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Question: What do youth need from adults?

Youth Answers:

• Patience, understanding, some room to move and grow, acceptance, protection, love, guidance, enthusiastic interest.
• Trust and support.
• Space.
• Young people need to be told that whatever they want is within their reach. At the same time they also need a balance of people who are going to tell them to get to work, and make use of their lives.
• It's about support for picking a dream/passion then a gentle (or maybe a little harder) push to tell the youth to get off their butts and do it.
• Youth need adults to trust them. Being a young person you can feel like adults are constantly telling you how to act or what to say without giving you the space to shape your own identity or future.
• I think that youth want to get noticed for something other than getting in trouble ;)
• I think what every youth needs is different. Personally me, I know that I need understanding, when it comes to not being able to get something done.
• The ability to not feel afraid when calling for help in an unfavourable situation.
• Understanding; the chance to screw up as well as the chance to be forgiven.
• Attention, knowledge, and guidance.
• Love, respect and freedom.
• Love. (repeated many times)
• Food, water, shelter, money, clothes
• We need them to be there to talk to and they need to treat us as equals.
• Support, love, happiness, open arms, shoulder to cry on, an ear to listen.
• To know there is always someone there who will understand why you did something.
• Respect the need for individuality.
• Space, respect, time, friendships, and proper teaching.

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