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AWE Participant Application Form

Applications are now opened for potential women entrepreneurs from Kingston and Clarendon only. Deadline - October 30, 2023 5:00 P.M. EST.

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U'tZ-Are-Champions
Project Launch

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Happy 10 Year Anniversary
🎉 YFDN 🎉

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Youth For Development Network (YFDN)

YFDN is a registered non-profit organization established in 2011. We use Sport-for-Development (S4D) and Multi-Arts to empower marginalized young people preparing for employment, entrepreneurship, and adulthood.

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One Love Youth Camp

The One Love Youth Camp is a 7-day creative empowerment camp that brings teens between the ages 14 and 18 together for an experience where they can connect with their purpose, power and possibility.

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YFDN Workforce Development Sports (A Ganar) Certification Workshops

YFDN offers workforce development through Sports (A Ganar) certification Workshops, which target community-based organizations, teachers/trainers in low performing schools...

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Campaign for Love and Forgiveness Community Engagement Circle

The Campaign for Love and Forgiveness, launched in 2006 is executed in collaboration with the Fetzer Institute, a private operating foundation based in Michigan, USA.

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Valuing Our Women (VOW)

A Step-by-step framework for women to launch small businesses. Valuing Our Women (VOW) is a sustainable commitment to value women entrepreneurs and our AWE (Jamaica Chapter) participants.

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Art2Connect

Imagine spending two days immersed in nature, jamming, and building a vibe in the cool hills of St. Mary, taking creative risks, and learning how to Amplify Your Voice & Action to Address Citizen Security and Safety.

About Us

Our Theory Of Change

YFDN is a registered non-profit organization established in 2011. We use Sport-for-Development (S4D) and Multi-Arts to empower marginalized young people preparing for employment, entrepreneurship, and adulthood.

At YFDN, we believe that by creating a safe environment, where creativity, compassion, mindfulness, deep listening, cultural competence and increased self-awareness are at the heart of program delivery, all youth across Jamaica can have an equal chance at a good quality of life. This can be achieved through educational and employment opportunities, irrespective of the socio-economic background of the youth.

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Services

YFDN’s Services

Through the YFDN U’tz Champion Warm-Up Transformational Model

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YFDN Trains & Mentors

Utilizing the Sports Based Youth Development (SBYD) model – Sport-Employability (A Ganar) and Creative...

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YFDN Hosts

YFDN coordinates residential camps, where at risk/vulnerable youths are prepared to re-enter school...

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YFDN Guides

YFDN writes, compiles and prints facilitation guides useful for workforce development, in collaboration with youth...

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Volunteer

Delivering help and hope
to children through sponsorship.

The YFDN ‘U’tz Champion Network’ is the official hub for all programming and youth support services of YFDN. As a team, we serve to safeguard and build bridges between the most at-risk young people and adult learners.

YFDN welcomes support from individuals and organizations at all levels including: international development agencies, private sector and public sector entities, educational institutions, non -government organizations and local community groups.

Apply to Become a ‘YFDN U’tz Champion Volunteer’
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Programs

YFDN’s Signature Programs

At YFDN, our programs are carefully crafted to build the resilience of young people, with a collective aim of reducing crime and violence in marginalized and disadvantaged communities

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One Love Youth Camp

The One Love Youth Camp is a 7-day creative empowerment camp that brings teens between the ages 14 and 18 together for an experience...

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YFDN Workforce Development Sports (A Ganar) Certification Workshops

YFDN offers workforce development through Sports (A Ganar) certification...

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Campaign for Love and Forgiveness Community Engagement Circle

The Campaign for Love and Forgiveness, launched in 2006 is executed in collaboration with the Fetzer Institute...

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Valuing Our Women (VOW)

Valuing Our Women (VOW) is a sustainable commitment to value women entrepreneurs and our AWE...

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Art 2 Connect

Imagine spending two days immersed in nature, jamming, and building a vibe in the cool hills of St. Mary...

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Blog Posts

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Sporting for a Change

How one organization is using the art of sports to spur young people...

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Partners for Youth Empowerment’s
CAN THE CEM FACILITATE COMPASSION INSIDE THE WALLS OF JUVENILE CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES?

If we keep giving from a glass half-full, eventually we are...

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Partners

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