Youth experience many emotions throughout the course of a school year. They are subjected to different interactions, relationships, and situations. This can cause the new school year to be an...
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What is Positive Youth Development?
The term Positive Youth Development (PYD) has been a topic of discussion for researchers for the last few decades. It’s becoming more relevant due to the growth rate of common adolescent...
Mentors Are Important
Mentoring is a practice that has been around since the beginning of history. Since then it has shown to be impactful in the lives of the mentored individuals. Mentoring in the most basic...
What We Do
The Institute of Youth Excellence and Development was created to help change the lives of youth. In order to accomplish this, we have developed programs and methods to help organizations become...
Who We Are – Understanding IYDE
In the non-profit world, there’s no shortage of youth organizations. Thousands of institutions are in place all over the country that works with children on a day to day basis. While these...
Mentoring is powerful
Mentoring is one of the most powerful things you can experience. Getting beyond the clichéd “it changed my life” tag line, it is important to realize that it...
IYDE Kicks Off Clifton Masjid Mentoring Program
We kicked off the Clifton Masjid mentoring program today Alhamdullah! Throughout the program, these Clifton Mosque youth leaders will receive over 60 hours of training, have direct access to...
My community has a great youth program … right?
I recently asked a youth director, let’s call him Ahmed, how his youth program was going, and he said it was going really well. They had over 150 youth who regularly attended the Friday night...