Youth Voice: What it is and Why it Matters

About

Join the NYC Youth Funders for a session that will offer a framework and overview of different types of "youth voice" programs and methods.

Panelists will share how participating in authentic youth engagement, advocacy and organizing builds social-emotional competencies that set students individually on a path to success. You will come away udnerstanding the importance of youth voice in informing programs, services and policies on a systemic level.

Explore:

• Three highly effective models here in New York
• Both the core program elements and the potential impact on young people's lives and futures
• A framing of "youth voice": definitions and key differences in various models and approaches, an overview of the types of outcomes associated with each
• The impact of the featured organizations' work on individual participants and outside of the organization

Presenters

• The Brotherhood/Sister Sol
• Rockaway Youth Task Force
• Teens Take Charge, a program of the Bell

Registration
2:45 - 3:00 PM  Check-in
3:00 - 5:00 PM  Program

Registration is required by October 1st. 

Members: To register yourself and/or a colleague at your organization, please log in and click the Register Now link.

Guests of NYC Youth Funders: Please email nycyouthfunders@gmail.com with your name, title, organizational affiliation, business mailing address, and phone number. Please indicate by which organizer you were invited. (no fee)

Non-Member Funders: Please email register@philanthropynewyork.org. ($150 fee)