Validate the thinking of your youth partners. Welcome their ideas. Be careful about interrupting. Youth are easily discouraged. Don't expect more from the youth than you would from another adult.
Young people have pressures and schedules just like adults.
Work together to determine deadlines, meetings, and responsibilities. Remember that your role in partnership is not to parent. Use the following steps to help you through the grant writing process. Identify the situation that relates to your project. Prepare a brief statement about the actual problem your group will attempt to solve.