Category: Articles
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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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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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Youth Involvement Success Stories
These are stories of successful youth involvement from across the United States.
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How To Involve Youth
These are some of the ways to start youth involvement in your organization, community, event, or beyond.
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Youth Involvement Bibliography
These publications have informed Freechild Institute’s work on youth involvement in many areas, including youth civic engagement, child-friendly communities, community youth development, and much more.
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Fostering Youth Involvement
For more than 20 years, Freechild has supported youth-serving organizations in establishing, empowering and transforming youth involvement programs. This article highlights the five steps we share to do that. Nike, Levi’s, and a lot of other brands that sell things to youth have realized that the secret to marketing to youth is personalization: Let them […]
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Youth Involvement as a Kludge
Freechild defines youth involvement as any deliberate way to include youth in organizations. We believe youth engagement happens anytime youth choose the same thing over and over. There is a difference between the two.
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The Logic of Youth Involvement
In order to foster youth involvement, you have to help other people become motivated. Here are twelve ways to answer the question of why youth involvement.
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Freechild.org Directory
This is a listing of every page on the Freechild Institute website, freechild.org. For more information contact us.
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Adults With Learner Mind
Learner mind is the experience of staying open, honest, humble and accepting of opportunities to learn, examine, critique and explore who we are, how we are and what we do in life. Adults with learner mind are committed to learning from young people as well as other adults.
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