Category: Tools
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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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Youth Mainstreaming Toolkit
Freechild is committed to engaging young people throughout the organizations, agencies, programs and activities that affect them most. In order to be most useful to the people who make decisions in these places, we’re making our popular book, The Freechild Project Youth Mainstreaming Guide, available online free for the first time.
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Potential Youth Mainstreaming Activities
There are many activities that can be part of your organization or community’s Youth Mainstreaming strategy. They include the following activities.
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Next Steps for Youth Mainstreaming
Taking Action for Youth Mainstreaming is essential. The following suggestions, drawn from The Freechild Institute’s experiences and research, can help leaders get started with this effective and cutting-edge strategy.
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Critical Elements of Youth Mainstreaming
The critical elements of youth mainstreaming don’t vary according to the time, place and people involved. Following are some of the most critical things The Freechild Institute has learned from their experience and research.
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Understanding the Strategy of Youth Mainstreaming
Youth Mainstreaming is a comprehensive strategy for integrating youth throughout the operations of an organization or community. Because of the complexity of organizations and communities, it can be essential to spell out exactly what Youth Mainstreaming is and what it can do.
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What Is Youth Mainstreaming?
Youth Mainstreaming is a strategy for integrating youth into every aspect of your organization or community, including the individual perspectives, shared cultures, and throughout the systems and structures affecting young people everyday.
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