Resources: For more Information

The Search Institute’s Resources Hub has a variety of resources in a number of formats including activities, tools, research articles and more on that focus on key strategies in relationship building, an important component of youth voice.
Adolescent Brain Development & Healing from Trauma, Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, Annie E. Casey Foundation
Youth-Led Organizing, a Strategy for Healing and Child Welfare Systems Change (Georgia’s MAAC and EmpowerMEnt’s “symbiotic” relationship is featured on page 29)
Authentic Youth Engagement series of briefs, from the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, Annie E. Casey Foundation
Washington Youth Voice Handbook, includes a variety of resources and tools for incorporating youth voice (and here’s a related, simplified handout “Key principles of youth voice” organized by GUIDE, Inc.)
“Quality Matters” toolkit for youth voice from the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development
Why Be Youth Driven from the Neutral Zone in Ann Arbor, MI