Resources

The resources and organizations listed approach issues impacting young people from a variety of angles, some working for solutions within existing systems, some creating and advocating for alternatives that uproot the status quo.

For young people: To quote Eric Liu, you're more powerful than you think.  These resources will help you gain the knowledge and social power in order to make change in your life and in the lives of other young people like you.  Browse away, and share these resources with your friends, and if you're comfortable, with adults in your life as well!

For adults: We have the responsibility to act as allies for children and youth in a society that disenfrachises them, discounts their voices, needs, and power.  Please share these resources with the children and youth who are in your life, and use the resources to educate yourself on issues impacting young people today and on the solutions that people are proposing (and living).

This list is continually being revised and expanded upon.  If you have a suggestion for a resource that is not currently listed, please email freeingchild (at) gmail (dot) com.

Youth Rights & Liberation

National Youth Rights Association https://www.youthrights.org (Note: Margin, the composer of  freeing child, was on the board of NYRA from Jun. 2019-Dec. 2020 and served as its president from Jul. 2020-Dec. 2020.)

Pacific Northwest Youth Liberation Front https://pnwylf.noblogs.org

Freechild Institute for Youth Engagement https://freechild.org

Unsilenced https://www.unsilenced.org  Advocates for the end of the Troubled Teen Industry.

Youth-Led Activism

Fridays for Future https://fridaysforfuture.org Global youth-led climate activism

Sunrise Movement https://www.sunrisemovement.org  U.S.-specific climate activism led by youth and young adults

Emergency Contraception for Every Campus https://www.ec4ec.org/

Generation Amp, a project being developed as part of Citizen University's Youth Power Program https://generationamplify.wixsite.com/genamp/blog 

Check out Advocates for Youth's Youth Activist Toolkit: https://advocatesforyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Youth-Activist-Toolkit.pdf

Student Rights / School Issues

Student Voice https://www.stuvoice.org

GLSEN https://www.glsen.org

Neurodivergent U https://www.neurodivergentu.com

Youth Celebrate Diversity https://ycdiversity.org

Self-Directed Education

Alliance for Self-Directed Education https://www.self-directed.org 

The Teenage Liberation Handbook https://teenageliberation.space/ 

Untigering https://untigering.com

Raising Free People https://raisingfreepeople.com

Peer Unschooling Network https://peerunschooling.net    Check out their Discord!

Agile Learning Centers https://agilelearningcenters.org

Multi-Age Communities

Stim Punks https://stimpunks.org

The Unschool Files (in particular, their Discord and Patreon) https://www.theunschoolfiles.com