The Young Leaders Collaboration curriculum in this toolkit was created and implemented by the Metropolitan Council as the 2023 Young Leader’s Collaboration, a civic engagement project to inform regional policy for the Regional Development Guide Imagine 2050. The curriculum was used a second time, adapted for youth and adults, in 2024. In total, nine organizations participated over two cycles of the curriculum in 2023 and 2024, with 80 participants aged 14 to 45. The result was a prioritized set of engagement findings to inform regional policy in land use, housing, parks, and transportation.
This curriculum was designed for public policy writers who want to:
- Create power-sharing collaboration possibilities with youth and adults through exchanging information and valuing lived experience.
- ​Center youth and community voices in public policy.
- Build individual and group capacity for civic engagement.
- Imagine new ways to engage youth and other ages for policy development.
The toolkit is broken down by step below. This can be used by public policy writers that want to create collaboration and engagement opportunities with youth and other ages to guide policy development for free with attribution to the Metropolitan Council.