Planning with Youth

Using Our Voices: Young Girls in Architecture
Shirl Buss October 13, 2025November 12, 2025
21CSLA Leading for Justice Summit 2025: Y-PLAN Students as Co-Leaders
Ruby Kosewicz-Strickland, Deborah McKoy July 3, 2025November 11, 2025
A Decade+ of Resilience: The TOMODACHI SoftBank Summer Leadership Program at UC Berkeley
Deborah L. McKoy, David Beiser April 2, 2025November 13, 2025
A Decade+ of Resilience: The TOMODACHI SoftBank Summer Leadership Program at UC Berkeley

We are pleased to share the publication of A Decade of Resilience: TOMODACHI SoftBank Summer Leadership Program at UC Berkeley (2012-2024).

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Empowerment as Prevention: How Youth-Driven Initiatives Transform Frameworks for Change

Youth-led action research has significantly influenced local and statewide policies aimed at supporting students experiencing homelessness in California. This study employs a Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) methodology, summarizing five years of research conducted by high school student cohorts and UC Berkeley graduate students to examine effective strategies for preventing and addressing student homelessness. The…

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Transforming loss into leadership: Empowering Japanese youth to rebuild after historic disaster
Deborah McKoy March 10, 2025October 27, 2025
Empowerment as Prevention: How Youth-Driven Initiatives Transform Frameworks for Change
Deborah L. McKoy, Ruby Kosewicz-Strickland, and Pixie Popplewell March 10, 2025October 27, 2025
Catalyzing Action Exchange Conference: Building an Equitable Educational System Centering Students Experiencing Homelessness
Deborah McKoy March 10, 2025November 12, 2025
CC+S Global Corner: Expanding the Y-PLAN Method in Japan
Toshinori Ohashi January 9, 2025April 2, 2025
Y-HEAR Oct 27 Convening brings state leaders, practitioners, and researchers together
CC+S Staff November 12, 2023May 1, 2025
Y-PLAN student report published by UCLA’s Center for Community Schooling
Y-PLAN Team August 10, 2023April 2, 2025
April is Fair Housing Month!
Camila, Keyri, Yasmin, Fiona, Jack, and Aleah April 19, 2023April 2, 2025
Y-PLAN News and Views – January 2023
CC+S Staff January 31, 2023April 2, 2025
Y-PLAN Scholars Turn Story into Policy
Y-PLAN Team January 18, 2023April 2, 2025
Op-ed on Y-PLAN San Rafael published in Marin Independent Journal
CC+S Staff October 17, 2022May 1, 2025
Student and Teacher Transformation Through Y-PLAN
Young Whan Choi September 28, 2022April 2, 2025
Forging New Pathways: Mobilizing Youth as Agents of Change in California’s Homeless Education Policy

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Sacramento Y-PLAN Regional Hub Update
Y-PLAN Team March 9, 2022April 2, 2025
Cal Poly Pomona builds upon Y-PLAN methods to bring planning and placemaking to Long Beach Teens
Y-PLAN Team March 5, 2022April 2, 2025
Y-PLAN San José Hub Partners with SJ Department of Transportation and Vision Zero for Safer Streets
Professor Ellen Middaugh and Yasmeen Ramos, SJSU March 3, 2022April 2, 2025