Youth Engagement Committee
Wednesday April 2, 2014, 10 – 11:30am
United Way of Central New Mexico, 2340 Alamo Ave SE, 1stFloor

Objective: Identify three strategies to align YEC with the Network Action Plan, including at least one strategy to engage RFK students.

  1. Introductions
  2. Eight people attended the meeting.
  1. Discuss Notes from March 11th
  1. Align Action Plan with Youth Engagement
  2. Strategies discussed included:
  3. Host a forum for all existing youth groups
  4. Replicate American Graduate media with youth
  5. PSAs
  6. Short interviews with students
  7. Assets-based approach that respects students’ solutions
  8. Follow 10 students as they progress through school
  9. Tell their stories
  10. Support and stay connected
  11. Connect with students who are representative of the population
  12. Engage students as Action Plan advisors
  13. Provide training for students to share resources with each other
  14. Unidoscredit recovery grid
  15. Family Engagement Policy
  16. Flyer on lottery scholarship
  17. Selected three
  18. Engage 10 youth advisors from orientation group from RFK
  19. Advisors from orientation group advises Mission: Graduate on youth engagement strategies and tools by engaging in a conversation about what the community can do within the Action Plan proposal areas
  20. It would be great to provide stipends/payments/incentives to advisors
  21. Train student advisors to share resources offered through Mission: Graduate and provide on-going opportunities to engage
  1. Logistics of youth meetings at RFK
  2. Who will be part of the initial engagement?
  3. Orientation group and home team students
  4. Youth advisory group to Mission: Graduate
  5. What will the group do?
  6. Spring ’14 - Provide feedback on Action Plan to co-design effective solutions
  7. Fall ’14 – Share information and resources with peers relevant to Action Plan proposal areas
  8. When
  9. 1st meeting during the week of April 21, 2014
  10. Continue meeting into Fall 2015
  11. Where
  12. RFK Charter School
  13. Internal/external moderators
  14. Both – Internal staff will introduce ideas and help bridge trust; external moderators can guide the process and take notes
  15. Questions to ask (examples)
  16. Why are you here? What do you like about school?
  17. Why do you show up?
  18. What would you say to friend’s parents/ teachers/ admins/community that they could do to help your friend be successful?
  19. What would you say to your parents about why it’s important to come to school?
  20. What can others do to help you be more successful in school?
  21. What keeps you from giving up if you find yourself behind?
  22. What would help you catch up?
  23. Why graduate? Why drop out? Why drop in?
  24. Sheri Williams mentioned she used these questions during a summit
  1. Other Business
  2. Additional youth groups with which to partner
  3. Youth Councils and other ongoing youth groups for sustainability
  4. Juvenile Detention/Juvenile Justice– Youth Reporting Center
  5. Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities (RRED)
  6. SHAC (student health action committee?)
  7. Next steps
  8. Next meeting April 9th 10am at RFK Charter