Resources
Resources for making programs and projects accessible to all youth
“Break the Rules: How Ground Rules Can Hurt Us,” by Daniel Hunter, Training for Change. “Workshop 10: Jargon Flags”, “Workshop 11: Power, Trust & Respect”, and “Workshop 12: Ground Rules” in The Freechild Project Youth Engagement Workshop Guide.
Good Practices
Use arts-based programming to engage a broader spectrum of youth
There is, more often than not, a connection between arts-based approaches and social media for public engagement. Often campaigns will have produced some kind of logo, symbol, or tool that acts as a quick visual reminder of messaging or cause/purpose. For example, the white wristband was internationally known as the Read more…
Good Practices
Sustain youth engagement by fostering meaningful connections and relationships
Educators, policymakers, community leaders, and service providers have the opportunity to impart youth with the skills, knowledge, abilities, and opportunities to become active participants in influential decision-making settings. The main approach to sustain youth engagement is by placing youth in the centre of those initiatives (Institute for Community Research, ICR). Read more…
Good Practices
Support youth as they take care of themselves and each other
Taking care of ourselves and each other was a topic that we felt was essential to cover in our discussion of youth-based public engagement because, as author Michael Albert says, “if social change isn’t fun, the probability that people will keep trying to do it through hard times and over Read more…
Good Practices
Provide youth with opportunities to develop an anti-oppressive lens
In general, ensuring a good spectrum of gender, race, and class representation in organizing is more effective because groups make better decisions and are better able to reach out to diverse audiences when the group itself is diverse. When there is diversity and buy-in from these groups at the highest Read more…