Category: youth engagement

• Part 2: Transformative Youth Engagement, Not Reform

  Part 2: Transformative Youth Engagement, Not Reform Rachel Jackson is a youth advocate in California who once talked about the juvenile justice system, saying, “Our youth are not failing the system; the system is failing our youth. Ironically, the very youth who are being treated the worst are the young people who are going to […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  January 29, 2018

  Adam Fletcher’s Topics, Juvenile justice, systems change, youth engagement

• Part 1: New Juvenile Justice and Transformative Youth Engagement

  Part 1: New Juvenile Justice and Transformative Youth Engagement Theft, vandalism, violence and other crimes plague communities across the United States today. Low-income neighborhoods, communities of color, rural towns and other areas around the nation are disproportionately affected by these realities. The young people who are needed to restore, replenish, reinvigorate and reimagine these places […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  January 29, 2018

  Adam Fletcher’s Topics, law, youth engagement

• The Excitement of Project Based Learning

  

  Project Based Learning has become an essential arrow in the quiver of youth development and education. But are we doing it right? As I present on youth engagement through Project Based Learning, I’m reminded of research I’ve done on youth-driven programming across the country. So often, when they’re leading projects, youth choose to take action […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  December 1, 2017

  activities, Adam Fletcher’s Topics, learning, professional developement, programming, projects, youth engagement