YOUTH-LED DIALOGUES FOR POSITIVE CHANGE
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| contents | YOUTH-LED DIALOGUES FOR POSITIVE CHANGE Kristin Bodiford Multidisciplinarias (Ciencias Sociales) Youth stories experiences social change participation Youth in Antioch, California and youth in Manizales, Colombia have begun exchanging their stories and sharing responses by acknowledging each others’ stories and experiences. What might it look like if these youth were to reach out and connect with more youth around the world, to share their stories, their dreams, and their hard-won knowledge and skills? What type of social change might be possible when youth lead dialogues for positive change?In this article, I will share my work on strengthening youth voice and participation in the co-construction of environments in their homes, school, and community to support resilience and pathways to health and well-being. I will tell a story of a community’s commitment to creating positive change by coming together to address the issue of increasing violence.When adults listened to youth voices, we heard that they wanted the support of adults to make changes in their community and that they needed adults to see them differently in order to develop more effective partnerships. Youth played an important role in making sense of their lived experiences, understanding how interpersonal violence impacts them, and sharing what they need from each other, the adults in their lives, and their broader community as they envisioned possibilities that might lead to more positive and generative relationships. While keeping these youth voices central, adults and youth continue to work together to explore and challenge norms that lead to violence in relationships, homes, schools, and communities. As a result of the project, youth and adults began building intergenerational partnerships to weave new narratives and to explore the possibilities that can result from youth-led positive community change. Through this project we discovered the transformative potential of youth as powerful social agents of positive change in their communities.The project, called “Choppin’ It Up”, meaning talking it out, was implemented as part of a U.S. federal demonstration project in California called Families Thrive in partnership with the Youth Intervention Network, and the Antioch Unified School District. We worked with group of diverse high school students who had been exposed to interpersonal violence or other significant adversity in their lives and were considered to be ‘at-risk’ or troubled. ... 2013 artículo científico 2011-4532 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=585961837008 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=5859 Revista Eleuthera application/pdf Universidad de Caldas Revista Eleuthera (Colombia) Vol.8 |
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| spellingShingle | YOUTH-LED DIALOGUES FOR POSITIVE CHANGE Kristin Bodiford Multidisciplinarias (Ciencias Sociales) Youth stories experiences social change participation YOUTH-LED DIALOGUES FOR POSITIVE CHANGE Kristin Bodiford Multidisciplinarias (Ciencias Sociales) Youth stories experiences social change participation Youth in Antioch, California and youth in Manizales, Colombia have begun exchanging their stories and sharing responses by acknowledging each others’ stories and experiences. What might it look like if these youth were to reach out and connect with more youth around the world, to share their stories, their dreams, and their hard-won knowledge and skills? What type of social change might be possible when youth lead dialogues for positive change?In this article, I will share my work on strengthening youth voice and participation in the co-construction of environments in their homes, school, and community to support resilience and pathways to health and well-being. I will tell a story of a community’s commitment to creating positive change by coming together to address the issue of increasing violence.When adults listened to youth voices, we heard that they wanted the support of adults to make changes in their community and that they needed adults to see them differently in order to develop more effective partnerships. Youth played an important role in making sense of their lived experiences, understanding how interpersonal violence impacts them, and sharing what they need from each other, the adults in their lives, and their broader community as they envisioned possibilities that might lead to more positive and generative relationships. While keeping these youth voices central, adults and youth continue to work together to explore and challenge norms that lead to violence in relationships, homes, schools, and communities. As a result of the project, youth and adults began building intergenerational partnerships to weave new narratives and to explore the possibilities that can result from youth-led positive community change. Through this project we discovered the transformative potential of youth as powerful social agents of positive change in their communities.The project, called “Choppin’ It Up”, meaning talking it out, was implemented as part of a U.S. federal demonstration project in California called Families Thrive in partnership with the Youth Intervention Network, and the Antioch Unified School District. We worked with group of diverse high school students who had been exposed to interpersonal violence or other significant adversity in their lives and were considered to be ‘at-risk’ or troubled. ... 2013 artículo científico 2011-4532 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=585961837008 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=5859 Revista Eleuthera application/pdf Universidad de Caldas Revista Eleuthera (Colombia) Vol.8 |
| title | YOUTH-LED DIALOGUES FOR POSITIVE CHANGE |
| topic | Multidisciplinarias (Ciencias Sociales) Youth stories experiences social change participation |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=585961837008 |