Module 3: Civic Engagement and Youth Advocacy in Challenging Times
This module provides tools for connecting youth engagement efforts to broader civic engagement and systems change.4
Key Components:
This module provides tools for connecting youth engagement efforts to broader civic engagement and systems change.
- Cultural humility and curiosity in prevention, youth leadership, and civic engagement
- Cultural humility as a practical necessity
- Phases of cultural competence in our field
- The prevention professional’s role in promoting cultural humility
- Trauma: Individual and Collective
- Creating safe spaces for diverse youth participation, including ways to engage neurodiverse young people
- Addressing implicit bias and structural barriers, esp. in youth engagement
- Confirmation bias
- Halo effect
- Perception bias
- Affinity bias
- Youth-led, adult-guided SPF
- Youth-centered approaches to each phase of the Strategic Prevention Framework
- Q/A
Note: This module can be completed as part of the series or as a stand-alone session. CEUs will be provided for each session completed.