Seton's Woodcraft scheme also had a strong influence on later youth programs and organizations, particularly, the 346:
organize and participate in youth exchanges. At these events, youth from different countries and cultures would get to know each other, come together around constructive activities and bring back positive experiences to their societies. These youngsters and young adults would eventually become adults in places of responsibilities and in case of a crisis, it was hoped that this civil network would resist war mongering rhetorics, lies and disinformation. Thus, e.g. in 1956,
24: 270:(1899–1902). Like Smith's Boys' Brigade, the organisation was uniformed, being heavily influenced by the military, though it has changed tremendously as a movement since that time. For the first time youth work in the UK was taken out of the streets of London as Scouting was made into a national (and before long international) organisation. 345:
During the second world war, leaders were looking for strategies to prevent a World War III – which would probably be fought with nuclear bombs and annihilate humanity. One of the strategies put in place was to set-up youth organisations worldwide and have youth with similar fields of interest
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Later in the 20th century concerns were raised about the number of young people not in membership of youth organisations. This led to the first (unsuccessful) attempt to register all young people in Britain in 1941.
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for the first time outlined the statutory responsibility for all local government organisations to provide targeted youth work activities within their region. With targets published in 2003 set on
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in the press about teenage delinquency led the British government to look into a national response to catering for the needs of young people. In 1960 a government report known as
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was released, which outlined the need for local government agencies to take on responsibility for providing extracurricular activities for young people. Out of this the
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in 1944. She went out onto the streets of London to address issues such as health, family breakdown and poverty in war-torn parts of the city, using a disused
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and emotional needs as well as the physical needs of the young men that he saw around him. The delivery of Williams' work was mainly through
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about experimental street projects that were taking place up and down the country. It outlined the need for something more than
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Work with young women however was seen as less important because young women's needs at this time were seen as being centred on
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in certain parts of the country because young people were still being excluded, and it sold tens of thousands of copies.
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In 1844 the first organisation whose sole aim was to address the needs of young men was founded. The
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information many local authorities were given the push they needed to establish quality services.
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The European Youth Portal is the starting place for the European Union's youth policy, with
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program for boys aged 12 – 14. A parallel program was established for girls, called the
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people from Eastern European families in the east end and set up an organisation called
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in the 18th century, which was the first time that young men left their own homes and
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Harold Hill: A People's History – The Albemarle Report leads to the First Youth Club
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in the United States) were founded by Baden-Powell with the aid of his sister
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International Youth Federation for Environmental Studies and Conservation
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Contemporaneous with the development of Scouting was the creation of the
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working on the streets of London though it wasn't long before the first
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International Youth Federation for the Study and Conservation of Nature
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in urban areas, which was responded to by the efforts of local people.
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was born. For the first time youth centres and fully paid full-time
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International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
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began his work with young men on the streets in deprived areas of
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to the big towns. The result of this migration was an emergent
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The next approach to develop was that by arts worker
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movement in Canada. Originally developed through the
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