Youth-Nex Initiatives
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Youth-Nex Blog
Included in this blog are tips and strategies for your work with students and youth.
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Remaking Middle School
Remaking Middle School is a multi-phase initiative, elevating the innovation that is present in middle schools across the country and soliciting national input on how we ensure all students thrive in, and grow from, their experience in the middle grades.
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Youth Participatory Action Research
Youth-Nex’s Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) initiative has created the YPAR Nexus, a set of resources for communities/organizations interested in partnering with youth to design and implement research projects.
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Portrait of a Thriving Youth
The Portrait of a Thriving Youth describes what optimal development looks like during this important period of development.
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Adolescents and the Pandemic
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Youth-Nex and partners engaged around the topics of adolescent development, the pandemic, and returning to school.
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Youth-Speak
Youth-Speak is a project supported by Youth-Nex and designed to amplify youth voices.