HURT 2.0:
Inside the World of Today’s
URBAN Teenagers
Chap Clark
Professor of Youth, Family and Culture
www.fuller.edu
HURT 2.0:
It’s been a ride,
started in a school…
HURT 2.0:
t’s been a ride,
started in a school…
and has
continued to
drive me
Review for some,
new for others…
Growing
up starts
young…
Why I got into this…
“The HURT guy”
Development and youth ministry…
When is someone an “adult”?
What does this mean
for many urban kids?
Understanding growing up…
Individuation:
Individuation
and the
The process
of Adolescence
becoming a
Three
Tasks of
unique person
• Identity – Who am I?
• Autonomy – POWER
Do I matter?
• Belonging – Does anybody care?
Understanding growing up…
The overall process
Timing and duration
Timing and Duration
Puberty
Pre-1900
1970-1980s
Today
Culture
14.5
16
13
18/20
11/12
mid-20s
Understanding growing up…
The overall process
Timing and duration
Changing Stages
Changing Stages
1930s-1990s
Independent
13
Dependent
14-15
18-20
Interdependent
Teenage
brain
“If you think of the teenage brain as a car,
today's adolescents acquire an accelerator a
long time before they can steer and brake.”
- WSJ, What’s wrong with the teenage mind?“ Alison Gopnik, January 28, 2012
Changing Stages
Independent
12
Dependent
14-15
19-21
1990s-2000s
mid-20s
Interdependent
Changing Stages
Independent
12
14-15
2000-Today
mid
19-21
mid-20s
early-30s?
Dependent
Emerging
Adulthood
J. J. Arnett
Interdependent
Understanding growing up…
The overall process
Timing and duration
Changing Stages
Society’s response to kids
I. The History and Trajectory of Youth Ministry
Adults and kids
An overview of research on kids:
•
What data shows
us…
Adolescence itself has changed
• Urban Kids have been abandoned
• Less adult support for kids
• More stress, pain than ever
How kids have responded to ABANDONMENT
Across the board, this is the MOST
STRESSED generation in history
Cultural reality?
An exponential loss of
Social Capital from
those who are
necessary in the lives
of our kids
From fragmentation to
atomization
How kids have
responded to
ABANDONMENT
The Cost:
How kids have responded to ABANDONMENT
They live out of multiple identities
How kids have responded to ABANDONMENT
The “successful” kids learn to adapt
How kids have responded to ABANDONMENT
Peers and friendships
Response to URBAN HURTing Kids
What a child needs:
1. Family Influence
2. Healthy Attachment
What every kid needs:
Family Influence
12
14-15
19-21
Family Safety and Stability
mid-20s
What every kid needs:
Family Influence
12
Gentleness
Maternal
Style
Attachment
14-15
19-21
Comfort
Paternal Style
Attachment
Family Safety and Stability
mid-20s
Hope
Communal
Attachment
For most there are holes in the net…
Childhood
Attachment
Youth
Professional
Family Safety and Stability
Community
Attachment
For most there are holes in the net…
Childhood
Attachment
Family
Friend
Teacher/
Coach
Ext
Family
Youth
Professional
Small
Group
5 to 1 Project:
Family Safety and Stability
A Community for
Every Kid
Community
Attachment
HURT 2.0:
CARING FOR TODAY’S KIDS:
CHANGING HOW WE DO WHAT
WE DO TO SERVE AND LOVE IN
TODAY’S CULTURE
HURT 2.0:
What is life like for urban kids today?
(Overview of the Research)
What are their most basic needs?
(Overview of Development)
What is our response?
(Overview of Response)
Life Today:
Extended adolescence
Basic Needs:
To find a safe place to land
Ministry Response:
Biblical discipleship vs. shaming
and manipulation
Life Today:
Lack of Social Capital
Basic Needs:
Supportive adults and systems
Ministry Response:
Trained (and committed)
volunteer leaders
Life Today:
Weirdness of adaptation
Basic Needs:
Empowered to explore life
Ministry Response:
Provide voice and opportunities
Life Today:
Morality? Really… Morals??
Basic Needs:
Find a moral compass
Ministry Response:
Recast ethical teaching (Modeling)
Life Today:
(Kids) At the Margins
Basic Needs:
Broader exposure/life experience
Ministry Response:
Invite to agency in kingdom
Life Today:
The REAL SCOOP on lasting faith
Basic Needs:
To embrace their own spiritual journey
Ministry Response:
Move toward adoption as the goal
of youth ministry