Listening to Youth: Strategies for Youth-Driven Spaces

When youth drive their own learning, they gain the power to advocate for themselves and the causes they believe in. Youth programs or out-of-school programs are essential spaces that can foster the self-development of youth and provide opportunities for youth to thrive in a diversity of areas. How can we as youth workers, educators, and advocates for youth support them in these spaces so that they can be drivers of their own futures?

Attendees will:

• Learn from organizations who are currently doing youth-driven work;
• Gain strategies to develop youth-led and youth-designed spaces;
• Discuss with a diverse group of youth their experiences in youth programs and other youth spaces.

This conference is ideal for educators, youth workers, social workers, and anyone who works with immigrant or refugee youth and young adults.

Click on the schedule below to view our session lineup and learn about our presenters.