Including young people in community building is of vital importance. According to Kretzmann, youth offer ideas and creativity, a connection to place, time to work and contribute, peers and family they can enlist to help, credibility as teachers, and boundless enthusiasm and energy. Kretzmann suggests following the guidelines. Find out what they like to do and are good at doing. Always look for the positive in the unique individual.
Every community is filled with useful work and service opportunities for young people.
The corollary of this is that there is no community, institution, or organization that cannot find a useful role for a young person. Always distinguish between real work and games or simulations, because young people can. Fight age segregation. Youth today are the most age-isolated generation in our history, to everyone's detriment. Avoid aggregating people, especially young people, by what they don't have.