Conference Sub-Themes

Presentations will be based on the following sub-themes:

  1. The Evolution of Youth: Contemporary Pressures
    • Defining youth
    • The role of youth today
    • Child rights, integrity, the place of youth on the local, regional and international agenda
    • Social, emotional, psychological pressures faced by youth today

  2. Parenting today’s youth
    • Different parenting styles and their effects
    • “Social parents”: counselors, guidance officers, teachers etc.
    • The impact of parental problems on children
    • Creating a ‘healthy’ environment for raising children

  3. Youth and Education
    • Forms of formal education: early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary
    • The effects of the education system on youth
    • Benefits of education
    • Vocational education
    • The role of YTEPP, CCC, Servol etc.

  4. Youth and Media
    • Portrayal of youth in the media
    • Effects of media exposure

  5. Youth and Lifestyle values
    • Health related behaviours
    • Sexuality
    • Sports
    • Music, art, drama

  6. Youth and Abuse
    • Alcohol use
    • Drug abuse
    • Bullying
    • Physical, emotional, psychological
    • Child sexual abuse