What is Youth Engagement?

Youth Engagement happens anytime young people choose the same thing over and over. It can include social activities, emotional states, cultural experiences, educational events, and much, much more! Anytime any young person experiences sustained connections anywhere in their life, they are engaged.

Youth engagement can happen throughout the lives of children and youth, including within themselves, in the immediate world around them, and throughout society in general.

You might have a lot of questions about youth engagement. Some of the things we most commonly answer include:

• What Is Youth Engagement?
• What Isn’t Youth Engagement?
• Who is Youth Engagement For?
• What Are Youth Engaged In?
• How Can I See Youth Engagement?
• Why Does Youth Engagement Happen?
• Where Does Youth Engagement Happen?
• How Can I Get Youth Engaged?
• How Can I Engage Youth?
• How Can I Support Youth Engagement?
• How Do We Sustain Youth Engagement?
• What Prevents Youth Engagement?
• How Can We See Where Youth Engagement Already Happens?

The sustained connections young people make can be emotional, psychological, or cognitive and can happen personally and socially.

You have entered Freechild Institute’s Youth Engagement Toolkit. In this resource collection, you can find a variety of articles about a lot of issues related to youth engagement. Contact us to find what we can do for you!

You Might Like…

• Youth Involvement Toolkit
• Adultism Toolkit
• Youth Voice Tools

Elsewhere Online

• The Practice of Youth Engagement by Adam Fletcher
• An Introduction to Youth Engagement in the Economy by Adam Fletcher
• A Unique Guide to Youth Engagement by Adam Fletcher
• The Freechild Project Youth Engagement Workshop Guide by Adam Fletcher

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