Authentic Youth Engagement
This 60-minute webinar on Authentic Youth Engagement is targeted to adults who work with youth; adults who seek to learn about authentic youth engagement; educators; and prevention professionals.
Learning Objectives:
Understand Youth involvement vs Youth engagement
- Brief history of prevention and young people
- Characteristics of involvement
- Characteristics of engagement
Learn common misconceptions about youth
- Attention span
- Ability to grasp complex issues
- Ability to take on specific responsibilities
- Ability to lead adults
- Others
Understand tips and pitfalls when engaging youth
- Recruitment tips
- Sustainability tips
- Diversity tips
- Others
Learn roles for young people in prevention
- As researchers
- As educators
- As focus groups
- Others
Speaker:
Nigel Wrangham joins us from Eugene, Oregon. His passion is supporting young people to find and use the tools they need to build not just a better tomorrow, but a better today.
Nigel is one of the founders of CADCA’s Youth Leadership program and has been training for CADCA since 2006. He works with groups across the United States, sharing skills in prevention, social justice, brain development, and youth leadership. Nigel has taught university courses in the science of addiction, the history of drugs in America, community organizing, and self-discovery through activities and play. When he worked in Africa as a photographer of wild chimpanzees, he also taught forest conservation to young people in local villages.
Besides working to help youth find and use their power to change society, Nigel spends time with his wife, his two disobedient cats, and his baby son. When he gets the chance, he listens to rock and roll music way louder than he probably should.