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Challenges, Choices, Change
Challenges, Choices, and Change is a YELD series that speaks directly to what our youth experience every day. Young people face real challenges—at home, in school, and within themselves. But within every challenge or tempting distraction, there are choices. Choices about how to respond, how to show up, and how to move forward. This series highlights those moments and reminds youth that the decisions they make today can shape who they become tomorrow. When they understand their potential, embrace their power, and make intentional choices, they create meaningful change in their lives and in their communities.
EXCITING NEWS! The YELD Youth Survey is Now Live!
We’re thrilled to announce that the YELD Youth Survey is officially live! This survey is designed for young people ages 13–21 to share their honest perspectives on the challenges and choices they face today.
Their responses will help us:
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Compare youth insights with our research on the Top Ten Challenges Facing Today’s Youth
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Create meaningful activities, information, and resources that support positive youth development
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Share the link with young people and help us make an even greater impact in empowering youth voices and shaping future programs.
Survey Ends December 31, 2025
There is a need to develop the next generation of leaders and motivate our peers for self-reliance in employment, obtaining licenses, and handling money. There is also a need for generations to work together regardless of environment.
Male Youth,
Baltimore, Maryland
It is important to engage youth because we are only of glimpse of what we can be. If you do not connect with us now we can end up making the same mistakes as in the past and not learn from our experiences.
We have the ability to determine the kind of world we want to live in and change some of the views that we learned early in life.
College Student,
Chicago, Illinois
I feel most millennials have the mindset of life being a competition and having to perform better than the other. We want to be better than each other and with that, my generation lacks the ability to work together to accomplish similar goals.
I have noticed that if one person doesn't have what another person does, or if one's path looks completely different from their own, that is taken as a sign of discouragement... As if their path or life isn't as purposeful.