The Fridays for Future (FFF) movement is a major climate movement on a global scale, calling for systemic change and demanding politicians act on their responsibilities. In this paper, we present and ...analyze original findings from a case study on the FFF movement in Finland, at a watershed moment for young climate activism. We explore the representations of young people’s environmental citizenship within the framings of the FFF movement, using an environ-mental citizenship framework analysis of the Finnish news media and Twitter discussions. We identified three frames within the media debate on the school strikes: the sustainable lifestyle frame, which focuses on the individual aspects of environmental citizenship, the active youth frame, which focuses on justifications of youth participation in politics, and the school attendance frame, which is concerned about the young people’s strike action. Our results explore the many aspects of environmental citizenship that young people express in the FFF movement. We reflect on the dominance of adult voices in the framing of this historic movement of young people for action on climate change. Our analysis contributes to a step change in the study of this important global movement, which is shaping the emergence of young people as active citizens in Finland and around the world. We argue that the FFF movement is shaping young people’s perceptions of active citizenship, and we advocate a youth-centred focus on the collective action and justice demands of young people.
Objective
(1) To give adolescents and youth a voice and listen to the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) in their lives; (2) to identify their coping strategies; (3) present lessons ...learned to be better prepared for future pandemics.
Methods
Six hundred and seventeen participants from 16 to 24 years old (M = 19.2 years; F = 19.1 years) answered the online questionnaire during the pandemic lockdown. Sociodemographic data were analyzed with SPSS version 26 and qualitative data with MAXQDA 2020. Engel's Biopsychosocial model supported the analysis and data presentation.
Results
in terms of impacts, stands out: biological—headaches and muscle pain; psychological—more time to perform pleasant and personal development activities, but more symptoms of depression, anxiety, and loneliness, longer screen time, and more substance use; social—increase of family conflicts and disagreements, loss of important life moments, contacts, and social skills, but it allows a greater selection of friendships. Regarding coping strategies, the importance of facing these times with a positive perspective, carrying out pleasurable activities, keeping in touch with family and friends, and establishing routines are emphasized. As lessons for future pandemics, the importance of respecting the norms of the Directorate‐General for Health, the need for the National Health System to be prepared, as well as teachers and students for online learning, and studying the possibility of establishing routines with the support of television.
Conclusions
This study illustrates adolescents and young people's perception of the impacts of the pandemic upon them, as well as their competence to participate in the issues that directly affect them. Priorities to mitigate the impact of future pandemics are presented.
This report of the development of an intervention in practice outlines the design, delivery, and evaluation of a tailored, school‐based, group adolescent sleep intervention utilising youth ...participation methodology and an intervention mapping protocol as a framework. The intervention also included supplementary video support. The intervention was delivered to 5‐year 11 students attending a pupil referral unit. This alternative education provision is organised to provide education for young people who cannot participate in school and may not otherwise receive suitable education in Britain. Through co‐formulation and cooperative design, the voice of the young people was sought throughout the design, implementation, and evaluation process. The behavioural objectives of the intervention were to increase stress management techniques and reduce technology usage. These were chosen to align with the overall outcomes: improving sleep behaviours and reducing negative sleep hygiene practices. Improvements in sleep behaviour and decreases in negative sleep hygiene practices were achieved post‐intervention and at 4‐month follow‐up. Strengths of the intervention, future intervention optimisation, and implications for practice are considered.
Practitioner points
Utilising youth participation methodology empowered the young people, increased their buy‐in of the sleep intervention, and led to the identification of relevant behavioural objectives: improving stress management techniques and reducing technology usage
Improvements in sleep behaviour and decreases in negative sleep hygiene practices were achieved postintervention and at 4‐month follow‐up.
This Viewpoint discusses the impacts that sports participation bans could have on the cardiovascular health, bone health, mental health, and cognitive development of transgender and gender-diverse ...youth.
Young people worldwide are engaged in diverse forms of participation which offer a pathway for demanding accountability from governance actors. In contexts with fragile governance structures, young ...people face a unique set of challenges in their efforts to demand accountability or participate in decision-making. The expected relationship between participation and accountability as understood in liberal, democratic settings is often absent and instead demands for accountability are often made through strategies ‘at the margins’. Using Palestine as a case study, we show how young people look for accountability beyond state institutions and the national scale, using diverse strategies depending on their embedded position in society. This analysis sheds light on the complex reality of youth participation and accountability mechanisms in socially, politically and physically contested spaces and, by extension, points towards challenges and opportunities in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals.
