Advocates for Youth is a D.C. based organization that advocates for "policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health". Their greatest partnership aspect seems to lie in their
Youth Activist Network, which organizes groups of students on high school and college campuses in order to advance the goals in their Mission Statement. They also have a
dedicated section to criteria and standards for Youth-Adult Partnerships, but what made this particular write-up interesting to me was that they included what a youth adult partnership was
not. For example, youth-adult partnerships are not:
- Having young people around with no clear role to play
- Assigning youth only those tasks which adults do not want to fulfill
- Having youth make media appearances without any voice in developing the messages, programs, or policies that the youth are expected to talk about
- Having one youth on a board of directors or council to point to as "youth involvement
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