The importance of the paper is determined by the fact that the development of digital technologies is currently one of the main priorities of any country, both at the highest political level and at the federal and regional ones. The introduction of digital initiatives into the education system leads to their reforming, which has a direct influence on all subjects of the educational process. The goal of the study was to investigate the characteristics of the value orientations of student youth in the context of the digital transformation of the higher education institution. The research methods comprised theoretical and methodological analyses of the problem, empirical research methods (testing, interviewing and a survey), an educational experiment and methods of mathematical statistics. The results of the study include a description of the value framework structure of the personality of student youth (values and meanings) in the era of digital transformation. In addition, as a result of the study, the authors of the paper designed and tested a programme of additional education for students, aimed at developing the value orientations of the ‘digital personality’. The materials of the paper can be useful for the introduction into the educational process in the system of higher and secondary vocational education.   Keywords: Value orientations, student youth, global risks and challenges, information and educational environment of a higher education institution, digital transformation of society.

Purpose of the study: The purpose of the article is to substantiate the features of organizational and methodical directions of the programs' complex for creative development and social adaptation of modern adolescents in difficult situations. Methodology:The study is based on the analysis of somatic and psychological changes taking place in the process of becoming a teenager, which are reflected in the biological, mental and cognitive processes. The identified components determined the grounds for the development of the structure and mechanisms of childhood social risk management.Results: It is shown that the understanding of somatic and psychological changes occurring in the process of a teenager formation, which is reflected in the biological, mental, cognitive processes, is the basis for the development of the structure and mechanisms for childhood social risks' management in the course of an integrative program of any profile. Organizational aspects of preparation and carrying out of actions within such programs are defined. Provisions defining immanent social teaching and educational effects, including prevention of the deviant behavior, increase of educational results' level, growth of teenagers' cognitive interest to self-development and self-education, increase of teenagers' motivation to active and initiative inclusion in development of the program content are allocated. The scientific-methodical and pedagogical experience of the organization of exit integrative programs, the use of pedagogical strategies of which allows achieving positive dynamics of teenagers' creative development trajectory and social adaptation is briefly described. Applications of this study:Suggested by the author's program increases the growth of teenagers' cognitive interest to selfdevelopment and self-education, increases the teenagers' motivation and may be used by psychologists and teachers in educational system of all levels.Novelty/Originality of this study: It is proved that the understanding of somatic, cognitive, social changes in the process of a teenager's formation and compliance with certain organizational rules of activities that take into account the specifics of this age period, increase the motivation of adolescents, their involvement in the development of the program's content, stimulate the growth of cognitive interest of adolescents to self-development and self-education.