This toolkit is for adults who work with youth, whether this is the beginning of that journey for you or you’ve been on it for a while and are experienced in working with young people. It’s also for people who support afterschool and youth-development programs.

This toolkit offers tips from youth and lessons learned from adults who’ve been there. Based on our own experience, we have organized the toolkit into different parts:

– Why youth voice?
– Programming
– Operations
– Leadership
– Culture

You can skip around to the sections that are most interesting and relevant to your needs at any given time. Each section has different tools in different media formats, so you can hear directly from youth as well as from adults who have been listening to youth.

This toolkit is co-created by youth and adults who sought their input. We invite you to listen, watch, read, and interact with this toolkit – and share your experience with youth voice, too!