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Saturday, March 21, 2015: 9:50 AM-11:10 AM
Room 5 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)
Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report
Learning Objectives:
- Examine the field of youth organizing and understand how the movement to end gender based violence can learn from, integrate with, and build on the successes of youth organizing in related social justice movements such as education reform, immigration, LGBTQ and environmental movements.
- Identify and utilize youth organizing and collective efficacy as primary prevention strategies to end gender based violence through meaningful youth engagement approach and youth organizing curricula.
- Understand the importance of the shift towards youth organizing for movements and organizations working to end gender based violence and provide the tools to foster youth leadership.
We will encourage participants to expand beyond positive youth development and the promotion of healthy relationships towards youth organizing as a strategy to end gender-based violence. We will teach the tools and skills necessary to create a multigenerational, cross-movement youth organizing strategy in partnership with other social justice movements. Lastly we will focus on the ways young people can learn the systemic nature of problems and the need for corresponding systemic solutions to better address broader social justice concerns.