Our books include unique handbooks, guides, monographs, reports, and other publications. All these titles are available — please send an email to info@freechild.org for more information.
1. The Practice of Youth Engagement
Essential lessons, powerful examples and deep insight for newcomers and longtime practitioners. Diving into the meaning, activities and outcomes of youth engagement, it provides slicing analysis and strong tips. (294 pgs, 2014) $29.95
2. Facing Adultism
This book offers new ways adults can stop their negative attitudes and behaviors towards young people. (190 pgs, 2015) $19.95
3. Steps to Youth Leadership in Modern Times
The new book from internationally recognized expert Adam F.C. Fletcher explores NINE easy yet powerful steps to transform youth leadership today. In never-before shared writing, this book provides practical tools, meaningful analysis, thoughtful examples and real stories, this book shows how, when, why and where youth leadership matters right now. This is a great book for youth and their advocates, teachers, counselors, parents and others. (253 pgs. 2023) Order Here »
4. The Guide to Student Voice, 2nd Edition
With a professional, easy-to-read layout, this short book is packed with useful tips, powerful activities, and great guidance for anyone interested in student voice today! (66 pgs, 2014) $24.99
5. The Freechild Project Youth-Driven Programming Guide
This is an introduction to youth-driven programming for nonprofits, government agencies, and other youth-serving organizations. The booklet gives a definition and compares approaches, and then provides planning tools, evaluations and assessments, and more. It includes the Ladder of Youth Voice, rubrics for assessing youth-driven programming, and links to examples and resources that readers can explore on their own. (38 pgs, 2015) $10.99
6. School Boards of the Future: A Guide to Students as Education Policy-Makers
A manual highlighting examples, tips, promotional information and resources, as well as steps to implement student involvement. It also provides state-by-state profiles of students on school boards across the United States. (54 pages, 2014) $15.00
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7. The Guide to Meaningful Student Involvement
Highlighting a practical framework, important considerations, and real-world examples, this Guide is all about engaging students throughout education. Recommended for anyone interested in student voice, student empowerment, student engagement, or building community in schools. (60 pgs) FREE.
8. SoundOut Guide to Students on Canadian School Boards
Policies, tips and examples of student trustees, student representatives and student members of school boards across Canada. (30 pgs) FREE.
9. Meaningful Student Involvement Deep Assessment
A series of open questions are for individuals or groups to study where and how Meaningful Student Involvement occurs in a school or educational organization. Focused on motivation and culture, it features student and adult readiness, relationships, action, rigor and relevance, sustainability, barriers, and action evaluations. (25 pgs) FREE.
10. SoundOut Student Engagement Conditions Assessment
An intensive, open-ended assessment designed to guide groups through basic, critical and advanced conversations about student engagement in schools. Good for small group or class projects. (10 pgs) FREE.
11. Meaningful Student Involvement Planning Guide
Key questions providing opportunities for projects, programs and classes to develop and sustain student/adult partnerships. (15 pgs) FREE.
12. Guide to Cooperative Games for Social Change, 2nd Edition
An introductory guide for young people, youth workers, teachers, and others interested in making social change engaging and relevant to all participants. (20 pgs) FREE.
13. Meaningful Student Involvement Resource Guide
This guide provides descriptions and annotations for dozens of publications, toolkits, organizations, and websites that support student voice throughout education. (35 pgs) FREE.
14. Meaningful Student Involvement Research Guide
This booklet can give advocates a “leg up” in their research needs by illustrating the breadth of research available about engaging student voice throughout education. This Guide highlights 14 research studies and includes a useful listing of research available. (36 pgs) FREE.
15. Stories of Meaningful Student Involvement
A collection of examples of meaningful student involvement in action in schools. These anecdotes illustrate various approaches to engaging student voice in school by exploring the applications of engaging students throughout education in dozens of diverse schools. (40 pgs) FREE.
