Assessing the Meaningful Inclusion of Youth Voice in Policy and Practice: State of the Science

Authors

Blakeslee, J.

Type
Paper/Research
Year published
2018
Accession number

25631

Title

Assessing the Meaningful Inclusion of Youth Voice in Policy and Practice: State of the Science

Series

State-of-the-Science Series

Organization

Research and Training Center for Pathways to Positive Futures, Portland State University

Abstract

This report is part of the 2018 State-of-the-Science Series from the Research and Training Center for Pathways to Positive Futures at Portland State University. The author discusses the current move toward including young people’s voices in the design and delivery of services for youth and young adults and the need for updated tools and frameworks to assist service-providing programs, agencies, and systems in evaluating their efforts in this area. Despite agreeing with the general purpose and principles for youth and young adult voice inclusion in organizations and systems, stakeholders may lack awareness of the policies and practices required to ensure the consistent and meaningful engagement of youth as participants in decision-making processes. The author reviews the state-of-the-science on how to support meaningful participation of young people in organizations and systems, the existing assessment tools, and introduce two new measures for agency- and system-level self-assessment of the conditions that support the meaningful inclusion of youth voice. (author abstract modified)

Availability details

Available for free download on the Portland State University PDXScholar website at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1230&con…

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