Category: youth engagement
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Part 5: What It All Comes Down To
Part 5: What It All Comes Down To Transformative youth engagement is about building the capacity of individual people to become meaningfully and sustainably connected within themselves and to the world around them. Every person has affective and cognitive scaffolding within them; transformative youth engagement activates those abilities. The simplest way to judge whether you […]
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Part 4: Barriers to Transformative Youth Engagement
Part 4: Barriers to Transformative Youth Engagement The barriers to transformative youth engagement in juvenile justice occur in three ways: Individual barriers, Cultural barriers, and Structural barriers. The individual barriers are shown by youth and adults, and may include attitudes, perspectives and mindsets related to youth engagement. Cultural barriers can include the shared beliefs, common […]
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Part 3: The Roots of Transformation and Moving Into Action
Part 3: The Roots of Transformation and Moving Into Action Youth voice can address a lot of issues throughout the juvenile justice system using a variety of approaches. Some of the juvenile justice system components that transformative youth engagement is happening through include policy, programming, multi-systems approaches and legal defense. The issues youth voice is […]