Category: Actions

• What Makes Modern Youth Leadership Happen?

  

  There are many factors driving Modern Youth Leadership. It is important to understand how these factors work and interact, and when taken as a whole, what they can do to change the world. Here are the factors you need to understand if you’re invested in Modern Youth Leadership. Factors Driving Modern Youth Leadership There are…

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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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• 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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• Youth Engagement in Culture

  This is an exploration of youth engagement in culture, including ways it happens and what it needs in order to occur.

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• Barriers to Youth Involvement

  

  Organizations the Freechild Institute works with are already interested in building youth involvement, so we work closely with them to help them figure out what is needed to succeed at youth involvement. This article shares some of the things we have found.

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• 34 Ways Youth Can Change the World Right Now

  There are a lot of things YOU can do to make a difference! Here’s a list of ways youth can change the world. Each one is linked to a page talking about how it happens and the tools you might need to get it done!

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• Youth Engagement in Democratic Education

  

  By focusing on justice, equality and meaningful experiences, democratic education can be a powerful tool for youth + social change.

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• Adult Ally Toolkit

  

  This is the Freechild Institute Adult Ally Toolkit. It includes tools and resources for adults who want to support young people in substantial ways.

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• What Are Youth Rights?

  

  This is an introduction to the specific rights of youth.

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• Tools for Action

  Are you a young person who is ready to make change in the world? There are skills, ideas, knowledge and more that can help you. Check out these Freechild Institute tools for action!

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