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Youth Governance
Governance, in a Community Youth
Development context, means to engage with authority in the conduct of policy and
affairs of the organization or community of which you are part. A fully developed
CYD organization should manifest a horizontal, participatory leadership and organizational
style that attempts to engage all participants as resourcesóincluding youth.
This issue our online focus is youth governance. Before browsing the articles that
are linked below, we offer a brief recapitulation regarding why CYD emphasizes youth
participation.
Youth contribute by providing:
- Remarkable resources and skills,
often overlooked and underestimated.
- A unique perspective that helps
us see the whole picture.
- An earnest desire and developmental
need to actively participate in the community.
Youth gain by:
- Learning important civic and
social skills that will make them more effective citizens.
- Having important developmental
needs met through positive participation in the community.
The community, be it school, neighborhood, or organization, gains by:
- The enriched participation of
youth.
- Adding to the roles of active
citizenship a creative energetic component of the community that is too often marginalized.
The articles below offer some
powerful examples of youth governance in action.
Youth
Leading Now!
Securing a Place at the Table
-Anne
B. Hoover, Amy Weisenbach
Summer
1999, v15-3
Youth
as Resources
-Maria
T. Nagorski
Summer
1999, v15-3
Spotlight
on Youth:
Youth
Representation Leads to Better Public Education
-Ben
Smilowitz
Summer 1999, v15-3
Young
Citizens:
The Landmark Achievements of
Brazil's Social Movement for Children's Rights
by
Caius Brandão
Fall
1998, v14-3
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