youth center
Let an agent explain youth centres and their kinds, relay their organisation, programmes and funding from youth work and social policy sources, describe scout, faith-based and autonomous models, and distinguish youth centres from schools, sports clubs and youth hostels.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What a youth centre is.
Definition
Definition and kinds.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a youth centre, and how do municipal, scout, Salesian, autonomous and national centres differ from schools, clubs and hostels? definition
- Is the question about youth centres in general, a model or a specific centre? boundary
Activities
Activities.
Activities
Activities.
- What activities, education and support do youth centres provide? definition
- Which entry fits the specific activity? action
Run Running a centre.
Organisation
Organisation and staff.
Organisation
Organisation.
- How are youth centres organised, staffed and governed, including youth participation? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Safeguarding
Safeguarding and funding.
Safeguarding
Safeguarding.
- What safeguarding and funding rules apply? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Models Models.
Movements
Scouts and faith-based.
Movements
Movements.
- How do scout centres and Salesian youth centres operate within their movements? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific movement? action
Autonomous
Autonomous centres.
Autonomous
Autonomous.
- What are autonomous youth centres, and what debates surround them, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Context Impact and history.
Impact
Impact.
Impact
Impact.
- What does research say about the effects of youth centres and youth work, with findings attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits youth work? action
History
History.
History
History.
- How did youth centres develop from oratories and settlements to modern youth services? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of youth work? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.PLC
- Other names and narrower kinds
- scout hall, Autonomous Youth Centre, Scout centre, national youth friendship center, national youth outdoor learning center, Salesian Youth Centre, youth center in Madona Municipality, Police Citizens Youth Club
What it is Filled
A building or facility providing space, activities and support for young people outside school and home, run by local authorities, churches, voluntary organisations and youth movements, in forms such as municipal youth centres, scout halls and scout centres, Salesian youth centres in the Catholic tradition, autonomous youth centres run by young people themselves, and national centres for youth friendship or outdoor learning; youth centres offer recreation, informal education, counselling and a safe place to meet.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain youth centres and their kinds, relay their organisation, programmes and funding from youth work and social policy sources, describe scout, faith-based and autonomous models, and distinguish youth centres from schools, sports clubs and youth hostels.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Youth-focused
- Informal education
- Diverse providers
- Safe space role
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Contact or message young people from a youth centre outside its safeguarding rules.
- Publish images or details of young people at a centre without consent.
- Confuse youth centres with schools or hostels.
- Hide or downplay a safeguarding concern reported to the agent.
Only with a human decision
- Passing on a safeguarding concern about a young person.
May
- Describe youth centres and the services they offer.
- Help young people find a youth centre and its opening times.
Moral aspects Filled
- Youth centres serve young people who may be vulnerable; safeguarding is the core stake.
- Closures fall hardest on young people with few other safe places.
Who is affected
- Young people
- Youth workers
- Parents and carers
Owners Filled
Steward
The local authority, church or voluntary body that runs the centre.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q47520921 - registry parent class
related
- leisure-oriented infrastructure - in registry terms
- youth organization - or local government
- youth work - and informal education
- youth hostel - which provides lodging
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.youth-center
- Wikidata: Q1302299 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1302299)
Direct properties required Filled
- typical age range: about 11-25 years - varies
- first Salesian oratory: 1841 year - Turin, Don Bosco
- scout centres worldwide: thousands count
Recognition required Filled
- Facility for young people s leisure and support
- Municipal youth centres, scout halls and centres, Salesian youth centres, autonomous youth centres, national youth centres
- Schools educate formally; sports clubs focus on sport; youth hostels provide lodging
- A community building with activity rooms, meeting spaces and sometimes sports facilities.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain kinds
- relay organisation and programmes
- describe models
- distinguish related facilities
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Safeguarding failures
- Funding cuts and closures
- Confusing youth centres with schools or hostels
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Youth work and safeguarding regulations
- Building and fire safety rules
- Funding rules of local authorities and youth policy frameworks
Context of use required Filled
- Providing space and support for young people.
- municipal and local authority youth centres
- scout halls and scout centres
- faith-based centres such as Salesian youth centres
- autonomous and self-managed youth centres
- national youth centres for friendship, exchange and outdoor learning
- drop-in and street-based youth projects
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q1302299: youth center - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Youth center - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should scout centre and autonomous youth centre be separate primary entries?
- How should youth work sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific and national centre types; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q1302299/spec.json