Hear Our Voices: Military Teens Connect
Conversations with Military-Connected Youth and Adults
We can't wait to hear from you. Conversations with Military-Connected Youth and Adults provide spaces for military-connected teens (and adults who work with them to talk, laugh, and share). We will provide space to share hopes, dreams, challenges and more as we look at what's happening for teens in 2022. This is an excellent opportunity to come together virtually to talk about experiences and learn from each other...to hear each other's voices.
The teen talks are led by peer facilitators: teens talking with teens, adults talking with adults. Teens will share their experiences and hear from others. Adults working with military-connected youth will also be working with their peers in similar conversations. Our conversations will give us all a chance to share and help move our programs forward.
The CYFAR 4-H Military Partnership PDTA Project has partnered with the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development at the University of Georgia on this project. Following the series of conversations, we will share the collective experiences from youth and adults, identify innovations, opportunities, and challenges that have occurred, better understand the unique stressors for both youth and adults, and create recommendations for youth practice moving forward.
Get Involved
Serve as a Youth or Adult Facilitator
We are recruiting youth and adults to serve on the leadership team for the conversations. Youth ages 15 - 20 and adults are invited to serve as facilitators Facilitators attend orientation prior to their talk time and asked commit to facilitating at least 1 conversation. Any youth or adult interested in supporting military-connected youth are invited to apply. Teens do not need to be from a military-connected family to facilitate and adults do not need to work with military-connected youth. The best facilitators are interested in listening to their peers, in creating safe spaces for conversations, and supporting others as they talk about their experiences. Adult facilitators will be paired with teens in the role of support and recording information from the session.
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Participate in Military Teen Talk
Teens in grades 8th - 12th (fall 2022) from military-connected families and the adults who work with them are invited to participate in one of chats. We will offer several options for conversations all with the same formats and questions. Participation is open to any young person in 8th grade through senior year of high school who is part of a military-connected family. We are also seeking adults working with military-connected youth as staff or volunteers, on installations, in youth organizations, and in schools. Participants will connect electronically using Zoom. Teens will enjoy chatting with other teens in conversations led by teens and supported by adults while adults will participate in sessions led by an adult. Each person should be on a device as we can't accommodate groups on a shared device for the sessions.
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