Category: activities
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10 Steps to Planning Programs With Youth
Planning youth programs for children and youth is tricky. Stuck without enough time to plan or strict guidelines for curriculum delivery, youth program workers can feel powerless over what they do with the young people they serve. In my own experience working in the field for more than a decade, I had this experience continually. […]
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Leadership from Youth Today
Last week, I facilitated a conversation with youth from one of our programs in Compton, California, and another in Preston, United Kingdom. More than 20 young people ages 11 through 19 participated, all with one thing in common: They are working to change the world right now.
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Systems of Youth Engagement
Our society is filled with systems. A lot of them affect youth. A system is any group of coherent connections resulting in a predictable result. Whether we’re talking about obvious systems like education, health care and juvenile justice, or less tangible systems like culture and families, it is important to understand how each of these […]