The Voices Program
Expanding Youth + Family Voice: Joint Initiatives (JI) works to direct community-wide family and youth engagement efforts to ensure JI and/or partners utilize effective approaches to support a community where children, youth, and their families achieve their desired outcomes.
Program Overview
The Voices Program ensures that JI’s and our partners’ services are guided by youth and family voices. Towards these ends, the program promotes effective approaches such as restorative justice, and two-generational programming, to support a community where children, youth, and their families achieve their desired outcomes.
PURPOSE
The purpose of the Voices Program is to ensure that the voice of youth and families who receive services both inform and guide JI’s and its partners’ efforts.
Expanding Family Voice
Joint Initiatives (JI) works to direct community-wide family and youth engagement efforts to ensure JI and/or partners utilize effective approaches to support a community where children, youth, and their families achieve their desired outcomes.
Centering around Youth and Families in our Community
JI is passionate about the role youth and families have in determining their destiny and allowing them to not only survive, but thrive.
JI’s Voices program centers its efforts on building a thriving community of children, youth, and families on key elements, including:
JI employs Youth + Family Advocates as part of its commitment to ensuring the expansion of youth and family voice.
JI builds community connection through conversation by offering information on Practice Circles and Peer Support Circles.
