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10/07 Youth Chat Recap

Welcome back! Here is a quick review on the blog, every Thursday there is a new post that recaps the weekly SPAN youth chat and includes its highlights and resources. Feel free to connect with us in the comments section or email blog post ideas that could be featured here!

On Wed., 10/7, the youth had a discussion and took part in a mix/match activity on the four parts of civic engagement, or the making a difference in the civic life of one's community and developing knowledge, skills, values, and motivation to make that difference. Here are the four parts:

Civic Action -  Taking a part in volunteering, service-learning, or any task to help better the community. For example, cleaning your local parks or lending a hand at a community fundraiser

Civic Duty - The willingness to make positive contributions to society, for example, voting, filling out the census, or donating aid to communities affected by natural disasters like wildfires!

Civic Skills - The ability to be involved in civic society and democracy like attending a back-to-school night or participating in student, local, or state government. 

Social Cohesion - A sense of trust and bonding with others, so being a part of community drives, block parties, or shopping at your local mom and pop shop. 

The youth and young adults who were part of yesterday's chat shared their civic engagement experiences: a young adult was vice president of their high school's student government and other youth donated blood at a drive for a local hospital. 

Have you recently volunteered? Do you have any civic engagement experiences to share? Share with us in the comment section! If not, here is an idea, join us in next week's youth chat! We challenge you to bring a friend and share this blog so they can subscribe. Taking part in a youth-driven community for youth is a good example of civic engagement.

Author,

Jeremy Hayer

Resources:

  1. The SPAN Youth Chat: the-span-youth-chat

  2. New Jersey: Election Tools, Deadlines, Dates, Rules, and Links: https://www.vote.org/new-jersey/

  3. New Jersey Voting Information: https://www.vote411.org/new-jersey

  4. Nonprofit VOTE: https://www.nonprofitvote.org/

  5. NJ Census 2020: http://census2020nj.org

  6. Subscribe to SPAN's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SPANAdvocacy

  7. Link to SPAN's website: https://spanadvocacy.org/

  8. Link to SPAN’s Youth In the Know Resource Page: Youth in the Know

  9. We’re here for you!  Call SPAN if you need assistance: 1-800-654-7726

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