Engaging Youth
You are in the Engaging Youth section of the Casey Foundation Knowledge Center, which offers resources that are either published or funded by the Casey Foundation. Resources address making youth a part of the process in changing communities.
See also Our Work: Community Change, an overview of the Casey Foundation's investment in this issue.
See all resources on Community Change in the Knowledge Center.
Understanding the State of Knowledge of Youth Engagement Financing and Sustainability
2008
Published by The Finance Project with funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, this report provides critical research and analysis to build the knowledge base on the variety and effectiveness of existing youth engagement approaches and puts forth what is known about the costs, financing, and sustainability of these approaches. This report also profiles several youth engagement programs that have implemented a variety of strategies to finance and sustain their work.
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Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities for CIVIC PARTICIPATION
2006
This fact sheet offers a quick source for analysis and strategies related to issues of inequity surrounding civic participation. It is part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit" designed to help decision-makers, advocates, and elected officials get better results in their work by providing equitable opportunities for all.
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Engaging Youth in Community Change
2005
This Making Connections Peer Technical Assistance Match report summarizes the learnings from a meeting of two Making Connections sites -- Hartford, Connecticut, and Providence, Rhode Island -- when key members from the communities came together to exchange ideas and experiences about engaging youth in community change.
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Our Voice is Your Future: Giving L.A.'s Youth Real Voice and Real Power
2004
This report captures the work of the Youth Engagement Taskforce, a product of the partnership between the Los Angeles County Children's Planning Council and the City of Los Angeles, California, Youth Council of the Workforce Investment Board, and is intended to serve as a call to action to all adults that work with or care about youth.
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Structural Racism and Youth Development: Issues, Challenges, and Implications
2004
This report examines the need for an analytical framework to be applied to structural racism in the field of youth work. It includes comments on the success of organized youth in pushing racial equity outcomes as an explicit part of the mission and values of youth work.
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