Purposes/goals

a) What is the relationship of youth participation to the organization's goals and core mandate?

b) What were the reasons for organization to involve youth in decision making?

• elected officials initiated it

• senior staff initiated it

• professional staff initiated it

• a request came from youth

• external policy directives

• trying to respond to internal or external youth problems

c) What are the expected or delivered outcomes?

• for youth leaders

• for youth audience

• for health determinants

d) What is the history of organization's involvement of youth in decision-making? (Identify positive and negative implications)

e) What is the history of organization's involvement of parents in decision-making?

Audience

a) What is the size of the youth audience?

b) What is the age of the youth audience?

c) What are the demographics of youth audience or community?

d) Can you characterize the sub-culture of the youth audience (eg. activists, preppie, jock, rocker, etc.)?

e) Can you characterize the youth culture of the youth leaders (eg. activist, preppie, jock, rocker, etc.)

Assigned Resources

a) Is there a designated budget for youth involvement?

b) Is there a designated office space for youth involvement?

c) What is the adult staff to youth leader ratio?

d) What is the adult volunteer to youth audience ratio?

e) What is the paid staff to youth audience ratio (including trained youth leaders)

f) Does the program depend on support from the private sector or voluntary organizations?

g) Do other mandated (publicly funded) agencies or institutions contribute funding to the program? (including staff time)?

Sustainability

a) What is the duration of involvement of individuals?

-as paid youth leaders (# of years ) (# of participants)

-as trained youth volunteers (# of years) (# of participants)

-as untrained youth volunteers(# of years) (# of events)

-as youth audience members (# of years') ((# of events)

Policy Framework

a) Is there a formal written policy statement for youth participation?

b) Is there a formal written plan for youth participation?

c) Are there formal written staff assignments for youth participation?

d) Is there a separate budget item for youth participation?

Open ended Questions

a) Describe your best example of youth participation in decision making

What are you doing to make this happen again?

b) Describe your worst example of youth participation in decision- making

What are you doing to prevent this from happening again?

c) What is the single greatest impediment to better youth involvement in decision-making?

d) What would help you most to improve youth participation in decision-making?