Category: Strategies
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Voices of Youth in Crisis
Youth in crisis are young people who face imbalanced challenges due to circumstances beyond their control. Through the concern of international, national, state and local governments around the world, the voices of these youth are being engaged like never before. Few people are talking about how that happens though.
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Youth Engagement in Youth Infusion
The term youth infusion was coined by expert and Freechild Project advisor Wendy Lesko, who says the term summarizes “where young people are involved in every conceivable way — as volunteers and paid community organizers, as facilitators and trainers, as conference planners, and as full-fledged members on a board of directors.”
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The Freechild Institute Youth Voice Toolkit
Use the Freechild Institute Youth Voice Toolkit to find some of the tools, examples and resources we have created for young people to change the world in positive, powerful ways!
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Youth Engagement in Youth Leadership
The Freechild Institute supports positive, powerful youth leadership throughout society.
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ALL Youth Are Already Engaged
Many adults don’t understand what youth engagement actually is. This article explores alternate visions.
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Freechild Logic Model
The Freechild Logic Model is a graphic map that shows readers the ways our activities, resources, outputs, outcomes, and impact, can affect young people and the adult allies who support them.
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The End of Grades and Grading
The practice of teachers assigning students letter or number grades to illustrate how students are performing is an outmoded method, left over the times when schools were regarded as factories, teachers were supervisors, and students were workers. Not only is grading just outdated, research has shown that grading students is damaging as well. Research has…
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Youth Engagement in Activist Learning
Activist Learning is an intentional strategy for creating knowledge characterized by taking action to realize just relationships that transform unequal power structures in our personal, social, political, environmental, spiritual, and economic lives. This page describes what it is, how it happens, where it occurs and what difference it can make.
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Youth Engagement in Project-Based Learning
Project-based learning can give young people meaningful opportunities to move beyond negative participation and become meaningfully involved.
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Youth Engagement in Community Youth Development
Young people do not exist in a bubble or a vacuum. Instead, they are members of the communities, families and societies they grow up in, whether or not that is recognized by adults. One strategy for youth to change the world acknowledges this connection. Community youth development weaves the growth of young people as they naturally…
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