Implement

In the Implement stage, the focus is on taking action to make your community stronger. In this stage and each of the four stages, grassroots organizations and their leaders have found that there are 5 guiding principles that are important to keep in mind. Click on each guiding principle to find resources related to it.

1. Foster Youth-Adult Partnerships
2. Mobilize Community Assets
3. Tap into Individual Gifts
4. Build Teamwork
5. Reflect and Learn

Below we list tools and activities for each of the five guiding principles within the Implement stage.

1. Foster Youth-Adult Partnerships
   • Visioning/Evaluation
   • Creating Youth-Adult Partnerships: Adult Workshop
   • Solving Challenges Together
   • Preceiving Limits
   • What's your role?
   • Trading cards
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2. Mobilize Community Assets
   • Connecting Youth Leadership to Your Organization's Mission
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3. Tap into Individual Gifts
   • Tips for Success
   • Where Are You Coming From?  Looking at Shared Leadership
   • My Partner's Gifts
   • Circle Energizer
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4. Build Teamwork
   • Teams and Roles Activity
   • Establishing a Decision-Making Protocol
   • Team Meetings for Action Steps
   • Superstar
   • Project Development: Traditional Roles
   • Teams and Roles
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5. Reflect and Learn
   • Assessments: Tracking Youth-Adult Partnerships Over Time
   • Picture Perfect Partnerships
   • Head, Heart, and Feet
   • Talking it Over: Learning to Give and Receive Feedback
   • Developing an Evaluation Timeline
   • What's up?
   • Teaching and Learning
   • Making Faces
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