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Today’s young people face a society that needs their voices, abilities, and motivation to fight racism, inequality, poverty, climate change, injustice, and much more.

Dr. Marilyn Price-Mitchell shows how families, schools, and communities play critical roles in raising and educating tomorrow’s citizens. Passion-filled American youth describe the relationships, experiences, and challenges that shaped their young lives of service, civic engagement, and commitment to causes bigger than themselves.

Tomorrow’s Change Makers links the latest research on youth civic engagement with positive youth development, and provides practical, research-based advice for educators, youth organizations, and parents.

This book will show you how to:

• Cultivate eight core abilities that support youth development and engaged citizenship, helping children chart meaningful pathways through life and fulfilling roles in democracy and civil society.
  
  
• Listen and encourage young people to share their stories—to understand their stories as pieces woven into the fabric of American society.
  
  
• Inspire youth to connect to a personally meaningful cause, like racial equity, poverty, education, criminal justice—whatever motivates them from within.
  
  
• Help young people transform volunteering, service learning, and civic engagement experiences beyond a requirement for college resumes to value-defining opportunities for personal growth and citizenship development.
  
  
• Use effective mentoring, coaching, and parenting practices that help young people believe in themselves and their abilities to improve the world.
  
  
• Encourage challenging and meaningful civic learning opportunities for every child, based on their unique strengths and interests.
  
  
• Scaffold engaged citizenship in children of all ages.
  
  
• Support youth as they overcome the many challenges involved in making positive social change.

Marilyn Price-Mitchell, PhD, is a developmental psychologist, researcher, writer, and speaker. A fellow at the Institute for Social Innovation at Fielding Graduate University, her research focuses on positive youth development—how young people become caring family members, innovative workers, ethical leaders, and engaged citizens in an increasingly complex society. With extensive experience in the fields of human and organization development, leadership studies, complexity science, and education, Marilyn has consulted for diverse organizations, including schools, nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies. She is a parent, stepparent, grandparent, and longtime community leader who has worked tirelessly to build partnerships between families, schools, and communities. Marilyn writes a research-based blog for parents, educators, and youth mentors at RootsOfAction.com; authors a regular column for Psychology Today; and is a contributor to Edutopia.