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"Through the framework CARTA has created, there is intentionality to bring youth into the work. That particular emphasis around youth...[creates a] unique blend of work with a research focus." —Frank Omowale Satterwhite, founder and president, National Community Development Institute |
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Our Approach
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CARTA works with community-based organizations, state, and national intermediaries to make complex ideas about positive youth development and adolescent health simple and realistic.
Our approach consists of four steps:
- CONDUCTING research and analysis to uncover what is needed to grow young people's potential, dismantle inequality, and promote social justice.
- CREATING tools, products, resources, and activities that youth-serving professionals, policy makers, and others can use to respond to the needs of young people and monitor organizational and policy-related actions.
- ENGAGING community-based organizations, state, and national intermediaries to use resources to build awareness of critical issues, support responsive action and promote effective policy and programs.
- COLLABORATING with national, state, and local partners to share lessons learned; redesign research, tools and capacity-building work, as needed; apply ideas to everyday efforts; and to promote collective action to generate systems and programmatic reform.
Our philosophy to create lasting systemic and social change is most prominent in the following core concepts:
The Structural Racism Framework
The Emerging Leaders Model
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