Youth Leadership

Goal: Increase the number of youth participating in leadership opportunities

Theory: More youth will participate if a) they are compensated for their time b) they know the opportunities exist and c) they can have impact in areas they care about. If more youth are engaging with leadership, they can guide the coalition to make sure the most relevant services and resources are being offered.

Strategies

Connect to Work-based Learning

With the passage of Colorado House Bill 25-1278, school leaders will have an incentive to offer increased work-based learning opportunities. If we structure youth leadership as internships, we can use this change to raise awareness of the programs AND offer credit towards graduation

Empower Community-Based Organizations

Rather than relying on the districts to work with orgs to design internship programs, we can help community-based organizations learn how to do this design work independently by providing training, removing a bottleneck that otherwise limits youth internship opportunities & better reaching historically disenfranchised youth

Raise Money

Through partnership with Apex Leadership, we can empower youth teams to raise money to fund internship stipends by running Anythons

Engage Decision Makers

Encourage city and district staff to tap into this pool of youth leaders to support their decision making rather than establishing their own separate youth advisory panels

An overview of this impact team’s work is here.

Running notes from impact team meetings are here.