Growing Up Boulder’s impact statement:
Boulder’s children, youth, parents, community members, educators, university design students, university design faculty, and city officials will value and seek out young people’s opinions on local decisions which affect their lives, on an ongoing basis. Growing Up Boulder’s model will also inspire other communities around the world to value and seek out young people’s opinions on decisions that affect them.
Transportation
Planning, Housing, & Sustainability
Arts
Youth Voice
Parks & Nature
Serving as a precedent, Growing Up Boulder (GUB) combines five categories for projects in the Boulder, Colorado area as part of the Child Friendly Cities Initiative. Relating to our project brief, it provides a way to look at child-friendly urban design with room to expand on COVID-19 and site-specific influences. Below are the goals as listed on the GUB website:
Growing Up Boulder’s goals are to:
1. Ensure meaningful opportunities for young people’s participation in Boulder decision-making.
2. Make Boulder a more inclusive place for children and youth of all income levels, ethnicities and abilities.
3. Give GUB partners a voice in setting the direction of GUB projects.
4. Disseminate lessons learned from GUB to the community (Boulder-at-large, youth, academics, GUB partners, other child-friendly city communities).
