Article by Vivian Liu: “A group of teenagers is standing in front of a room of residents, government officials, and organizations. They are presenting findings from data they helped to collect. Their work speaks to urgent challenges in their communities, including displacement, air pollution, extreme heat, and lack of community spaces. For some of the teenagers, this is their first experience collecting data and contributing to solutions in their own communities.
Engaging teenagers and young adults in data collection, analysis, and dissemination improves the quality of the results, provides better information for policy and program responses, and supports the next generation of leaders.
In this fifth blog post in our Equity in Action series, we explore how four local organizations that received grants from the Local Data for Equitable Communities program are training and partnering with youth to be the voices shaping community-informed solutions…(More)”.
