Nowadays, when life runs forward at an incredible speed, and everything around changes by leaps and bounds, it is very important to be at the center of events from an early age, to lead an active life, to occupy a leading position in society. And if earlier, not so long ago, young people were deprived of such opportunities, now many paths and roads are open to them thanks to various areas of youth policy. It is about them, about these areas, as well as about what this is - youth policy, and we will discuss further.
Youth policy: what is it about
As you might guess, this is part of an ordinary, “adult” policy, but aimed at young people and designed to work for their goals and interests. These are all kinds of measures aimed at a certain quality of life of young people - more precisely, at acquiring this quality and maintaining its existence.
If, in addition, you rely on such an important document as the “Fundamentals of State Youth Policy in the Russian Federation until 2025,” it can be argued that youth policy should be called a whole complex of the most diverse and various measures and efforts undertaken by the state, which, in cooperation with various citizens and institutions, seeks to increase the potential of youth, and in addition, provides a wide springboard for the self-realization of the younger generation by all acceptable methods. The role of the leadership apparatus is reduced to timely informing the right layers of the population about existing or future opportunities, as well as attracting young citizens to the bustling and active life of Russian society.
Who are young people
The phrase "young people" is familiar to everyone. However, who should be considered young people? Are you a young man at sixteen or still a teenager? And at twenty nine still young or not so? According to scientists, young people should be considered people from 14-16 years old (a specific figure depends on a specific country, each state has its own age threshold - but within the general norm) and up to 25-30. That is, at thirty, a person can still belong to the category of youth, despite the fact that at this age it is already perfectly acceptable to become parents. By the way, about parenthood: and it is also connected with it precisely the definition of the fact when a young person ceases to be such and becomes an adult. Scientists define this period in human life as the period of transition from carefree childhood and youth to the time of social responsibility. And parenthood, that is, responsibility for the life of another - small - person, is just an indicator of growing up. Although this statement is, of course, controversial, because because of earlier puberty, young men and women begin to live sexually earlier, therefore, they can become parents at eighteen or even sixteen.
Another indicator of youth is that it is not able to participate in certain areas of life due to a lack of necessary knowledge, experience or other factors; however, in many other areas, young people have special benefits provided by the state.
Why youth?
Perhaps young and promising shots were always valued (only experienced, "shot sparrows" can compete with them), but why is it that such close attention is directed to young people? Why is so much effort put into working with it? The answer lies in the question itself - today's young people have a future, including the country. This is the category of the population which, after a very short time has passed, will become economically active, so to speak, will be transferred to the main team from the bench. Young people have many advantages: they are creative, mobile, ready for change, able to notice important details, initiative. But most importantly, they are young, they have a whole life ahead of them, which means they have the opportunity to make this life worthy, such as they want.
Previously, in the Soviet period, a Komsomol existed for similar work with the young and promising. When the organization ordered a long life, it took someone who was ready to shoulder such a heavy burden. Such a man was found - or rather, a position was found for him: the place of the Commissioner for Youth Affairs under the President of the USSR. It was created in 1990, and the first honorary owner of this post was Andrei Sharonov. It was he who stood at the origins of the development of the directions of state youth policy in the Russian Federation, it was with his direct participation and under his leadership such organizations as the state committee and the government for youth affairs appeared.
Over time, these structures have somewhat transformed, and at present in our country there are the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs, as well as a similar department.
The main directions of state youth policy in the Russian Federation
Youth policy, as mentioned above, aims at developing youth in various fields, increasing the potential of this category of citizens, providing them with opportunities for self-realization. Thus, youth policy has its own types, in other words - directions. There are fifteen such directions of state youth policy in the Russian Federation, all of them are fixed in the document already mentioned above - "Fundamentals of state youth policy in the Russian Federation until 2025." Next, we will talk about each of them.
