Category: youth service

• The Time for Youth Engagement is NOW

  Its time to get real about youth engagement. Faced with hard times, we need to speak truth to power. This post is my attempt to acknowledge the obvious. Reading the news lately, its easy to get hopeless if you’re not careful. Federal and state budgets for essential services affecting children and youth are getting slashed, […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  March 19, 2013

  community, social change, youth empowerment, youth engagement, youth service, Youth Voice

• 2013 Seattle Service Learning Symposium

  Join CommonAction and others for the  2013 SEATTLE SERVICE LEARNING SYMPOSIUM Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 8:00-4:00pm At S.T.E.M. at CLEVELAND High School 5511 15TH Avenue South, Seattle, 98108 You’re Invited!  Join School Staff, Community Partners, and National Service Members for Networking, Exploring Development & Implementation of Service Learning, Youth Engagement, Community-School Partnerships… Agenda Includes… A welcome […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  February 11, 2013

  CommonAction, Freechild, Schools, service learning, SoundOut, workshops, youth engagement, youth service, Youth Voice

• Convenient or Inconvenient Youth Voice

  Youth Voice is being thrown around these days as something special, unique, and never wrong. The simple fact is that while all children and youth are powerful beyond measure and important beyond words, Youth Voice is nothing that should be romanticized or pedestaled. It should be integrated, normalized, and mainstreamed, but not worshiped or seen […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  September 25, 2012

  youth empowerment, youth engagement, Youth involvement, youth leadership, youth policy, youth service, Youth Voice, Youth Work