Youth participation and community change seeks to shift the viewpoint from youth as being problems to empowering them to enact positive social change the book explores community agency efforts to. Youth participation and community change seeks to shift the viewpoint from youth as being problems to empowering them to enact positive social change the book explores community agency efforts to involve young people and the process by which youth civic engagement promotes empowerment social work and public health approaches are examined with cogent discussions on conceptual and theoretical issues empirically based case studies illustrate best practices and interdisciplinary . Youth participation and community change seeks to shift the viewpoint from youth as being problems to empowering them to enact positive social change the book explores community agency efforts to involve young people and the process by which youth civic engagement promotes empowerment social work and public health approaches are examined with cogent discussions on conceptual and . Young people who view themselves as change agents and adults who are their allies are instrumental to this approachsocial workers are strategically situated to promote youth participation but many of them have been conditioned to care about young people rather than to empower them