YOUR ALL-IN-ONE Guide to teen advisory.
For young people to thrive, they need their voices heard, their experiences understood, and their ideas elevated. If you’re reading this, it may mean you agree—and are in a position to make that happen! Whether new to youth advisory or well-versed in youth engagement, the Youth Voice Playbook offers practical resources, honest insights, and real stories. This free, interactive guide, collaboratively produced by Hopelab, Character Lab, In Tandem, and our team at the Center for Digital Thriving, is designed to help you amplify youth voices.
This resource is for researchers who want to meaningfully build youth voice into their work, but aren’t sure where or how to get started.
BeNEFiTS OF BRiNGiNG YOUTH VOiCeS TO THE FORe
- Transform your understanding
- Ask better questions
- Avoid misinterpretations
- Get new ideas
- Support young people
YOU’ve gOT THiS (anD WE’RE HERE tO heLP!)
This Playbook is an all-in-one youth-engagement guide. It covers everything from planning and recruitment to our favorite activities (don’t miss Chapter 5!) for exploring young people’s perspectives and then making sense of what they’ve shared.
Curious? Take a 3-minute tour of the Playbook in the video featured below. We’ve also created a decision-making flowchart to help you figure out where to dig in and what you can maybe skim over. You can find the decision-making flowchart on the homepage of the Playbook (see: Need Help Figuring Out Where to Start?).
THE CaSe fOR yOUTH-enGaGeD RESEaRCH
As a companion to the Youth Voice Playbook, our colleagues at Hopelab also released case studies. These case studies provide step-by-step examples of how Hopelab and the Center for Digital Thriving have collaborated with young people to understand and amplify their perspectives on technology use and mental health.
