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Power Within Activity Toolkit for Adolescents and Youth

This Power Within activity toolkit builds on decades of CARE’s program design, implementation, and research with young people. This toolkit can be used as a resource for those designing and implementing programs for adolescents and young adults aged 10-24. The set of activities here may be borrowed and adapted to the needs of participant groups, the contexts in which they live, and the topical focus of a particular program.

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This Power Within activity toolkit builds on decades of CARE’s program design, implementation, and research with young people. It is intended to be used together with the 2024 Power Within Competency Framework for Adolescents and Youth.

Power Within (PW) builds critical competencies for adolescents and youth (10-24 years old), giving them internal resources to inform their decisions and transitions as they grow from children into young adults. The model contains three competency domains – strong self-image, strong mind, and strong voice. – with sequenced competencies and a fourth, foundational domain of well-being. The competencies included are transferable, which means that they can be applied in many situations, and they can be practiced throughout program activities in most, if not all, of CARE’s direct work with this impact group.

This toolkit can be used as a resource for those designing and implementing programs for adolescents and young adults aged 10-24. It offers a menu of activities for developing the competencies in CARE’s competency model. The set of activities here may be borrowed and adapted to the needs of participant groups, the contexts in which they live, and the topical focus of a particular program.

For example, planning activities for adolescents 10-14 years old, and planning activities for youth 20-24 years old will require different approaches and activities. This toolkit provides sample activities that may be adapted to fit the profiles of the young people who are participating in activities. It is not a curriculum or a program guide but may be used to assist the development or adaptation of those materials.

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