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tag name Youth empowerment program type: Institute process; Practices

web link bahai-library.com/tags/Youth_empowerment_program
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mis-spellings Junior youth
related tags - Institute process; Core activities; Moral choices and dilemmas; Ruhi Institute; Youth
referring tags Empowerment; Social action, examples of
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Program for the spiritual empowerment of 12-to-15-year-olds.

See also:
– Bahá'í World, Volume 35 (2006-2021). Fostering a Worldwide Movement of Youth (2025)
– Overview of Ruhi Books and Junior Youth books

selected quotations
(authoritative sources)
These quotations reflect common presentations of Bahá’í views; the materials below may show a wider range of interpretations and contexts:

"The rapid spread of the programme for the spiritual empowerment of junior youth is yet another expression of cultural advance in the Bahá’í community. While global trends project an image of this age group as problematic, lost in the throes of tumultuous physical and emotional change, unresponsive and self-consumed, the Bahá’í community—in the language it employs and the approaches it adopts—is moving decidedly in the opposite direction, seeing in junior youth instead altruism, an acute sense of justice, eagerness to learn about the universe and a desire to contribute to the construction of a better world. Account after account, in which junior youth in countries all over the planet give voice to their thoughts as participants in the programme, testifies to the validity of this vision. There is every indication that the programme engages their expanding consciousness in an exploration of reality that helps them to analyse the constructive and destructive forces operating in society and to recognize the influence these forces exert on their thoughts and actions, sharpening their spiritual perception, enhancing their powers of expression and reinforcing moral structures that will serve them throughout their lives. At an age when burgeoning intellectual, spiritual and physical powers become accessible to them, they are being given the tools needed to combat the forces that would rob them of their true identity as noble beings and to work for the common good..."

– Universal House of Justice, Ridván message 2010

references bahaipedia.org/Junior_youth_group; bahaiquotes.com/subject/junior-youth; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Youth empowerment; www.ruhi.org/en/spiritual-education-for-all-ages/#junior-youth; www.devlp.org/en

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2025-04-21. Fostering a Worldwide Movement of Youth. Bahá'í World. Youth empowerment through spiritual education, service, and community-building programs, cultivating agents of social transformation amid mounting global challenges. Articles.
2025-04-21. Women and Social Progress: Building Communities Based on Dynamic Partnership. Bahá'í World. Highlights the Bahá’í principle of gender equality, showing its spiritual basis and global application through education, leadership, and community action. Articles.
2023-2026. BWNS Podcasts: Conversations and Insights from the Field. Bahá'í World News Service. Links to 46 interviews highlighting how Bahá’í individuals and communities worldwide apply spiritual principles to education, governance, equality, and social transformation, fostering unity and the betterment of society. Video and audio available. Audio.
2017-01. Training Institutes: Attaining a Higher Level of Functioning. International Teaching Centre. Assistance to Bahá'ís managing institutes, to help better implement the main sequence of courses, the youth spiritual empowerment and education programs, and matters related to the institutional capacity of training institutes. UHJ-letters.
2016. Advancing in Bahá'í-inspired Education. Sona Farid-Arbab. A number of diverse educators labor in diverse cultural and ecological settings to identify educational needs, develop elements of a coherent pedagogy, and create a series of teaching-learning experience, in light of Bahá'u'lláh's vision for humanity. Articles.
2013. Materials Studied at the 114 Global Youth Conferences in 2013. Bahá'í World Centre. Compilation presenting materials studied during the global Bahá’í youth conferences in 2013, organized under the auspices of the Universal House of Justice, exploring youth identity, community-building, service, and civilization advancement. Study.
2011-12-12. Ruhi Institutes and the Five-Year Plan. Universal House of Justice. Letter to all National Spiritual Assemblies about the role of the Ruhi Institute, coordination of clusters, education of children, and training institutes in the 2011-2016 5-Year Plan. UHJ-letters.
2010. Younger Generation Has Always Had the Power to Reshape Our World, The. Ted Slavin. Young people have a great potential to shape society. Youth trained to lead junior youth groups are called "animators"; they can help guide activist potential to achieving positive effect. Newspapers.
1987-2025. Ruhi Books. Ruhi Institute. Published volumes of the Ruhi Institute books. (Links to documents, offsite.) Books.

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2018-09-21 — The Bahá'í World Centre announced the release of three short films that highlighted aspects of the community building endeavours of Bahá'ís and like-minded friends around the world. Totaling about 32 minutes, the new films covered three themes: nurturing younger generations, exploring the empowerment of junior youth, and communities learning to advance together. The films complement the recently produced documentary film A Widening Embrace released in April. [BWNS1286]
The films can be downloaded using the link below:
Nurturing younger generations
Exploring the empowerment of junior youth
Communities learning to advance together
2022-01-01 — The Universal House of Justice announced that the courses of the Ruhi Institute would continue to be a prominent feature of the educational endeavours of all training institutes during this new series of global Plans. The Ruhi Institute will, during the Nine Year Plan, complete the preparation of all the materials it has outlined for use in children's classes, junior youth groups, and study circles, and the revision of published editions as necessary in light of experience. However, beyond what it has already delineated, it is not expected to develop new materials to be used worldwide. [Message 1 January 2022]

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tag name	Youth empowerment program	type:	Institute process; Practices
web link	bahai-library.com/tags/Youth_empowerment_program
variations or mis-spellings	Junior youth
related tags	- Institute process; Core activities; Moral choices and dilemmas; Ruhi Institute; Youth
referring tags	Empowerment; Social action, examples of
notes	Program for the spiritual empowerment of 12-to-15-year-olds. See also: – Bahá'í World, Volume 35 (2006-2021). Fostering a Worldwide Movement of Youth (2025) – Overview of Ruhi Books and Junior Youth books
selected quotations (authoritative sources)	These quotations reflect common presentations of Bahá’í views; the materials below may show a wider range of interpretations and contexts: "The rapid spread of the programme for the spiritual empowerment of junior youth is yet another expression of cultural advance in the Bahá’í community. While global trends project an image of this age group as problematic, lost in the throes of tumultuous physical and emotional change, unresponsive and self-consumed, the Bahá’í community—in the language it employs and the approaches it adopts—is moving decidedly in the opposite direction, seeing in junior youth instead altruism, an acute sense of justice, eagerness to learn about the universe and a desire to contribute to the construction of a better world. Account after account, in which junior youth in countries all over the planet give voice to their thoughts as participants in the programme, testifies to the validity of this vision. There is every indication that the programme engages their expanding consciousness in an exploration of reality that helps them to analyse the constructive and destructive forces operating in society and to recognize the influence these forces exert on their thoughts and actions, sharpening their spiritual perception, enhancing their powers of expression and reinforcing moral structures that will serve them throughout their lives. At an age when burgeoning intellectual, spiritual and physical powers become accessible to them, they are being given the tools needed to combat the forces that would rob them of their true identity as noble beings and to work for the common good..." – Universal House of Justice, Ridván message 2010
references	bahaipedia.org/Junior_youth_group; bahaiquotes.com/subject/junior-youth; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Youth empowerment; www.ruhi.org/en/spiritual-education-for-all-ages/#junior-youth; www.devlp.org/en