Engage young people

Start with these

1. Visitor question

   Nothing for older kids to do

   Visitor Question: I looked at your community improvement ideas, but our problem is something different. We need something for the kids to do. Once they

2. Visitor question

   Motivate Youths in Rural Communities

   How can we motivate youths? Editors' Reply: Usually when adults ask how to motivate rural youth, or urban youth for that matter,they mean how can I motivate

3. Visitor question

   How can we discourage groups of teenagers in the mall?

   Visitor Question: We have too many big groups of teenagers traveling in packs in our shopping mall. They are loud, they run over old ladies, and they

4. Visitor question

   How Can We Get Young People Interested in Voting?

   Visitor Question: Our little suburb has been plagued with some terrible elected city council people for several years now. Every time there is an election

5. Guide

   The Kids Can City Project

   Reviewed: June 19, 2024 Visitor Writes: I decided to make an ideal city called Uberstin for my Kids Can school project. I wanted to design a city where

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