Patriotic Direction
Orientation to love for the Motherland is one of the key tasks of the state, and therefore it is not surprising that patriotic education belongs to the main directions of the youth policy of our country. What does it consist of? First of all, in instilling an understanding and awareness of their responsibility for the fate of their own country, for its present and future. In addition, speaking of the patriotic education of fourteen and / or thirty-year-olds, one cannot fail to say about military service or about preparation for this event. The following two features follow from this: young people should actively (or even more actively than before) cooperate with war and labor veterans, with their existing organizations, and the state is obliged to contribute to this - as well as the archaeological, historical, and local history movement of youth who travel to excavate places of all kinds of battles and battles, trying to find information (and not only) about people and events of many years ago.
In addition, the state’s tasks in implementing such a direction of youth policy implementation as patriotic education are also the preservation of traditional cultures and crafts of various nationalities living in our country, and the creation of friendly relations between representatives of youth of different nationalities, religions and the like.
Volunteer activity
Another area of state youth policy is the development of volunteering. Probably everyone knows who such a volunteer is - a person who takes part in something or engages in any activity on a voluntary basis, as a rule, free of charge in his free time. Recently, this movement has taken on an ever-wider scale in our country - for example, people are helping in the search for the missing, in caring for the elderly and lonely, in raising and communicating with children from orphanages. And it is not surprising that this area belongs to one of the main areas of youth policy - after all, this particular type of activity teaches goodness, compassion, mercy, responsiveness, humanity - that is, everything that everyone, including a young person, should possess. Therefore, it is precisely with these things that the state’s policy is connected: in addition to organizing all kinds of events with the aim of attracting youth, it is obliged to provide all possible assistance in all volunteer initiatives and projects, to support information resources, and to contribute to the implementation of various ideas of volunteers.
A look abroad
This is not the so-called direction, but its essence: cooperation with foreign representatives and organizations, in other words, international interaction. In the tasks of the higher leadership, the first place is given to the promotion and strengthening of ties between young people of our and other countries, the acquaintance of Russian youth with the history, culture and traditions of our neighbors. The so-called exchange of experience is also welcomed, which just contributes to all of the above - when a Russian student, for example, goes to study abroad for a while, and a student from the host country comes to Russia at the same time. In addition, for the implementation of the above tasks, our and other states regularly carry out all kinds of international events for this category of the population - conferences, meetings, rallies and the like.
Work with public organizations
Another type of list of the main directions of youth policy in the Russian Federation is interaction with all kinds of public organizations. What is it for? In order to form a civic position of the younger generation , and an active one - after all, this is precisely the basis for regular relations between the state, the existing society and the youth included in it. Such a position is best worked out just in such youth public associations, whether it be a union of interests or a community gathered for joint activity. In order for the state to support such an organization, it must meet several specially designated conditions - for example, the number of participants in it should not be less than three thousand people. There are still fifteen such unions in our country.
Health
The next area of youth policy is directly related to the healthy lifestyle that everyone should lead. In this direction, in addition to promoting a healthy lifestyle, much attention is paid to strengthening the understanding of the seriousness of a disease such as HIV and the need for action to prevent it in the heads of young people. Various measures are constantly being carried out (and are being developed) to prevent addiction, as well as to promote a healthy lifestyle and the desire of young people to lead it.
Unfortunately, in our country, the rate of growth of immunodeficiency virus infections is quite high, which affects the quality of life of the younger generation - which means, more than ever, it is important to ensure that young people understand "what is good and what is bad." Thus, the relevance of this area of youth policy development is extremely high.
Innovative activity
The goal of this youth policy course in Russia is to unleash the creative potential of young people, encourage their innovative projects, and identify the most promising, talented, creative young people who can push the country forward to development. The state seeks in every possible way to support not only young inventors, but also scientists, whose activities in the future will allow cooperation with both leading Russian and foreign organizations in various fields.
Business activities
Closely related to the previous one is another area of youth policy activity - entrepreneurship. The efforts of the state are aimed at ensuring that there are as many young entrepreneurs as possible - for this purpose, special educational programs are created that should educate newcomers in competent business management.
The growth of talented and young entrepreneurs should have a significant and, most importantly, positive impact on the economy of the Russian Federation, therefore, the acquisition by young people of the skills of successful entrepreneurship can be considered as one of the main directions of youth policy in the Russian Federation.
