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One of the root causes behind several failed youth initiatives has been the lack of youth involvement in the actual planning of the initiative. It's disappointing to me to see the amount of resources that are put into wonderful ideas to support and engage LGBTQ youth that are essentially wasted when the organizers don't get the response they were hoping for. Sometimes the missing piece is something rather small, could have been easily addressed and jumps right out at a young person. Often times when I'm told that engaging young people is a waste of time or too unmanageable to do, I discover that the person's experience has mostly been with these types of "doing work on behalf of youth" projects.
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