The Youth Design Lab

Integrating Youth Voice into System-Level Decision-Making

The Youth Design Lab is a targeted diagnostic engagement that helps education systems understand how their strategies, structures, and decisions are experienced by young people.

This is not a youth development program.
It is a structured listening and synthesis process designed to inform leadership decisions.

Through carefully designed experiences, young people reflect on what is working, where friction exists, and what is missing. Their perspectives are analyzed alongside other system inputs and integrated into leadership sensemaking.

The result is not a youth product.
It is
clearer system insight.

When the Youth Design Lab Is Most Useful

  • During redesign or transition

  • When youth engagement is a stated value but not embedded in decisions

  • When leaders want insight beyond surveys or advisory councils

February 2026 Pilot Opportunity

Clarity Works is exploring a limited number of February pilot engagements using the Youth Design Lab as a diagnostic entry point.

These pilots are for systems ready to integrate youth perspective into real decisions—not symbolic engagement.

👉 Contact us to explore pilot fit