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Introducing Comprehensive Youth Engagement
It is normal, appropriate and necessary for young people to choose the same things over and over again. At the Freechild Institute, we refer to this as youth engagement, and for over two decades we have been working with youth and adults across the United States and around the world to foster empowering youth engagement in communities, organizations, and their own lives.
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Protected: BBBSA Youth Voice Project Group Call Prep (2022-2023)
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Youth Voice at School
There are almost countless ways that every student shares youth voice everyday at school. Are adults ready to listen? This article shares what youth voice at school is, what youth voice at school does, and whether youth voice at school can make a difference in learning, teaching and leadership.
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Youth Engagement is for the Whole Child
Established in 2001, the Freechild Institute for Youth Engagement works towards ensuring that each young person in every community is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged (from the ASCD Whole Child Approach).
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Recruiting Youth
For more than 20 years, Freechild has been supporting youth-serving organizations around the world as they work to support youth programs of all kinds. Here are some of the things we’ve learned about recruiting youth.
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Critical Questions for Adult Allies
Following are some critical questions Freechild has identified for adult allies. These are based on our 20+ years of experience training adults and supporting youth who are determined to transform society through youth/adult partnerships and more.
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Freechild Institute Youth Involvement Toolkit
The Freechild Institute has supported hundreds of organizations as they have developed purposeful programs focused on youth involvement, and we want to share the tools we’ve made with you.
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Freechild Youth Involvement Evaluation
Freechild designed the following Youth Involvement Evaluation after working with more than 100 organizations across the United States and around the world. We have found these ten areas to be the most important to consider when evaluating youth involvement: feedback, measurements, motives, numbers, breadth, formality, impacts, reporting, and sharing.
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Youth Involvement Success Stories
These are stories of successful youth involvement from across the United States.
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Planning for Youth Involvement
Learning about youth involvement and doing it are very important. However, it’s important to understand why things work and why they do not. One way you can do that is by planning for youth involvement. The Freechild Youth Involvement Planning Tool can help you plan youth involvement in your program, organization, community or beyond.
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