Андреа Морли - волонтерка ОО "Женские Альтернативы"

3.  Promoting positive relationships with
peers
 Emphasizing youths’ strengths
 Providing opportunities to learn
healthy behaviors
 Connecting youth with caring adults
 Empowering youth to assume
leadership roles in programs
 Challenging youth in ways that build
their competence

4.  Service learning/community service
 Religious participation
 School participation
 Extracurricular activities (i.e. clubs,
etc.)
 Sports participation
 Artistic expression (i.e. theaters,
media)
 Civic engagement

5.  Impacts long-term citizenship behavior (i.e.
voting)
 civic competence
 sociopolitical development
 Psycho-political literacy
 cultural sensitivity
 critical thinking skills
 ability to solve conflicts non-violently

6.  Youth participation in a local tobacco control
campaign
 Community gardens
 Small scale agriculture and cultural food
production
 Youth radio
 Technology lab (photography and video
action projects)
 Community mural
 Community assessment

7.  Does this help others?
 Does my effort make a difference?
 Am I directly engaged?
 Do I trust the organization?
 Is it “cool” – do my friends do it?
 NOT: It is my duty

8. Meet Alix:
She is an 18-year old who lives in northern California. She
switched shampoos over animal testing and will not buy
clothes produced by child labor. She yells a those who
do not recycle, and last year in high school she helped
organize a protest over the genocide in the Sudan,
raising $13,000 for Darfur relief. All this was before she
was even eligible to vote.

11.  This is the largest youth led organization in
the US when it comes to civil and youth
rights
 Almost 10,000 youth members focus on
removing and lowering legal restrictions that
have been placed on the youths of today in
America

12.  To engage and build political
power for young people in
our country
 Mixes popular culture and
politics
 Registered more than 5
million young people to vote,
and has become a trusted
source of information
 MILLENNIAL GENERATION=1/4
OF THE ENTIRE ELECTORATE
IN 2012

13.  ServiceVote is a YSA’s U.S. election-year
campaign to engage young people, ages 5-25,
in the political process by connecting with
their peers, voters, and candidates
 For both voting age and non-voting age youth
 Challenges young people to learn more about
our government and political system

14.  Creates connections between youths and
adults
 Focuses on youth empowerment,
globalization, illegal child labor, and youth
poverty

15.  Formed in 1967 in Texas
 Aimed at fighting for Mexican-American
Rights
 Involved in voter registration
 Goal: to achieve equality for Mexican
Americans

16.  Over 20 universities and colleges were
represented for the Greater Together Youth
Summit
 Over 140 students who were
eager to learn about organizing
for President Obama on their
campus and attended an
awesome day of training

17.  Began in Summer 2009
 Believe that young people’s
voices are not being heard in the
Debate over health care reform
 National organization representing the
interests of 18 to 34 year olds

18.  Take advantage of the power of mass
media
 Use social networking sites
 Focus on youth-related issues, which are
often ignored by power politics and
politicians
 Use celebrities to expand interest in
campaigns
 Highlight the immediacy and necessity for
ACTION!!!

19.  The number of voters in the 2008 US
Presidential election tripled, even
quadrupled the total number of youth votes
in some states compared to the 2004
elections
 In the Time Magazine article “Why Young
Voters Care Again.” it was reported that
Obama drew more under-30 voters in some
states than all Republican candidates
combined

20. The result can be to strengthen democracy--making
the good news even better!