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.
Frequently asked questions
Giving young people a voice in those things that impact their lives, including school or programs, empowers them and makes them feel like they belong, they are valued, and their contributions matter. These feelings of competency also help youth fully engage and develop team-building and leadership skills.
Many people speak with their voice every day — to talk to people, to communicate their needs and wants — but the idea of “voice” goes much deeper. Having a voice gives an individual a sense of agency and power, allows for the expression of beliefs, and creates meaningful dialogue during decision-making processes.
Each family has unique needs and our Family Support Line offers assistance in navigating the many resources available to families with young children.
Call us at 719.205.2691 to:
- Get connected to parenting events, workshops, and classes
- Find child care
- Receive support to navigate resources in El Paso County
- Learn more about early intervention services or Child Find
- Receive a copy of our Community Resource Directory
- Learn about kindergarten transition and get connected to school readiness resources
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