youth engagement – Page 4 – Adam F.C. Fletcher

Youth Engagement On Purpose

When youth engagement happens, does it happen on purpose, with intention and by design, or is it simply an organic, authentic personal experience that can’t be forced by outside sources? Youth-serving programs, projects and organizations constantly wrestle with how youth engagement happens. Through my years as a line-level youth worker, evaluator and consultant, I’ve found that theContinue reading “Youth Engagement On Purpose”

Youth Engagement in Ohio

OPEC Youth Engagement Seminar 2018 Adam Fletcher

There are learnings about youth engagement everywhere there are young people, and every learning is different and unique, as well as similar and familiar. For the last few days, I’ve been at Miami University in Ohio learning about youth engagement with adult practitioners here. This is the at OPEC (Ohio Promoting WEllness & ReCovery) Conference,Continue reading “Youth Engagement in Ohio”

Youth Engagement at Home

These are the Principles of Youth Parent Partnerships, created by a group of 500 youth in Durham, North Carolina in 1998.

Youth engagement starts at home. This post offers some of my thoughts about that reality, as well as steps to ensuring that youth engagement happens in your family. I also share some of the experiences I’ve had with youth engagement at home. Basic Thoughts I’ve started defining the word engagement as choosing the same thing overContinue reading “Youth Engagement at Home”