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!
Toolkits
Each of the following toolkits features more than 20 resources! Check them out to find information on how to change the world.
- Youth Action Toolkit: A powerful set of tools for young people to inspire, motivate and transform the world they live in.
- Youth Engagement Toolkit: Designed to help young people choose positive, powerful things that will change the world.
- Youth Voice Toolkit: Focused on fostering meaningful expressions of the wisdom, knowledge, ideas and opinions of young people.
- Youth Involvement Toolkit: Meant to create empowered, sustained roles for young people in organizations.
- Youth Mainstreaming Toolkit: Created to transform the roles of young people throughout society.
- Youth Rights Guide: Built for young people to learn, build and grow youth rights through advocacy and action.
- Facing Adultism Toolkit: Designed to engage young people and adults together in actively defeating bias towards adults and discrimination against youth.
- Adult Allies Toolkit: Resources for youth workers, educators and others who support young people.
Info Pages
Are you ready to learn more about the most important strategies for youth to change the world? Check out our info pages!
- Youth Engagement with Adults
- Youth Engagement with Censorship
- Youth Engagement with Child Labor
- Youth Engagement with Commercialism
- Youth Engagement in Community Development
- Youth Engagement in Community Youth Development
- Youth Engagement with Corporal Punishment
- Youth Engagement with Critical Thinking
- Youth Engagement with Curfews
- Youth Engagement in Democracy
- Youth Engagement in Economics
- Youth Engagement in Experiential Learning
- Youth Engagement with Food
- Youth Engagement in Foster Care
- Youth Engagement with Free Speech
- Youth Engagement with Gender Equity
- Youth Engagement in Globalization
- Youth Engagement in Government
- Youth Engagement in Gun Control
- Youth Engagement with Hip Hop
- Youth Engagement in Holistic Youth Development
- Youth Engagement with Homelessness
- Youth Engagement in Homeschooling
- Youth Engagement in Intergenerational Partnerships
- Youth Engagement in International Development
- LGBTTQQI Youth
- Youth and Media
- Youth and National Service
- Youth and Nonprofits
- Youth, Parents, Parenting and Families
- Youth Engagement in Nonviolence and Peace
- Youth Engagement in Personal Development
- Youth Engagement in Politics
- Youth Engagement with Poverty
- Youth Engagement in Project-Based Learning
- Youth Engagement in Public Health
- Youth Engagement in Racism
- Youth Engagement in School Reform
- Youth Engagement in Service Learning
- Youth Engagement in Sex Education
- Youth Engagement with Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault and Sex Trafficking
- Youth Engagement in Student Rights in Schools
- Youth Engagement in Teaching
- Youth Engagement in the Arts
- Youth Engagement in the Environment
- Youth Engagement in Youth Suffrage
- Youth Engagement in Unschooling
- Youth Engagement in Youth Empowerment
- Youth Engagement in Youth Programs
- Youth Engagement in Youth Empowerment
- Youth Engagement in Youth Equity
- Youth Engagement in Youth Infusion
- Youth Engagement in Youth Involvement
- Youth Engagement in Youth Leadership
- Youth Engagement in Youth Liberation
- Youth Engagement in Youth Mainstreaming
- Youth Engagement in Youth Participation
- Youth Engagement in Social Entrepreneurship
Youth Activities
Young people around the world are taking serious, meaningful and powerful action to create change at home, in their community, at school and other places, too! Following are tip sheets on some of the ways this is happening right now.
- Youth Action Councils
- Youth as Activists
- Youth as Activity Leaders
- Youth as Advisors
- Youth as Advocates
- Youth as Artists
- Youth as Board Directors
- Youth as Consumers
- Youth as Decision-Makers
- Youth as Designers
- Youth as Evaluators
- Youth as Facilitators
- Youth as Farmers
- Youth as Grantmakers and Philanthropists
- Youth as Lobbyists
- Youth as Makers and Producers
- Youth as Media Makers
- Youth as Mediators
- Youth as Mentors
- Youth as Nation Builders
- Youth as Planners
- Youth as Policy-Makers
- Youth as Politicians
- Youth as Recruiters
- Youth as Researchers
- Youth as Specialists
- Youth as Teachers
- Youth as Trainers
- Youth as Volunteers
- Youth as Voters
- Youth as Workers
- Youth Community Organizers
- Youth Democratic Education
- Youth Forums
- Youth Popular Education
- Youth Summits
- Youth-Led Programs
- Youth-Led Project-Based Learning
- Youth-Led Service Learning
Activities and More
- Finding Resources to Change the World
- 34 Ways Youth Can Change the World Right Now
- 4 Elements Youth Need for Social Change
- Youth Action Reading
- Youth Action Planning
- Spectrum of Youth Action
- Start Anywhere and Go Everywhere
- Stories of Youth Changing the World
- Social Justice Links
- Measure of Social Change Led By and With Young People
- Quotes about Critical Pedagogy
- Quotes about Youth
- Activity: Crossing the Line
- Reflection Activities
- The End of Grades and Grading
- Freechild Institute Glossary
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