Provide multiple opportunities for youth to engage in public works to make things of lasting value for our communities and our commonwealth. Young peoples intelligence, talents, experiences, and energy deserve respect. Provide opportunity for youth to think, ask critical questions, gain opinions and bring forward their creative insights. Public work and skill building link together. Provide youth the opportunity to develop emotional, social, intellectual, and civic skills through public work that create things of value.
Young people participate in governance.
Place youth in positions of responsibility and create multiple opportunities for them to learn skills of governance, participate in decision making about what is done and how it is done. Young people and adults develop committed, reciprocal relationships. Create personal relationships with parents and other adults as sources of support and caring, and public relationships that are strategic sources of power for effective action. These relationships are deepened through work of importance, and take time to develop. Cooperative action is valued.