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Developing Leaders and Strengthening Communities
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Youth participation is an obviously good idea, and yet it is not necessarily easy to put into practice. By its very nature, it challenges our usual way of doing business with young people. As prevention expert William Lofquist notes, youth participation means that adults are working with young people, rather than developing and delivering services for them or to them. 1 As young people move beyond the role of "passive recipients of good intentions" (Lofquist's phrase), a dynamic new relationship can emerge if it is carefully and consciously nurtured.