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The Laidlaw Foundation promotes positive youth development through inclusive youth engagement in the arts, environment and in community.
List of Resources: Other Publications
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A guide intended for community and organizational actors who would like to integrate young people ages 12 to 25 within their communities by allowing these young people to actively participate in decisions affecting them and allowing them to play a more influential role.
Based on teh McConnell Foundation's experience, this paper discusses the design, implementation and evaluation of a complex, emerging initiative. It explores the diversity of strategies – healing, empowering, engaging, and organizing – that community organizations can adopt for involving marginalized young people in community development activities. Some vital lessons were learned: creating authentic spaces for intergenerational learning and action stretches individuals out of their comfort zones and challenges mainstream organizations’ governance structures and tolerance for risk. As well, breakthroughs at the policy and structural level are usually preceded by widespread behavioural and cultural shifts.