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From #NeverAgain to #MeToo, young people are raising their voices to create safer, healthier communities—even if they’re not old enough to vote yet. Young people have been at the forefront of advocacy movements for decades, using their passion and idealism to spark action. But how can we translate that energy into concrete public policy change? We created Pathways to Policy to answer that question—and to support young people in their pursuit of a better world.
Young people co-designed this resource at every phase, from formative research through design, to make sure it reflected their needs and interests. The resulting playbook can inform youth advocacy work on a variety of topics, from defining strategies to help you meet your goal to seeking support from family and friends. Pathways to Policy is for any youth advocacy group or individual young person looking to build their capacity to advocate for healthy changes in their community, whether they follow the steps from start to finish with a facilitator or dive right into the section that applies to their specific situation.
To create this guide, ChangeLab Solutions collaborated with The Bigger Picture (a partnership between the University of California San Francisco [UCSF] Center for Vulnerable Populations and Youth Speaks), the Pediatric Leadership for the Underserved(PLUS) Program at the UCSF Department of Pediatrics, and Youth Leadership Institute(YLI). The Bigger Picture has activated hundreds of high school students through arts-based education on the structural and environmental causes of type 2 diabetes, but they quickly recognized that their students don’t want to just identify problems; they want to solve problems. Pathways to Policy can help; young people can use it to guide their next steps in making their communities healthier.
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