Category: youth empowerment

• Promote Youth Engagement in Organizations

  How to Promote Youth Engagement in Organizations 1) Share Youth Engagement. Talk with your supervisor, Executive Director, board members, and other decision-makers. Build support by talking to staff members about youth engagement. Train young people about youth engagement, why it matters, and how they can experience it more. Research resources that might help different people […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  November 15, 2013

  adult allies, afterschool, government, nonprofits, policy, programming, school, youth empowerment, youth engagement

• Adult-Driven Youth Voice

  Youth Voice is any expression of any young person anywhere, all the time, about anything. It doesn’t depend on adult approval, it doesn’t need specific spaces or energies, and is always present wherever young people are. The question generally is whether adults want to hear what’s being said. If a young person is talking in front of […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  November 11, 2013

  critical thinking, organizational development, tip sheet, youth empowerment, Youth involvement, Youth Voice

• Share the Word!

  Help spread the word about my latest book, Ending Discrimination Against Young People. You can share this post, or the webpage, or the Amazon.com page with your friends, family, and colleagues.  You can also interview me for your blog, write an article about the book, or line me up with any of your contacts to […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  October 29, 2013

  adult allies, adultism, Books, discrimination, government, nonprofits, publicity, Schools, social change, society, youth empowerment