Hear by Right
A youth participation framework and standards approach for embedding young people's voice across organisations.
National Youth Agency
This page is a plain-English practice summary. It attributes the source field and avoids presenting the framework as Positively Devious intellectual property.
What this framework helps with
- moving youth voice from projects into organisational practice
- reviewing culture, strategy and systems
- creating shared standards for participation
Three questions it helps teams ask
- Where is youth voice built into governance, services and evaluation?
- What evidence shows influence rather than consultation only?
- Who owns the improvement plan?
How to use it in youth and community work
Use Hear by Right as a lens for better decisions, not as a script. Start with the local context, invite the people affected by the work into the interpretation, and turn the framework into practical questions, design choices and learning habits.
For Positively Devious, this framework matters because it helps explain one part of the wider conditions around positive deviance: the relationships, opportunities, skills, systems and power arrangements that make uncommon positive outcomes more likely to be noticed and learned from.
What to watch out for
- standards need lived practice, not paperwork alone
- young people should help judge whether participation feels real
- organisational change takes time