YouthCARES

Using Research to Empower Youth and Educators

to Make a More Just and Sustainable World

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Empowering

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Intergenerational

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Action

What is YouthCARES?

YouthCARES is a research-practice partnership that brings together high school and undergraduate students, educators, and researchers to co-design climate justice curriculum and promote civic action.

Why does this work matter?

YouthCARES is a research-practice partnership that brings together high school and undergraduate students, educators, and researchers to co-design climate justice curriculum and promote civic action. The project's Module is to empower high school students to develop critical awareness of the climate crisis and environmental injustice, allowing students to take collective action for a more equitable, just and sustainable future. YouthCARES explores how collaborative, transdisciplinary learning can amplify youth voices and advance the role of education in the climate justice movement.

Students in the Honors Interdisciplinary Climate Education (HICE) course learn how to restore a degraded landscape by volunteering at the Native Seed Farm with the Irvine Ranch Conservancy.
Students in the Honors Interdisciplinary Climate Education (HICE) course take climate action on their campus, restoring ecosystems by planting native plants.
A Northwood High School student urges officials to expand the IrvineCONNECT shuttle route to Yale-Barranca, as part of the Honors Interdisciplinary Climate Education (HICE). The expansion not only serves Northwood High School students, but ensures efforts to mitigate carbon emissions by reducing car trips, and promoting shared public transit in Irvine.
The YouthCARES team presented their work at the national American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference in Philadelphia, sharing an iPOSTER titled, “Amplifying the Voices of Youth to Improve School Lunch and Mitigate Climate Crisis.”