Boulder's first-ever child-friendly city mapMore than 30 organizations and hundreds of children and parents are co-creating the nation's first child-friendly city map.
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Placemaking with Children and YouthRead this illustrated and essential guide to engaging children and youth in the process of urban design by Professor and former GUB Co-Coordinator Tori Derr, Professor and GUB Co-Founder Louise Chawla, and GUB Director and Co-Founder Mara Mintzer.
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TEDx talk: How kids can help design citiesThis talk by Growing Up Boulder Director Mara Mintzer describes the importance of young people's voice in designing their own cities. Viewed more than 1.7 million times, it features Growing Up Boulder's work.
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Growing Up Boulder, Boulder's “child and youth-friendly city initiative,” is a program of the University of Colorado Boulder's Community Design and Engagement Center (CEDaR). It began in the spring of 2009 as a partnership between the University of Colorado, the City of Boulder, Boulder Valley School District, former State Senator Dorothy Rupert, local non-profits and businesses, and children and youth from ages 0-18. Growing up Boulder (GUB) works with children to include their input in local government decisions, focusing on projects such as the design of public spaces, transit systems, housing, and resilience planning.
Child- and youth-friendly cities are locales in which children’s rights are reflected in local policies, laws, programs and budgets. These cities work to realize children’s rights as outlined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Growing Up Boulder's vision is to make Boulder an exemplary child- and youth-friendly city. Growing Up Boulder's mission is to empower Boulder's young people with opportunities for inclusion, influence, and deliberation on local issues that affect their lives.
GUB accomplishes this through many diverse partnerships and supporters. Because underrepresented children and youth are even less likely to have their voices heard than majority groups, the programs aims for 50% or more its participants to include young people who are: immigrants, English Language Learners, underresourced, ethnic minorities, first generation college-bound students and/or young people with disabilities.
Growing Up Boulder's goals are to:
1. Ensure meaningful opportunities for young people’s participation in Boulder decision-making.
2. Make Boulder a more inclusive place for children and youth of all income levels, ethnicities and abilities.
3. Give GUB partners a voice in setting the direction of GUB projects.
4. Disseminate lessons learned from GUB to the community (Boulder-at-large, youth, academics, GUB partners, other child-friendly city communities).
Child- and youth-friendly cities are locales in which children’s rights are reflected in local policies, laws, programs and budgets. These cities work to realize children’s rights as outlined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Growing Up Boulder's vision is to make Boulder an exemplary child- and youth-friendly city. Growing Up Boulder's mission is to empower Boulder's young people with opportunities for inclusion, influence, and deliberation on local issues that affect their lives.
GUB accomplishes this through many diverse partnerships and supporters. Because underrepresented children and youth are even less likely to have their voices heard than majority groups, the programs aims for 50% or more its participants to include young people who are: immigrants, English Language Learners, underresourced, ethnic minorities, first generation college-bound students and/or young people with disabilities.
Growing Up Boulder's goals are to:
1. Ensure meaningful opportunities for young people’s participation in Boulder decision-making.
2. Make Boulder a more inclusive place for children and youth of all income levels, ethnicities and abilities.
3. Give GUB partners a voice in setting the direction of GUB projects.
4. Disseminate lessons learned from GUB to the community (Boulder-at-large, youth, academics, GUB partners, other child-friendly city communities).
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Young people's input to the North Boulder Trail Study AreaAlmost 100 young people, ages 3-18, contributed time, energy, and ideas to the City of Boulder's North Boulder Trail Study Area (NBTSA) in 2015. Read their recommendations here.
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Growing Up Boulder is a partnership between the University of Colorado's Community Engagement Design and Research (CEDaR) Center,
Boulder Valley School District, and the City of Boulder.
Boulder Valley School District, and the City of Boulder.
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