Morrisville Active Kids Strategic Plan

Active Kids Strategic Plan

Promotion & Education

Strategy: Incorporate youth into the design process and planning for new facilities and programs

Often youth-focused programming, planning and decision making do not account the input from youth who would ultimately benefit. Youth input factors current realities facing today’s youth, including attitudes, beliefs, challenges, and level of awareness.

Action Steps for Implementation

Task 1 

Task 3 

Institute a model whereas youth input is factored in policy, planning, and design decisions. Work with the Morrisville Youth Leadership Council or other youth group to help develop this model.

Develop a preset list to continue conducting summer focus groups, like those engaged during this strategic plan at Camp Cedar Fork, to gather input on evolving youth preferences. If plans are underway, this forum is an easy way to implement Task 1.

Task 2 

Utilize the Morrisville Youth Leadership Council or other youth group to serve as an ad hoc youth advisory council to focus on specific issues, given past challenges in supporting a full-scale advisory board. If there is interest to keep supporting it, then a regular youth advisory board may be formed. Any level of youth advisory board will ensure youth representation and input in decisions impacting youth.

Resources Generation On: Establishing a Youth Advisory Council, http://www.generationon.org/ files/resources/game_changers_yac_toolkit.pdf

Potential Partners: 

Local public and private schools

Morrisville Town Council

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Forum for Youth Investment: Building Effective Youth Councils, http://forumfyi.org/ files/Building%20Effective%20Youth%20Final.pdf

Planning Department

Parks, Recreation & Cultural Resources Department Public Information Officer

Examples City of Winston-Salem, NC http://www.cityofws.org/home-center/public-meetings/advisory-boards-and- commissions/youth-advisory-council-winston-salem City of Greenville, NC http://www.greenvillenc.gov/government/city-council/boards-and-commissions/youth- council

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Morrisville Youth Leadership Council

Evaluation Measures:  Youth council is established or youth are engaged regularly in planning processes using the Morrisville Youth Leadership Council.

City of Sugar Hill, GA https://cityofsugarhill.com/government/boards-commissions/youth-council-2/

April 25, 2017

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