Youth Led Programs: as Change Agents

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Youth-Led Programs: Embracing Youth as Change Agents

SS/HS Conference Jessica Collura, PhD

June 6, 2017

Objectives

Participants will be able to: ? Distinguish youth-led programs from other

forms of youth community engagement ? Explain the evidence-base that informs

youth-led programs ? Provide examples of youth-led programs

that utilize the Youth Empowerment Conceptual Framework (Holden et al., 2004) and the Strategic Prevention Framework (SAMSHA)

Collura, J. J. (2017, June). Youth-led programs: Embracing Youth as Change Agents. Athens, OH: Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University.

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Opening Discussion

What does youth engagement look like in your community or organization?

Models of Youth Community Engagement ? Service Learning ? Youth Advisory Boards ? Youth in Governance ? Youth-Led Programs

Collura, J. J. (2017, June). Youth-led programs: Embracing Youth as Change Agents. Athens, OH: Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University.

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Overarching Goal of YLP in Ohio

Young people will collectively engage in a planning process to create and implement a

strategic plan that uses evidence-based strategies to create community-level change.

Defining Youth-Led Programs

Community-based process in which young people determine a problem of practice, identify the root causes of the problem, and select and implement evidence-based strategies to address those root causes

Collura, J. J. (2017, June). Youth-led programs: Embracing Youth as Change Agents. Athens, OH: Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University.

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Defining Youth-Led Programs

Community-based process in which young people: 1) determine a problem of practice 2) identify the root causes of the problem 3) select and implement evidence-based

strategies to address those root causes

Overarching Goal of YLP in Ohio

Youth Empowerment

Collura, J. J. (2017, June). Youth-led programs: Embracing Youth as Change Agents. Athens, OH: Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University.

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Youth Empowerment

The ability to influence social and political systems that affect our lives

Collura, J. J. (2017, June). Youth-led programs: Embracing Youth as Change Agents. Athens, OH: Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University.

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Youth-Led

Adults "Getting out of the way"

*Slide Credit: Katie Richards-Schuster from University of Michigan

Youth-Led

Adults Telling Youth What to Do

*Slide Credit: Katie Richards-Schuster from University of Michigan

Collura, J. J. (2017, June). Youth-led programs: Embracing Youth as Change Agents. Athens, OH: Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University.

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