Adult Youth Partnership Workshop Survey Results

A74. Youth survey: Open-ended question: What are the biggest barriers inbeing partners with adults?What are the biggest barriers in being partners with adults?Adults give all the ideas and information.Adults might not listen to the kids’ ideas.Age difference, adults don’t know what’s new.Age level.I don’t know.Making them realize I have good ideas and listening to me.Maturity levels (some adults don’t think we’re smart because we’re kids).Not being treated equally.Sometimes insist on their ideas or don’t listen.Sometimes they think they are better.The adults take charge usually.Their understanding.They aren’t into the latest stuff so they don’t always agree with things.They don’t always think you can really do anything.They don’t always understand things.They try to control and don’t have as much fun.Times are different.We think differently.We think differently. I feel like I’m being judged sometimes.ATOD: Creating Community 77 Wilder Research, July 2009Adult Youth Partnership Workshop survey results