Youth Engagement Workshop 1: Assessing Organizational Capacity and Readiness to Successfully Engage with Youth in Your Substance Use Prevention Work
Is your organization ready to engage young people in your prevention work? Could the framework of social justice youth development add to your planned or existing work with and for youth? This 2-part course series responds to requests for additional practice-oriented and interactive content.
The first course in this series will introduce learners to characteristics of organizations that serve as a strong foundation for youth engagement. Learners then examine their own organizational capacity and readiness for youth engagement. Learners explore ideas for advancing characteristics to include and strengthen youth voice within their own settings. The course closes with an introduction to social justice youth development theory as a model for how to deepen practice with and for young people.
Learning Objectives
- Describe organizational characteristics needed to support youth engagement.
- Examine aspects of your own organizational capacity and readiness for youth engagement.
- Identify one step your organization can take to increase organizational capacity and readiness for youth engagement.
