Because all municipalities are different, starting a Governments Engaging Youth (GEY) program is a process that is unique to each community. The readiness assessment matrix below will help you think through preliminary details for starting a youth-civic engagement program.

Use the tools below to:

• Assess/identify target skills/competencies for program curriculum,
• Identify how ready your agency is to implement or scale up a GEY model, and
• Identify next steps.

These planning tools allow your agency team and partners to identify what you need to ask/know to move forward. These items will continue to be updated based on feedback from GEY sites.

• Readiness Assessment
• Planning Tool for Developing a Youth-Civic Engagement Work-Based Learning Model
• GEY Skills & Competencies Matrix (please note this is a legal size document)
• Scaling Tool - Action Plan Development