Second Haven is seeking Youth Advisors (age 13 to 25) to join our Youth Advisor Team and help shape the future of our community. Youth Advisors offer insight, feedback, and ideas that help ensure Second Haven’s games, quests, events, and spaces remain engaging, welcoming, and meaningful to young people.
This role is ideal for a young person who wants to share their perspective, help improve the community, and contribute to something that supports connection, belonging, and well-being for others. Youth Advisors do not need to have all the answers. What matters most is a willingness to reflect, speak honestly, listen to others, and help us think more clearly about what young people actually need and experience.
Role Summary
Youth Advisors help bring the voice of young people into the design of Second Haven’s programs, events, quests, community features, and overall direction. They may be invited to share feedback on new ideas, help identify what feels welcoming or unwelcoming, offer suggestions for improvement, and speak from their own experience about what helps a community feel engaging, safe, and worth returning to.
This role is part advisor, part collaborator, and part perspective-holder. Youth Advisors help adults and project leaders avoid building for young people without meaningfully listening to them. They help ensure that community decisions are informed by real lived experience rather than guesswork.
Youth Advisors will join an existing team and contribute alongside others. This is not a role where one young person is expected to carry the burden alone or represent everyone’s experience. Rather, it is a shared space for reflection, input, and thoughtful contribution.
What Youth Advisors May Do
Youth Advisors may:
- Share feedback on community plans, ideas, events, quests, or activities
- Help identify what feels engaging, supportive, confusing, awkward, or uninviting from a young person’s point of view
- Offer ideas for how Second Haven can better foster belonging, participation, and trust
- Participate in advisory discussions with other Youth Advisors and team members
- Reflect on what young people may need from an online community centered on connection, creativity, and support
- Help staff and volunteer leaders think through how activities or spaces may be experienced by different kinds of participants
- Suggest improvements to event design, onboarding, communication, recruitment, or community culture
- Help identify gaps, missed opportunities, or assumptions that older generations may overlook
- In some cases, contribute ideas for content, events, outreach, or community-building efforts
What We’re Looking For
A strong Youth Advisor is someone who:
- Is thoughtful, honest, and willing to share their perspective
- Can reflect on their own experiences and listen respectfully to others
- Cares about belonging, inclusion, and helping create better experiences for peers
- Is comfortable offering ideas, reactions, or constructive feedback
- Does not need to be highly polished or formal, but is willing to participate in good faith
- Understands that different young people may have different needs, backgrounds, comfort levels, and ways of engaging
- Wants to contribute to a community that is creative, supportive, and shaped with care
You do not need leadership experience, public speaking skills, or professional credentials to serve in this role. We value honesty, insight, care, and perspective more than polish.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
Second Haven wants its advisory process to include a wide range of lived experiences and perspectives. We warmly welcome interest from young people of many backgrounds, including those whose voices are often underrepresented in community design and leadership spaces.
This includes youth with neurodiverse gifts, chronically ill youth, BIPOC youth, Latino/a/e/x youth, LGBTQIA+ youth, disabled youth, and others whose experiences may help us build a more inclusive and responsive community. No one is expected to speak for an entire group. We simply believe the community will be stronger when more kinds of young people help shape it.
Why This Role Matters
Second Haven exists to create gentler, more inclusive opportunities for connection, creativity, and shared experience, especially for people who may face barriers to consistent social participation. If we want to build something genuinely meaningful for young people, young people need a real voice in shaping it.
Youth Advisors help us stay grounded in reality. They help us notice what resonates, what misses the mark, and what could be made better. Their perspective can improve not only individual events or ideas, but the culture and direction of the community as a whole.
This role is not symbolic. Youth Advisors are part of helping us think better, design better, and serve better.
Support and Structure
Youth Advisors join an existing team and are supported by project leaders and other collaborators. This role is meant to be participatory and respectful, not high-pressure. Youth Advisors are not expected to provide therapy, moderate crises, or carry responsibilities beyond the scope of an advisory role.
Depending on the format, Youth Advisors may contribute through meetings, written feedback, group discussions, occasional brainstorming sessions, or responses to specific ideas and plans.
Time Commitment
Time commitment may vary depending on current projects and the advisor’s availability. Some Youth Advisors may contribute occasionally, while others may choose to participate more regularly as part of the advisory team.
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