Category: Youth involvement
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A Moral and Ethical Responsibility (for Jackie)
Today I received another spectacular question from Jackie, an executive director of a nonprofit focused on youth involvement in the Northeast. Reflecting on the Freechild Project Measure of Social Change Led By and With Young People, Jackie made an important point about this work: …[I]f our goal is “all community members equally make decisions, take […]
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Questioning “Child-Friendly” Environments
All of the readers of this blog likely rank as “well-meaning,” in the sense that none of us wish ill in our work with young people. Now, its true that I hold some people in contempt of violating that trust, either consciously or unconsciously. Rather than being as bold as I was last week, I […]
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Child-Friendly Environments
Over the last several years my research on Youth Voice has consistently led me to the doorways of a body of work referred to as “child-friendly environments”. This phrase has been applied to a wide variety of elements in the lives of young people, including the physical, structural and cultural surroundings where children and youth […]
Adam F.C. Fletcher 