---
title: "Tribal Leadership Series: Youth Engagement"
description: "**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…"
url: "https://bridges4mentalhealth.org/hub/youth-family-engagement/tribal-leadership-series-youth-engagement/"
updated: "2026-07-31"
category: Engagement of Lived Experience
tags:
  - Audience
  - Tipsheet
  - Tribes
---

# Tribal Leadership Series: Youth Engagement

**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

 

[Read More](https://www.nicwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Youth-Engagement-for-Tribal-Leaders.pdf)

 

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