1. Youth Engagement Project
Youth Meeting
July 25, 2017

2. Agenda Introductions and orientation.
Brief (10 minute) presentations by each of your groups about your goals, focus, and mission. 
Describe why we are meeting and draft a vision and mission for our group.  Who is missing? (45 min)
Contracts, reimbursement, and schedule of meetings (15 min).
Agenda

3. Develop products and articulate processes for family and youth engagement in schools, state systems, and community entities, that are delivered by family and youth-led purveyor organizations (capacity builders) and that will lead to improved outcomes for children, youth, young adults and families.
Mission or Goal

4. Norms… Silence technology Respect others Be positive
Everyone is equal (voice)
Youth first-
Consensus decisionmaking
Use plain language, acronym free or translate
Start and end on time
Norms…

5. The nested model Youth Region/State Community System
My School or Agency
Youth
The nested model

6. Pemi Youth Center- attached powerpoint
Presentations

7. Presentations YEAH Council- Youth Leadership Through Action (YLTA)
Focus on Youth with disabilities and special medical needs
Self-advocacy, education, leadership development
Youth Leadership Through Action (YLTA)
10 schools throughout the North Country, focus is on all youth
Leadership Summits, highly structures
Outdoor adventure experiences
Development of and support for leadership teams in schools
Focus is on health and wellness, substance use prevention
Presentations

8. Presentations Governor’s Youth Council
Focus on leadership development for substance misuse prevention and advocacy
Vision Statement: The Governor’s Youth Council’s vision is a New Hampshire that prevents substance misuse and provides recovery support for all, where citizens are informed and youth are actively involved in prevention efforts.
Mission: The Governor’s Youth Council advises the governor on legislation, events, and media pertaining to substance misuse for the people of New Hampshire from a youth perspective.
Working on establishing themselves through legislation.
Community Action for Safe Teens (CAST)-
In Nashua Schools
Youth group development t- focus on health and wellness
Presentations

9. Presentations YouthMOVE NH
Mission: Connect and build capacity for youth empowerment efforts happening across the state through collaboration in developing consistent language around youth engagement, sharing resources and best practices, advocating for access to authentic opportunities for positive youth development, and educating community partners about the importance of youth voice in systems change.  
Vision: To provide all young people across New Hampshire with an array of opportunities and supports that empower them and guide them through developing their individual skillsets as healthy and successful advocates, leaders, and changemakers.
Statewide, focus on working with youth who have lived experience, behavioral health
Peer-to-peer support provided through a particular intervention (Family- and Youth-Driven Wraparound)
Leadership development- Summer Institute and in schools
Presentations

10. Observations and Themes from Today’s Presentations
Some organizations focus on individual development and individual advocacy
Some organizations focus on community advocacy
Some organizations focus on both
Observations and Themes from Today’s Presentations

11. Youth Background Paper Youth Engagement…
Youth participation and involvement in program design, implementation, and evaluation.
Positive environments and safe and structured places.
Skill and asset development opportunities.
Opportunities to serve others.
Positive relationships with adults.
RESILIENCY
POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
Davis, Gap Analysis, 2016, p. 30
Youth Background Paper Youth Engagement…

12. Leadership development begins with self-understanding.
Setting personal goals is part of leadership development.
Self-esteem, confidence, and motivation are important necessities for life and leadership and can be supported and developed in young people.
Establishing and maintaining a support network is necessary to participate fully in community life.
With the development of self-understanding and personal life skills comes the chance to guide, direct, or influence others, and to serve as a role model.
Davis, Best Practice Paper, 2016, p. 13
Youth Leadership is…

13. Continuum of Family/Youth Engagement Framework
CONTEXTS
Individual level
Own School/Agency
Community Systems
Region and State
Continuum of Family/Youth Engagement Framework
Activities
Building Self-Efficacy
Opportunities to Participate
Peer-to-Peer Supporters
Advocacy Skill Development
Individualized Peer-to-Peer Support
Educational Opportunities
Leadership Development
Individualized Child- and Family Teams
Leadership Development- Community groups
Self-Advocacy
 Self-Advocacy
Group Advocacy
 Group Advocacy
Dual Capacity Development
Dual Capacity Building
To define and conceptualization where we want to go….

14. GAPS Youth run and youth advocacy groups are not collaborating
Gap 41: There is an absence of practice support for this approach from the primary public education and service systems
Gap 43: Public systems are not in any organized way taking advantage of the natural skills among young people and systemically involving them in public education and communication activities
Gap 44: Each of these [leadership development] activities appears to stand alone, without much visible evidence that they represent significant planning and implementation collaboration by multiple systems and agencies.
Davis, Gap Analysis Paper, 2016
GAPS

15. Brainstorm: GAPS Gap: Getting into the schools;
Gap: Schools and communities do not all see the need for youth leadership and development.
Gap: Getting to the families- impacting the families.
Gap: Not partnering with the service providers and professionals.
Gap: Youth are underutilized and under employed.
Gap: Treatment
Gap: Not enough professional development and equitable positions for youth service professionals. (can’t earn a living as a youth worker).
Gap: Not enough funds to do our work. Do a better job at articulating our work.
Brainstorm: GAPS

16. To create a framework and plan that enables the further development, effective implementation, scale-up, and evaluation of family and youth leadership, engagement, advocacy, and supports in children's behavioral health by convening diverse and key family and youth partners and using a structured process to define each practice. The outcome will be a document that articulates the key elements and indicators of high-quality training, peer-to-peer support, and leadership development. This framework is necessary to guide the development of training, establish program standards, allow for collaboration and coordination among our diverse family and youth partners, and allow for financial and policy support for programs in family and youth engagement.
Workplan

17. Working together to create a common vision
Shared resources and collaboration---
Making connections
Recognition for our youth leadership and development and people under stand what it is
The value of our work is recognized- partnerships-
We effect positive change and make a significant positive impact\
We are adaptable to what youth and communities need
Working together to create a common vision

18. Mission of our group

19. Youth Projects Youth Organizing Project YouthMOVE
Parent Information Center Youth
Pemi Youth Center
Youth Advisory Board of DCYF
YLTA (North Country Health Consortia)
Youth Projects

20. Meeting Schedule: Dates and Times
August afternoon
September-19 after school
October-17 after school
November 15 after school
Meeting Schedule: Dates and Times

21. Questions or suggestions- contact us!
JoAnne Malloy-
Kelly Untiet-
Heidi Cloutier-
Questions or suggestions- contact us!