Engaging Youth in Policymaking
Youth Voting Rights
Engaging Youth in Policymaking
- Fact Sheet: Engaging Youth: A Key Ingredient of Effective Youth Impact Assessments, Kids Impact Initiative
- Achieving Authentic Youth Engagement: Core Values & Guiding Principle, Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Authentic Youth Engagement, Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Guides to Help Organizations Build Effective Youth Engagement Programs, CLA Center for the Developing Adolescent
- How to be child-centred, New Zealand Children’s Commissioner
- UK Youth Parliament, British Youth Council
- Child and Youth Participation—Options for Action, Child Friendly Cities Initiative
- Opportunity Youth United
- Student Voice
- Child Participation in Local Governance—UNICEF Country Office Case Studies, UNICEF
- Tip Sheets for Adults, Adolescents and Youth on Adolescent and Youth Participation in Different Settings, UNICEF
- Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety and the Policymaker Toolkit, which
guides policymakers and decision-makers on how to meaningfully engage and involve young people - Video highlighting mentoring as an experience that centers youth, with an emphasis on race, ethnicity, class, citizenship, gender, and sexuality, Critical Mentoring
Youth Voting Rights
- Voting Age, National Youth Rights Association
- Efforts by and Examples at the Federal, State, and International Level to Lower the Voting Age, National Youth Rights Association
- Vote16USA, National Campaign that supports efforts to extend voting rights to 16-and 17-year-olds
- The Surprising Consequence of Lowering the Voting Age, by Jens Olav Dahlgaard in The Washington Post
- Children’s Voting Colloquium is a global collaboration of researchers, activists, child-led and adult-led organizers, policymakers, and others dedicated to eliminating voting discrimination according to young people’s age.
- Civic Influencers, national organization “whose mission is to increase youth civic power and youth voting, giving emphasis to Black, Indigenous and Youth of Color”