Issues and Challenges in Urban Youth Work

Abstract

Urban youth work in Asia faces tremendous challenges in trying to meet the needs of youths and enable them to cope more effectively with issues related to modernization. Some of the more common issues such as rural to urban migration, youth unemployment and underemployment, drug abuse and juvenile delinquency, sexual exploitation and erosion of moral values have to be addressed quickly and realistic long-term solutions found. Youth workers and youth organizations have to examine their...