Welcome to the Resource Page of Hampton’s Youth Civic Engagement Initiative, winner of the 2005 Innovations in American Government Award. Feel free to download any of these publications, and check back to the site occasionally as new materials are being developed. We encourage you to contact us at 757-728-3280 for further information. We can offer a staffed booth of materials for your conference, speakers, or consulting services.

All materials are made possible by a grant from the Innovations in American Government Award, a program of the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and administered in partnership with the Council for Excellence in Government.

General Overview of Youth Civic Engagement

• Young Voices, New Visions: The Power of Youth to Improve Communities

Supporting Information

• Partnership Profile: Alternatives, Inc.
• Youth In Action, Youth in Service
• Youth as Advisors, Youth with Influence
• Youth as Planners, Youth Share Leadership
• Youth as Change Agents in Neighborhoods
• Youth as Change Agents In Schools

Shaping the Future is a manual on how to start or improve your own youth commission by the award-winning Hampton Youth Commission. The introduction and four chapters outline the basic steps necessary for a successful commission and guidance to help you create a commission that works for your community's specific issues. Single copies of the manual can be downloaded at no cost, courtesy of a grant from the Innovations in American Government Award.

• Introduction
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4

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