Helping Youth Reach Opportunity (HYRO) is an international initiative dedicated to promoting positive youth development best practices in local communities. The initiative was founded in 2021 by global youth development organization, Boy With a Ball (BWAB), in coordination with the Institute for International Youth Development (IIYD) with the central aim of mobilizing more community stakeholders into implementing evidence-based best practices in positive youth development while improving the quality of those currently working in the space.The initiative is built around an esteemed scientific advisory board in the field of youth development who have worked with BWAB and IIYD staff to set out a list of eight critical pillars to effective work with young people called the Helping Youth Reach Opportunity (HYRO) Standards. The HYRO Standards are a downloadable list that the initiative will work to publish, share and disseminate in local communities across the world including training tools and workshops.
We have forgotten what to do with young people. Young people have the ability to change the world, but they need to be developed. And then, they will turn the world upside down.
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The world cannot afford a lost generation of youth, their lives set back by COVID-19 and their voices stifled by a lack of participation. It falls to every one of us to do far more to tap their talents as we tackle the pandemic and chart a recovery that leads to a more peaceful, sustainable, and equitable future for all.
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A year and a half ago, COVID-19 changed life around the world as we knew it. Schools, businesses, and churches shut down - initially for two weeks, then for two months, with many just now beginning to resurface after two years of retreat
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