As the Counseling Co-ordinator for Off The Record, a youth counseling service in London between 2004 and 2006, I gained a rich experience working with clients between the ages of 14 and 21.
As such, I understand not only that the issues that concern younger people can seem obscure to those to whom such years seem a distant memory, but also that working with younger people frequently requires a different form of engagement than that from which older adults effect change.