To date, various participation models have been proposed to assist those who want to involve young people in program design, delivery and evaluation. These models tend to classify participatory ...practices, and often use hierarchical structures which do not account well for the socio-cultural contexts in which participation takes place. In this paper, we draw upon scholarship in the fields of feminist, post-structural and critical theory, as well as youth studies, and citizenship research to propose a new framework for conceptualising and planning for youth participation in programs. The framework directs attention towards the seven inter-connected domains of purpose, positioning, perspective, power relations, protection, place and process. To illustrate the framework, we draw on our experience of two youth projects which address HIV prevention in countries within the Asia-Pacific region. We demonstrate how using the framework helped to strengthen the vision, quality and impact of the programs.
•Context and power relations are significant in relation to youth participation in programs.•The 7P Model highlights the importance of purpose, positioning, perspective, power relations, protection, place and process in relation to youth participation in programs.•One needs to be aware of the complex and dynamic relationships between these seven domains that affect youth participation.
Abstract
The co-production of transition planning (i.e. care leavers having opportunities to influence decisions about their lives) is recognised as an important process internationally. However, ...little is known about factors influencing care leavers’ involvement in transition planning. This study uses a sample of care leavers in California (n = 423) and multiple data sources, including youth–worker matched data, to investigate predictors of transitional independent living plan (TILP) involvement. The outcome measures the mechanisms care leavers experienced during their TILP process, including worker-driven production (i.e. not aware of or not involved), youth-driven co-production (i.e. involved in and led) and youth–worker co-production (i.e. involved in but did not lead). Multinomial logistic regression was used to examine relationships between predictors measured at age 17 and TILP involvement mechanisms at age 19. Most youth led (44 per cent) or were involved in (43 per cent) TILP planning, but 14 per cent were not aware or uninvolved. Care leavers’ opportunities to influence their TILP were shaped by their individual (e.g. personality and support networks), relational (e.g. caseworker’s perception of youth’s preparedness) and contextual (e.g. regional service availability) factors. Notably, youth served by specialised caseworkers were more likely to experience youth–worker co-production than youth-driven co-production. Implications for practice and research are discussed.
The benefits of embedding youth voices in research is increasingly recognised by researchers, national funding bodies and young people. To ensure that best practice youth participation models can be ...implemented, it is paramount that existing models and practices are described, and the impacts of these models are subsequently evaluated.
This study aimed to: i) describe the implementation of a Youth Advisory Board (YAB) in a mental health and substance use research centre; ii) assess staff and YAB perspectives regarding the implementation of the YAB; and iii) ascertain suggestions for how the voices of young people could be better integrated into research.
Staff (n = 19) and YAB members (n = 7) completed an online survey regarding their perceptions of youth participation in research and on the impact of the YAB.
Staff cited various barriers to involving young people more directly in research (such as time and funding) and YAB members offered suggestions for improving youth participation further (such as increasing professional development opportunities and involving YAB members at the beginning stages of projects).
These findings highlight the importance of overcoming barriers to engaging young people in research so these models may continue to meet the needs of young people and researchers. To achieve this, dedicated youth participation funding and longitudinal evaluation of relevant models is required.
Civic engagement is positively associated with important health and developmental benefits for participating adolescents and young adults. As illustrated by youth political participation, social ...activism, and rallies for racial justice during the COVID-19 pandemic, youth civic engagement is often inspired by and responsive to problems that are salient to a young person's lived experiences. Providers can empower youth and encourage civic engagement by eliciting issues that are important to them and directing them to community resources and opportunities for civic participation that can help them address these issues.
This study determined factors influencing youth participation in maize production in Dutsin-Ma Local Government Area of Katsina State, Nigeria. A two-stage sampling procedure (purposive and ...proportionate sampling procedure) was employed in selecting 78 farmers in the study area. The data collected were analyzed using percentage and ordinary least square regression model. The results revealed that access to credit (3.058), amount of credit received (1.695) and farming experience (- 4.161) significantly influence youth participation in maize production. There is need of provision of credit facilities and enough land to the youth for fully participation in maize production by the government in the study area
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