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3 Ways To Engage Youth In Storytelling

3/9/2018

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By Melinda Barbosa, Youth Development Consultant & Director
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Every day, in and out of school, middle schoolers are exploring who they are in the world. As youth workers, we can help them shape their story. Every concern, problem or “drama” that middle schoolers share with us can be an entry point to helping them form their identity. How do they see themselves in their own story? Victim? Hero? Supernatural Aid/Mentor?


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Why learn about youth development?

3/2/2018

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By Jess Leach, teacher at Agassiz Baldwin Community and Community Coordinator Associate at Agenda for Children
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My imaginary child "Jess Junior" and all the ways we thought she had changed and would change the in the future

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