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Growing Up Boulder and help ensure that young people have a voice in their cities!
Growing Up Boulder and help ensure that young people have a voice in their cities!
Growing Up Boulder is a “child and youth-friendly city initiative” that is a program at 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, the 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 get their input into local government decision-making and city planning such as designing parks and public spaces.
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. Our vision is to make Boulder an exemplary child- and youth-friendly city. We accomplish this through many diverse partnerships and supporters.
Growing Up Boulder's goals:
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. Our vision is to make Boulder an exemplary child- and youth-friendly city. We accomplish this through many diverse partnerships and supporters.
Growing Up Boulder's goals:
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).
Placemaking with Children
Read 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.
Order a copy of Placemaking with Children and Youth here. |
Child-Friendly City MapThroughout the 2018-19 school year, Growing Up Boulder is working with more than 30 organizations and hundreds of children and parents to create "Boulder's First Ever Child-Friendly City Map."
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Boulder's Child-Friendly
To support the project, please fill out the official survey for Boulder's Child-Friendly City Map. There are two surveys--one for children and one for parents or caregivers. The surveys are short and should only take a few minutes to complete; the survey closes Saturday, December 15. By filling out these surveys, you will help create a new map for Boulder’s children!
In addition to the link, below is a QR code you may also use. Please share this far and wide! 
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Share Your News!As a current or former student, intern, friend, or partner of GUB, you are very important to us and forever part of the GUB family. To build an ever-expanding network of advocates for children and youth voices, we want to feature the good work of our GUB family.
Fill out the following survey (below), and we'll feature you on our website and Facebook page. Thanks for staying connected! ~The GUB Team |
TEDx Talk Featured on TEDTED has selected Growing Up Boulder Director, Mara Minter's, TEDx Talk to be featured on their main platform launching on November 7th at 4:00pm EST. Her talk, "We let kids design our city-- here's what happened," will be available at go.ted.com/maramintzer.
Mara Mintzer, Director of Growing Up Boulder, spoke at at TEDxMileHigh's WONDER about the importance of young people's voice in designing their own cities.
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To stay up to date on all our latest work and events, follow us on Instagram: growing_up_boulder or Facebook: Growing Up Boulder
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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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