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Engaging Youth in g g g Prevention Activities Abby Sims Welcome to the web conference. We will begin in a moment. PreventConnect.org Online Community Nell Myhand Web Conferences, Reading Clubs nell@calcasa.org Wiki, Podcasts,


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Engaging Youth in g g g Prevention Activities

Abby Sims Welcome to the web conference. We will begin in a moment.

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Building capacity

E t P t ti Expert Presentation PODS

  • discussion

networking

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Engaging Youth in Prevention Activities PODS

Facilitated by Leah Aldridge

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CDC Violence Prevention 2010 Web Conference Learning Exchange

Leah Aldridge Facilitator

lt t d t i l

  • consultant and teen violence

prevention expert

  • developed U.S. Department of

Health and Human Services model violence prevention model violence prevention program In Touch with Teens

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POD Meetings

Signup for Pod 1 Mtg 1 ‐ Wed 6/30, 3:00 PM ET

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and Mtg 2 ‐ Wed 7/21, 1:00 PM ET Pod 2 Mtg 1 ‐ Thu 7/1, 1:00 PM ET and Mtg 2 ‐ Thu 7/22 1:00 PM ET Report out ‐ Wed 8/4, 1:00 PM ET and and Mtg 2 Thu 7/22, 1:00 PM ET

Engaging Youth in Prevention

Abigail Sims James Campos Melodie Kruspodin

Prevention Activities

Abigail Sims James Campos Melodie Kruspodin Mikel Crumble

CDC Violence Prevention May 2010 Web Conference Learning Exchange

Abby@peaceoverviolence.org

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Why are we here?

  • Explore how service

providers can partner with providers can partner with youth to end dating and sexual violence.

  • Overview of youth

engagement strategies

Topics of Discussion

  • Benefits of youth adult

partnerships

  • Challenges to effective

youth participation y p p

  • Pod planning
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Overview of Youth Engagement Methods Strategies for Creating Programming that supports Intergenerational Partnerships

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  • Service delivery‐prevention

education

  • Engagement‐ training
  • Leadership‐ building a

movement

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Think back to a situation that occurred when you were young(er) and you participated in a positive intergenerational partnership.

What did that adult do that made you feel valued or empowered?

Use text chat to answer

Melodies’ Experience

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Guiding Principal

Nothing about us, without us.

‐ South African Disability Rights Activists

Excluding Youth

What ways do you see What ways do you see programming practicing exclusion?

Use your text chat to answer

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Youth Empowerment

Youth are empowered when they are given p y g choices and allowed to define their own process. We know that adolescents experience increased vulnerability, but that does not give helpers permission to withhold options, give inaccurate

  • r incomplete information or dictate
  • r incomplete information, or dictate.

POV Programming

  • ITWT education

STOP

  • STOP
  • P2P
  • Be Strong
  • My Strength
  • Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling

  • Youth employment
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Incorporating Youth into Agency Identity

  • Cross training
  • Outreach and events

Are there programmatic benefits to increasing youth involvement in

Use your feedback box

prevention activities?

to answer yes or no

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Intergenerational partnerships result in…

  • Increased community responsiveness
  • More effective and available services
  • Creativity, enthusiasm and inspiration
  • Increased sustainability
  • A more robust movement
  • Others?

Use your feedback box to agree/disagree

Personal Benefits of Intergenerational Partnerships

  • Fulfilling relationships
  • Increased sense of

connectedness

  • Vision for a future

movement

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Programmatic Barriers to Intergenerational Partnerships

  • Funding/organizational policies
  • Liability
  • Limits of confidentiality
  • Parents
  • Access
  • Others?

Use your feedback box to agree/disagree

Letting go…

  • Where is the fear?
  • What are the organizational
  • What are the organizational

pressures to resist sharing power?

  • Personal issues?

Use your text chat to answer

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Your Plan

  • What is your vision for

enhancing existing partnerships?

Think back to when you were young(er) and you participated in a positive inter‐ generational partnership.

What did that adult do that made you feel valued d?

Use text chat to answer

  • r empowered?
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