The Planning Community Impact unit offers youth the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of Human-Centered design and guides them through developing a research plan to learn more about the needs and wants of community for which they are designing. They conduct their research in their community, and use the feedback to iterate their idea. The updated idea is then submitted to a peer network for review.


At the end of this unit, youth in the YLP work with support networks to select which of the Community Leader, Digital Champion, or Social Innovator pathways will best support their social impact goals.