Local Youth Xperts
MENTAL HEALTH AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES
Who can benefit from the tools
- decision-makers in the municipal council, the executive committee, the heads of upbringing and youth services board, or other main committees
- service managers, headteachers, project leaders, or advisors in the municipal administration
Those who are invited must receive understandable, engaging information about
- what the theme is and what the answers will be used for
- who is wondering about this and why these questions are being asked
- how the answers will be used
The responsibility of decision-makers when collecting answers from children and young people
- ensure that the participants receive a greeting or a video as thanks for taking part
- ensure that the participants know how they can get in touch if they have more to contribute or are wondering about something
- ensure that the participants are told how the answers they have contributed have been used as the basis for the decision and what weight it has been given. This can be done through a text, an audio file, or a video
- publish on the municipality’s website or social media how the answers have been used as the basis for the decision and what weight it has been given
Decision-makers can ask the administration to quickly collect responses from selected groups of children and/or young people on one or more specific questions. Children and young people answer digitally.
Decision-makers in the municipality can send questions directly to a group of children or young people in the municipality. They are invited to answer in order to contribute to making the municipality as good as possible for children. Children and young people can send advice or ideas directly to decision-makers.
Decision-makers and others who make decisions that affect children and young people in the municipality visit places where children and young people under the age of 18 are, in order to collect answers.
Employees in the municipal administration can collect experiences and advice from selected groups of children and young people in the municipality as part of the preparation of cases for political or administrative decisions.
Decision-makers or the administration collect experiences, advice or specific proposed solutions from children and young people by going out together with a group of young adults from the municipality or district.
Decision-makers or the administration collect experiences, advice or specific proposed solutions from children and young people together with a group of young adults from the municipality or district.
Decision-makers can collect advice from young people who drive cars, scooters/mopeds, snowmobiles, quad bikes and/or young people who cruise. Young people who drive are invited to contribute advice and ideas to help create the best possible municipality for young people like them.
Decision-makers collect experiences, advice and proposed solutions by organising dialogues with children and young people on different topics, in order to create the best possible municipality for those who will live in the municipality in the years to come.