The Science of Engaging Youth Lived Experience in Health Research, Practice, and Policy — The National Academies.
With Nia West-Bey and Joseph Yusuf,
The Forum for Children’s Well-Being hosted a 2-day, virtual workshop on the science of engaging youth in research, practice, and policy aimed at advancing youth well-being. Panels highlighted evidence around youth engagement outcomes as well as best practices and innovative strategies for engaging youth. Discussions considered the benefits and challenges of engagement and questions of scalability and sustainability.
Youth engagement is a core focus of the Board’s Forum for Children’s Well-Being, which hosted public workshop titled “The Science of Engaging Youth Lived Experience in Health Research, Practice, and Policy.” This event brought together youth leaders, researchers, practitioners, and state, federal, and private-sector decision-makers to explore the impacts and potential of youth participatory methods.
CLASP’s Nia West-Bey participated along with the New Deal for Youth‘s Joseph Yusuf.
“It is incumbent upon us as the 30-pluses or the more seasoned folks or the young elders or whatever it is that we want to call ourselves, to prepare ourselves to receive young people’s leadership, to actively and intentionally dismantle adultism in all of the spaces that we occupy, and to really think about what it looks like to be in authentic partnership with young people, because it’s only going to get us to better outcomes and a better future.”—Nia West-Bey