Listening Session Summary: Focus on Youth Enrichment, Youth Engagement, Youth Mentoring, and Positive Youth Development (San Francisco, CA)

This summary is one of ten reports from a series of public listening sessions held by the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs (IWGYP) and supported and facilitated by AIR. The sessions will inform the development of a coordinated strategic plan for youth policy and were attended by federal, state, and local affiliates of youth serving organizations, service providers, youth, families, educators, researchers, and policymakers. The session held in San Francisco, CA focused specifically on youth enrichment, engagement, mentoring, and positive youth development. Summaries for the remaining sessions as well as those held at youth focused conferences, with youth, and with the children’s cabinet can be found at youth.gov.