Teen Action Toolkit: Building a Youth-Led Response to Teen Victimization

Teen Action Toolkit: Building a Youth-led Response to Teen Victimization is a hands-on implementation guide for the Teen Action Partnership for Teen Victims program. TAP for Teen Victims is a program that marshals the strengths of youth as leaders to transform their communities' response to teenage victims of crime, while building the resilience of the youth participants at the same time. The Teen Action Toolkit is intended as a resource for educators, law enforcement personnel, outreach workers, victim service providers, youth workers, teens, and others who might be interested in starting a youth-led effort to improve local policies, outreach, and services for adolescent crime victims. The toolkit provides a blueprint for engaging youth in community problem-solving around the issue of teen victimization. It includes "how-to" guidance on the four phases of the TAP for Teen Victims program (community assessment, outreach, advocacy, and peer victim service), and includes ideas for activities and reflections. (authors)