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Community Development Journal 38:298-309 (2003)
© 2003 Community Development Journal and Oxford University Press

Young people as competent citizens

Barry Checkoway, Katie Richards-Schuster, Shakira Abdullah, Margarita Aragon, Evelyn Facio, Lisa Figueroa, Ellen Reddy, Mary Welsh and Al White

Barry Checkoway is a professor of social work and urban planning, and Katie Richards-Schuster is a doctoral student in social work and social science at the University of Michigan. They are national evaluators of Lifting New Voices, in which they collaborate with community-based evaluators who represent their respective organizations: Shakira Abdullah (Direct Action for Rights and Equality); Margarita Aragon (People United for a Better Oakland); Evelyn Facio (Southwest Organizing Project); Lisa Figueroa (Youth Force), Ellen Reddy and Al White (Southern Echo) and Mary Welsh (Citizens for Community Improvement of Des Monies).

Address for correspondence: Barry Checkoway, Professor of Social Work and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, School of Social Work, 1080 South University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109–1106, USA.

Young people are competent citizens who can create community change, but the media often emphasize troubled youth and the services they require. This paper reports on a national effort to increase youth participation in community-based organizations in the United States. It provides cross-site analysis of their issues and strategies, the impacts of participation and the factors that facilitate and limit the process. It concludes with observations about the changing context of youth participation and the participatory community-based research methods needed to increase its understanding.


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