Category: relationships

• How to Start Engaging Children and Youth

  As a seasoned youth worker, I have met my share of “good kids”. You know, the ones who were excited to do activities and eager to please adults? Generally, they are excited at the right times, attentive when they’re supposed to be, and friendly almost all the time. I was not one of those kids […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  July 12, 2013

  adult allies, adults, relationships, youth engagement, Youth Work

• Tall Pedestals for Old People

  There’s a tricky space for adults as we grow up in our community work. Spending all these years working with children and youth, I’m treated with more respect than ever before. Young people quiet when I speak, and older people lean in to listen. My peers recognize the experience I have and the knowledge I’ve […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  August 28, 2012

  adult allies, adultism, children, engagement, generations, relationships, society, youth

• Brand New Youth

  We live in a rapidly changing time with brand new youth right now.  More than ever before, young people are surging ahead in our society, creating great new realities that are vastly different from those of their parents and all the generations before them. This is happening right now. More youth are actively engaging in creating, […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  September 11, 2011

  action, adult allies, civic engagement, community engagement, engagement, popular culture, relationships, social change, society, youth development, youth empowerment, youth engagement, youth leadership, Youth Work