Category: Issues
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The Basics of Meaningful Youth Involvement
These are the basics of meaningful youth involvement by Adam F.C. Fletcher for the Freechild Institute for Youth Engagement.
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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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Youth Engagement in Mental Health
Young people are purposefully engaging with the topic of mental health like never before. This page shows how it happens and what is needed.
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Youth Engagement in Democracy
Young people around the world are working to build, support, promote and transform democracy. This page highlights how to do that and what they need to get it done.
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Youth Engagement with Adults
Young people live in an adult world. Youth and adults constantly interact, react and have transactions with each other. Reliant on adults for basic needs, advanced needs, and most wants in-between, for a long time children and youth were forced to accept whatever adults gave them. However, more than ever before, adults are recognizing that young…
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Youth Engagement in Intergenerational Partnerships
There’s a powerful space where young people and adults can form meaningful, deliberate relationships across generations. Opportunities for youth and intergenerational partnerships can happen throughout community settings, for cultural, educational, social, business, religious and other purposes.
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Introduction to Youth/Adult Partnerships
The Freechild Institute works with nonprofits, government agencies and other organizations to support equitable youth/adult partnerships to improve communities, learning and empowerment for everyone.
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Facing Adultism Toolkit
The Freechild Institute raises awareness and takes action to face adultism throughout society.
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Adultism in Democratic Education
It is from this place of warm interaction, deep investment, and soul-filled appreciation that I share my concerns about adultism in democratic education.
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Youth Engagement in Youth Suffrage
We must eliminate the voting age entirely. For almost 20 years, Freechild has forwarded this idea.
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