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Open Fishbowls

Inclusive Planning for Social Change

Local Programming: Generational Divide? Build Your Youth Engagement Toolkit

Monday, March 31, 2025
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM CT
Location: 607
CM: .75
Division Endorsement: Women and Planning Division
Participate in a guided, dynamic discussion designed to offer a toolkit for meaningful youth engagement. Contribute your ideas, experience, professional expertise, and challenges to seeking and applying young voices in planning for parks and recreation, third spaces, mixed-use development, and more. Don’t waste youth on the young — help them inform your whole community.

Why engage youth? Learn about the tangible benefits, hilarious moments, and humbling inspiration that can ensue when you expand civic participation to include emerging citizen planners. Learn how to move from engagement for engagement’s sake to actionable methods by exploring practical applications. These include conducting anonymous youth surveys and empowering youth to lead community engagement by using existing resources. Examine opportunities and considerations for including youth voices in planning outcomes such as built projects, improved policies, and changed programs.

Leave with exciting ideas, honest lessons learned, and replicable strategies to round out your youth engagement toolkit.

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Learning Objectives:

  • Assess opportunities for youth engagement on topics directly relevant to youth, including ways for young voices to be heard during planning processes.
  • Build a toolkit for youth engagement strategies.
  • Translate attractive engagement opportunities for youth, such as recreation and third places, into your built projects, policies, and programs.