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Authentic Youth Involvement Resources
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Promoting Authentic Youth-Adult Partnerships
Published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation in November 2019, A Framework for Effectively Partnering with Young People describes core components of authentic youth-adult partnerships, which adult behaviors uphold partnership, and questions to assess whether effective practices are in place. The guide is based on the framework used by the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities initiative to bring young people and adults together to solve policy and practice issues affecting youth. Authors emphasize the latest research on adolescent brain plasticity to explain how authentic engagement helps young people heal from trauma and develop new skills.
Access the guide online here: https://www.aecf.org/resources/a-framework-for-effectively-partnering-with-young-people/ |
Homeless Youth in Their Own Words
The latest installment of Chapin Hall’s Voices of Youth Count research series features interviews with homeless youth. Young people’s stories shape recommendations for policy and practice, and are synthesized into distinct, interconnected findings. Authors recommend revisions to the federal RHY Act, broad implementation of trauma-informed care, and developmentally appropriate support tuned to the unique needs of young people.
Access the brief here:
http://voicesofyouthcount.org/brief/missed-opportunities-youth-pathways-through-homelessness-in-america/ |
Q&A: Youth Voice and Ramping Up Solutions
The Chronicle of Social Change interviewed Larry Cohen, director at Point Source Youth and organizer of the third National Symposium to End Youth Homelessness which occurred recently in NYC. Cohen explains how the HIV/AIDS movement informed his approach to tackling homelessness among unaccompanied youth, particularly among populations that are disproportionately affected. Additionally, the interview describes why and how the Symposium spotlights young people with lived experience, attracts not just providers but also funders and government officials, and adopts a celebratory tone.
Access the full interview here:
https://chronicleofsocialchange.org/news-2/domonique-jackson-keynoted-youth-homelessness-convening/35815 |
The Positive Power of Youth Organizing
The Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing aims to promote leadership development among young people of color and youth living in poverty by supporting youth-led social justice initiatives. FCYO’s website features video interviews with young organizers describing ways that involvement impacted their communities and personal development, as well as organizing toolkits and related research.
Find free resources here: https://fcyo.org/info/youth-organizing/ |
Tip Sheet: Do’s and Don’ts for Young Adult Councils
This tip sheet from the Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research offers five suggestions from young people about ways to structure successful youth advisory councils. Framed as practical “do’s and don’ts” these concrete suggestions focus on the kinds of activities, expectations and supports that uphold young people’s ability to lead youth-adult partnerships.
Access the tip sheet here:
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1126&context=pib |
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By Youth For Youth: How to Navigate Emergency Care
Created by young people in the Oregon Trauma Advocates Coalition, this guide describes ways that young people can advocate for and protect themselves when using emergency room or walk-in clinic health services. Based on trauma informed care principles and youth’s lived experiences, the resource includes suggestions on how to communicate needs to health workers, ask about the care being provided, and handle situations that might trigger anxiety or aggression. This resource is available for free in both poster and pocket size versions.
Download the guide here:
https://traumainformedoregon.org/resource/making-voice-heard-suggestions-youth-youth-use-emergency-rooms/
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Engaging Young People in Prevention Campaigns
This Q&A with Kenny Neal Shults focuses on how organizations can collaborate with young people to create video and other digital messaging to support prevention initiatives. Kenny Neal Shults is a comedian and principal for Connected Health Solutions. He has over 20 years of experience working with service organizations to engage vulnerable populations in leveraging the power of digital media for outreach and programming. The Q&A also includes a link to digital media created for one campaign developed in partnership with Shults’ organization.
Access the Q&A here: https://youthcatalytics.org/news/engaging-youth-in-creating-digital-health-messages |
Free Webinar for Young Adults on “Finding Your Voice”
This recorded webinar, facilitated by special education consultant LeDerick Horne, guides young people with intellectual disabilities in thinking about and expressing their future plans. The resource is part of the Intelligent Lives Opening Doors campaign which seeks to make a more inclusive world for youth.
View the webinar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmKxwF6RI6Y&feature=youtu.be |
How to Know if You’re Really Including ‘Youth Voice’
A new brief from Portland State University’s Research and Training Center offers an overview of typical approaches to including young people in organizational planning and decision-making. Instead of focusing on the number of young people ‘at the table’ as a measure of success, adults are encouraged to track the number of decisions made that actually reflect young people’s input. New and existing tools for assessing the quality of youth involvement are described and available in the full article.
Read and download the brief here:
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1230&context=socwork_fac |
Youth Voice on Gender Stereotypes Amplified by Social Media
Using a ‘youth as partners’ approach, pediatric residents in Fresno, CA recently engaged middle and high school students from low-income communities in an international social media campaign to raise awareness about the impacts of gender stereotyping on minority youth. Two-thirds to three-quarters of the nearly 300 students involved reported having experienced pressure to conform to gender stereotypes in their own communities. The project demonstrates how educational technology can boost young people’s voices in an effort to combat harmful stereotypes encountered online.
Learn more here: https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(17)30769-3/fulltext |
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