Sarah Schulman
Sarah is a specialist in the area of youth and led our youth work (Loops) during the initial project phase. As a thirteen year old, she founded Youth Infusion, a youth-run organisation set-up to provide technical assistance and capacity building to organisations targeting youth, but not yet meaningfully engaging youth in decision-making. Through Youth Infusion, Sarah helped develop integrated health and education policy for all levels of government.
Sarah is a Stanford graduate and a 2005 Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University where she will receive her doctorate in social policy in 2010. Sarah is currently in Australia as a co-director of InWithFor.
Blog Posts
Get your loops here
Our summer prototype of Loops has ended, but our learning about how to enable youth and community development has really just begun.
Test driving a new youth services model
We're at the prototyping phase of our youth work.
A stronger duty of care
Introducing the good adolescence
Reach out has just finished the first of four phases of work in Brighton-Hove and Croydon.
Raising aspiration
A front page Guardian article announces new strategies for addressing youth ambition...
Independence or interdependence?
How can we better understand the concept of connectedness?
Youth and the street corner society
Adults name young people 'hanging around' as one of the top threats to their sense of safety. An article in Leisure Studies constructively gets underneath and reframes the concept of youth 'hanging around.'
The carrot and carrot approach
A recent article in The Guardian highlights one community's efforts to align healthy behaviours with healthy incentives.
Making (and paying for) good news
Language is powerful.
What’s happening on your block?
There’s a saying that all politics is local, and in a globalised era, so too is all news. What happens in other places reverberates—so much so—that we are often more aware of international events than local events
Living and breathing connectedness
Our work on young people is about connectedness. It’s about the relationships young people have to themselves, their families, supportive adults, and the worlds beyond where they live. Most programmes and interventions aim to do something else: to reduce teenage pregnancy, to stop anti-social behavior, to curtail drug use.