Strategies

1. Create youth involvement levels from one-time experience, progressing to leadership development, role modeling and mentoring

2. Hold all youth accountable to respect, conduct and college-level personal responsibility

3. Seek opportunities for youth to connect with and build equity within their community through service-learning and sustained place-based education

4. Offer natural resource science as a potential career path via higher education

5. Provide leadership, community outreach and civics training within the framework of core curriculum

6. Reward positive outcomes with stipends, work-experience opportunities

7. Provide youth real connections to the local business community

8. Outreach to new schools 

Youth Enviro Squad tackle invasive weeds in a public easement along Pringle Creek for Make A Difference Day; and also around the Gordon House next to the Oregon Garden 

1. Sustain partnerships and networks with public agencies and the local private sector

2. Share successes, challenges, resources

3. Support realistic processes that build consensus and measurable progression

4. Seek on-the-ground projects - both one-time and sustainable - that include youth

5. Build sustainability advocacy through workshops and activities 

1. Offer local youth a global voice through Caretakers of the Environment

     International

2.  Build ongoing relationships with local youth and peer schools around

the world by utilizing science and technology to bridge the gap

3.  Compare related projects and other similar pathways toward

sustainability