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Clarifying a primary and secondary audience
Considerations will need to be made if
assists your planning team in remaining
families and older (age 35+) members of
faithful to the objectives for the event and is
movements, parishes, or dioceses should
especially important for an event like World
be able to participate in the event, and in
Youth Day for a number of factors:
what roles they are allowed to play.
Because of such intergenerational factors,
There are distinct cultural and ethnic
additional attention will need to be paid to
expectations for who qualifies as “youth”
child and youth protection measures.
at an international level (in the United
States English-speaking culture, this can
Our Audiences:
be junior high and high school students;
PRIMARY
in Latino culture, “jovenes” means midteens through marriage; in Europe, the
term generally covers 16 to 35).
SECONDARY
Many young adults and middle-age adults
who have had positive experiences at a
past World Youth Day event (either
stateside or international) may have a
desire to participate in some way.
Nationally, dioceses have different age
groups that they include for international
Vision of Success
and stateside celebrations.
Now that you have identified the target
audiences for your event, you have the
Diocesan and parish leaders may want all
opportunity to cast a vision for the
young people in their communities (from
celebration. Who do you really want to be
small children through those in their late
there? What is the primary goal for an activity
thirties) to be able to participate in an
like this? How does this goal (or goals)
event like this, whether or not they are
connect to the overall international vision of
within the intended audience of World
World Youth Day and the larger vision of
Youth Day or the local organizers.
evangelizing and inspiring the young Church?
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