Summary: This guide provides information for tribal leaders on how to successfully engage youth, it includes:
• Information on the importance of youth engagement
• Levels of youth engagement and youth and adult partnerships
• Practices to support youth and youth engagement tools
• Trauma-informed practices for youth engagement
• Examples of how to work through differences and best practices
Application: This guide can help tribal leaders build knowledge and skills, while also incorporating their own tribe’s cultural traditions and practices, around youth
engagement.
Source: National Indian Child Welfare Association