Articles from January 2018
Recruiting Youth: A Strategy Guide from Everyday Democracy
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
What does it take to not just listen to youth, but to involve this in the planning and visioning stages of a project? Involving young people in a coalition, and getting youth to come to events and have their voice be heard, requires reflection on a wide range of issues. This resource is helpfully organized as a series of challenges that are all paired with specific strategies to employ. Below are five of those challenges with one sample strategy. Notice that engaging youth often requires you to rethink your own vision, priorities, and assumptions.