Youth With A Mission San Diego/Baja will run a 9 month Children at Risk School (CRS) January 3^rd 2011.  Raising awareness, giving basic skills, and mobilizing workers to reach at-risk children are our goals.  The CRS is a University of the Nations (UofN) accredited course earning 12 credits for the 3 month lecture phase and 12-24 credits for the 3-6 month field assignment.

The school focuses on disenfranchised children, such as orphans, street children, the handicapped and abused. The course content will be taught by ministry and social service professionals experienced in helping at-risk children.  The CRS is for those who want to become advocates for at-risk children. This school will multiply leaders who in turn will champion the cause of children through social, political, judicial and spiritual intervention. Students experience God’s heart for justice, defending the cause of the fatherless, rescuing the poor, the weak and the oppressed. It also has an emphasis on human trafficking and will work regularly in the red light district of Tijuana throughout the lecture phase for hands on experience during the course.

Topics covered during the school may be:

·        Overview of the issues and needs of at-risk children

·        Biblical worldview of children and their development

·        Principles of child advocacy

·        Assessment and evaluation

·        Attachment disorders

·        The institutionalized child

·        Child development

·        God's heart for justice and children

·        Child counseling

·        Evangelism/creativity

·        Health care

·        Discovering your potential

·        HIV/AIDS

·        Restoration of a generation

 

Children are the most vulnerable group in any society. The Children at Risk school equips you with the necessary skills to rescue and restore the fatherless, forgotten and oppressed children among the nations. Be challenged in your relationship with God, find your purpose in the Great Commission, and embark with us on the adventure!

ABOUT

God has designed us to respond to the needs of a hurting world. We are called to equip you to be able to respond in such a way as to bring long lasting, radical change to issues of injustice suffered by the most vulnerable in our societies. Due to the diverse nature of the issues at hand we need to employ a diversity of gifts and skills into combating these problems. You can make a difference.  Through lectures, discussions, small group interactions, community life, assignments and research, you will learn in creative ways, and begin applying what you've learned.

 

The Need:

An integral part of the CRS is the three to six-month field assignment, during which students work with ministries, government agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGO's) and other YWAM programs that serve needy children.  This field assignment gives students opportunities to test principles and skills learned in the classroom. Through continued research, case studies of individual children and planning in implementing a project, the students further develop their skills for serving the needy.

 

The field assignment will be decided once the school begins.