Youth in the media
The journalistic fraternity is a strong union of professionals. It is important that it is replenished with talented young personnel, for this purpose it is simply necessary that the so-called youth media of young amateur professionals exist. However, a real journalist must possess many skills and qualities, and first of all be a person of honor, speech and informational literacy (the absence of this, alas, many "professionals" sin). Higher authorities in every possible way welcome and support the creation of youth newspapers, magazines and other mass media, up to the point that they help young pen talents in internships and / or employment.
It is hardly necessary to explain why the presence of youth in the media is relevant: the latter have a wide range of opportunities to reach out to literally every citizen of the country, to cover all areas and spheres with their all-seeing eye. It is the media, in addition, that plays the main role in the formation of one or another public opinion, in the formation of the citizen’s cultural and value principles in general. Sometimes they can literally subjugate themselves, force unconditionally believe - which can, of course, be used for evil purposes, manipulation for the sake of. But this is exactly what a real journalist should not be, which again brings us back to what was said earlier in this section.
Socially dangerous
Unfortunately, among young people, as well as among any other category of people, there are not only prosperous and intelligent guys. There are those whose life in society, to put it mildly, is difficult. The state is called upon to facilitate the process of socialization by providing comprehensive support in choosing a future specialty, employment, etc., helping from a psychological point of view as well. Those young people who fall into the category of “socially dangerous” can be talented and promising by no less than (or even more) ordinary children whose lives are better.
And it is very important to help such young people in time, unleash their potential, give them opportunities for realization, and not allow them to ruin their own destiny. In this regard, the state faces another challenge in this area of youth policy: the need to instill a tolerant attitude towards everyone and everyone - both young people from the category of "socially dangerous" and their "non-dangerous" peers, which is no less important and equally difficult .
Self management
All sorts of student clubs and other organizations are growing from year to year by leaps and bounds. This direction of the youth policy of the Russian Federation has become widespread among students, and perhaps in many ways the idea of self-government has become so attractive to young people. The state is actively contributing to the emergence of such clubs and organizations, since they have a direct benefit for itself. Which one? Those people - young people !, that begin to play a significant role in student self-government, that break into the leaders, are usually smart and ambitious. These guys are able to organize others, to captivate, to lead them - it is precisely in such boys and girls that the country needs. Leaders among young people will grow, develop, comprehend the new - and will become leaders not of a small community, but, possibly, of a whole country, going to work in executive or legislative bodies. In a word, leaders among talented youth of Russia are very necessary - that is why this course is one of the priority areas in the youth policy of the country.
Becoming
An important moment in the life of every young man, which is largely a turning point, is the choice of a profession. And here the state is also on the alert: such a direction of youth policy as a career is being implemented. Its goal is to see a decision consciously taken by a young man regarding the future life path. But I must say right away: the state’s policy here is such that it is necessary to attract more youth to the working specialties. Institutions and universities are crowded, lawyers, accountants, economists will have enough to live on, but meanwhile there are not enough people with working specialties - interest in them has faded, they are considered prestigious. - , . , .
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This has already been discussed indirectly earlier, but a separate area of youth policy has been singled out - the development and promotion of creative activities by young people. This allows you to identify young talents in various fields - whether it be music or dance, painting or poetry and the like. The government in every possible way promotes the implementation of young people, for this purpose organizing all kinds of (including training) events, creating conditions for creativity, the exchange of experience, and the accumulation of knowledge.
A family
Now more and more often young people are in no hurry to marry, simply cohabiting, raising children in such relationships. Others do not bind themselves with any obligations whatsoever - and in this case we don’t have to talk about children at all. The so-called free relations, when no one holds anyone and no one owes anything to anyone, are becoming increasingly popular.
This direction of the state youth policy of the country is designed to solve this problem: to show the younger generation how important the family is in life, to instill the necessary family values, a positive attitude towards marriage and the birth of children.
State Youth Policy Specialists
To ensure the fulfillment of all requirements and conditions, the proper implementation of all areas of youth policy, we need professional staff, and this is what the last section of the country's youth policy is dedicated to. Its purpose is to assist in the development of personnel and its potential, to coordinate the activities of these people and all possible help to them.
The main directions of state youth policy in our country were listed above, and the question of what they consist of and who they are dedicated to is also revealed.