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A newsletter for young changemakers

Fall 2022

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Latest events and opportunities

Learn On-the-Go: Get Social with YouthLead

From interactive Instagram Live Question and Answer sessions featuring YouthLead superstars like CARE Leaders Council member Maicol Londoño to replay-ready webinars and events on YouTube. If you are not following us yet, what are you waiting for? Follow us and find out what you are missing today! In the meantime, enjoy this thoughtful conversation on making mental health and psychosocial support services a part of the healing process for youth impacted by conflict. Watch now.

What's New on YouthLead?

Check out our new content Hubs on YouthLead.org

We want to make it easier for you to find what you want when you need it! With the launch of our new Hubs at YouthLead.org, you can now find aggregated content based on your interests all in one convenient place.
Hubs include:
Agriculture and Food Security
Climate Change
Entrepreneurship and Employment
Environment and Energy
Gender Equity
Technology and Digital Tools
Meet other changemakers and find tools to begin or enhance your journey!

Resource Spotlight! The United States Agency for International Development's Youth in Development Policy (2022) draws on the evidence-based positive youth development (PYD) framework and prioritizes meaningful youth engagement and leadership in the design and delivery of activities, projects, and strategies. Involving youth of diverse identities in the co-creation design process from the start helps to better understand context and, ultimately, design more relevant and effective programs. This resource provides insight into the value of youth engagement in the design process of development programming as well as methods and tools to bring into your work. Download today.

Now Available! The latest event in our ongoing online mentor series is now available for replay. During this session, you will listen to a dynamic panel discussion among Latin American Leadership Academy (LALA) mentor-mentee pairs who have personal or professional experiences in mentorship and have identified potential areas to strengthen mentorship knowledge and practices. They also share listening techniques to build strong mentoring relationships. Watch now.

Connect with Us on Instagram
For the latest on members of YouthLead and changemakers like our recent graduating cohort of YouthLead Ambassadors, connect with us on Instagram at @youthleadglobal. Discover how these young leaders are transforming their communities for the better!

Celebrate International Day of the Girl Child

On October 11, join us in uplifting adolescent girls as we recognize the International Day of the Girl Child (IDG). Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, IDG is a global reminder and call to assist the world's 600 million adolescent girls in making sure they have the skills and access to opportunities they need to build thriving livelihoods.

To understand the importance of supportive environments for young girls and women, revisit this episode of The PYD Lab titled, Room to Grow: The Power of Safe Spaces for Young Women featuring Cynthia Nyongesa and Lisa Jenga. Explore the issues women and girls still face and hear first-hand accounts of the positive impacts of mentoring.

The Impact of Young Leaders on Systems Change: Lessons from Jordan

Now available for replay is the latest Community of Practice (CoP) joint endeavor from Youthpower.org. In this match-up featuring the Middle East/North Africa Youth and Youth Systems Strengthening CoPs, attendees learn about best practices and challenges of young people, policymakers, and practitioners from the global south working on youth systems strengthening.

Are you interested in the why, how, and outcomes of systems change impacting young people in Jordan via the USAID Youth Power program? Then this video is for you. Watch now.

Participate in a Community of Practice!

YP2LE’s Communities of Practice (CoPs) are spaces where youth and youth-serving practitioners can come together to share ideas, tools, and build and test practical resources to advance PYD through sharing and collective learning. These communities are free and open to all. Register on YouthPower.org and then sign up for CoPs on the communities page:  

Business, Entrepreneurship, and Private-sector Engagement (BEPSE) CoP: focused on building skills in entrepreneurship and on collaboration with the private sector. Open to all sectors, the CoP will have an emphasis on agriculture initially, adding other sectors such as health, education, or transport based on member interest and feedback.
Youth Engagement CoP: focused on meaningful youth engagement in all aspects of programming.
Gender CoP: focused on integrated youth-centered and gender transformative programming through PYD.
Higher Education Engagement and Transformation (HEET) CoP: focused on engaging the international community to advance higher education and youth learning priorities and strengthening the link between PYD and sector programming through a systems-based approach.
Youth Systems Strengthening (YSS) CoP: focused on providing an open learning and sharing space that allows participants to understand more about the purposes, processes and outcomes associated with reforming systems that impact youth outcomes sustainably and at scale.
Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Youth CoP on YouthPower.org (English and Arabic): focused on youth and youth-serving stakeholders supporting PYD in the MENA region.

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