What it is? Relationships with elders, peers, supervisors, family, and other community members commonly influence these behaviors, skills, and attitudes.

What it looks like? Program activities that would enhance a young person's ability to connect include the following: mentoring activities that connect youth to adult mentors to provide guidance and support and build interpersonal skills that are needed to relate to older people and those in roles of authority; tutoring activities that engage youth as tutors or in being tutored, since both types of tutoring activities advance a young person's ability to work on group projects, communicate with others, teach, and learn; research activities in which youth identify resources within the community through activities that allow them to practice conversation and investigation skills with those individuals who they do not know very well; letter writing to friends, family members, and pen pals to build language and communication skills and encourage connecting to others; attendance at job and trade fairs to begin building a network of contacts in particular career fields of interest; role-playing of interview and other workplace scenarios; positive peer and group activities that build camaraderie, teamwork, and belonging, such as team-building exercises, sports and recreation, designing t-shirts or other apparel that signifies group affiliation, etc.; and cultural activities that promote understanding and tolerance.

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