16. Meaningful Student Involvement: Guide to Students as Partners in School Change
Highlighting a practical framework, important considerations, and real-world examples, this Guide is all about engaging students throughout education. Recommended for anyone interested in student voice, student empowerment, student engagement, or building community in schools. (28 pgs) FREE.
17. Student Voice and Bullying: A SoundOut Focus Paper
This short paper the connections between student voice and bullying, including the roots, the implications, and the outcomes. (10 pgs) FREE.
18. Meaningful Student Involvement Deep Assessment
A series of open questions are for individuals or groups to study where and how Meaningful Student Involvement occurs in a school or educational organization. Focused on motivation and culture, it features student and adult readiness, relationships, action, rigor and relevance, sustainability, barriers, and action evaluations. (25 pgs) FREE.
19. The Freechild Project Youth Action Guide
A publication created to promote taking practical actions to change the world. Includes quick, easy reading that can help young people or adults think about how to find what needs to change, create programs to make that change happen, and promote Youth Action throughout their communities. (52 pgs) FREE.
20. A Short Introduction to Youth Engagement
A short introduction to the broad concept of youth engagement that moves beyond seeing young peoples’ connectedness as something adults cause, and towards acknowledging it as something young people naturally do. Answers the essential questions of what, how, when, and where youth engagement happens. (22 pgs) FREE.
21. A Short Introduction to Youth Engagement in the Economy
This guide is a collection of essays addressing youth employment, youth entrepreneurship, youth training, youth banking, youth programs, school classes and other activities designed to promote youth engagement in the economy. (81 pgs) FREE.
22. A Short Introduction to Youth Rights
An easy-to-read booklet highlighting the basics of youth rights for adults and young people. Includes a glossary, resources, and more. (14 pgs) FREE.
23. Guide to Students on School Boards
A short how-to focused on roles for students on boards of education at the local and state levels. Includes tips, legal info, resources, and more. (14 pgs) FREE.
24. A Short Guide to Holistic Youth Development
This is the first easy-to-read publication ever written about this vital topic. Youth, youth workers, and others will benefit from reading this powerful, positive approach to working with young people. (28 pgs) FREE.
25. The Freechild Project Youth Engagement Workshop Guide
Twenty-four hands-on, interactive workshop outlines that youth and adults can use to teach youth or adults about how to successfully engage young people. Workshops focus on skill-development affecting leadership, voice, and engagement, including workshops on communication, planning, and other topics. (71 pgs) FREE.
26. Participação Juvenil: Guia de Oficinas
Resultado do trabalho de participação com jovens, nesta publicação Adam Fletcher e o Projeto Freechild organizaram diversas atividades de grupos, apresentando 24 oficinas que buscam ajudar grupos de aprendizagem a explorar diferentes aspectos do engajamento da juventude. Todos os exercícios são interativos e focados em aplicações práticas, para jovens ou adultos. Há também orientações sobre como facilitar oficinas de engajamento dos jovens e instruções detalhadas para realizar cada oficina. (Autor: Adam Fletcher; Tradução: Iara Haasz; Revisão: Gleice Regina Guerra e José Vicente Guerra Junior; 71 pgs) FREE.
28. Washington Youth Voice Handbook
An introductory guide that lays out what, why, who, when, where, and how youth voice happens in diverse communities across Washington State. The handbook includes a Youth Voice Assessment, the Washington Youth Voice Directory, and a resource section. (102 pgs) FREE.
29. The Freechild Project Guide to Social Change Led By and With Young People
Centering on the “Cycle of Youth Engagement,” this publication is a summary of the social change issues and actions addressed by and with young people around the world. (17 pgs) FREE.
30. Meaningful Student Involvement Idea Guide for Schools
A short summary of practical, powerful, and positive ways to engage students as partners throughout the education system. Drawing examples from research and experience, it shares ideas for educators who want to try to meaningfully involve students. (13 pgs) FREE.
31. Firestarter Youth Power Curriculum Guide
A hands-on guide to youth engagement in social change. Includes sections on motivation, skill-building, issue awareness, action planning, and resources. (40 pgs) FREE.