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Causes: Children & Youth, Youth Development
Mission: The youth community project offers youth groups in carrboro/chapel hill a hub where they can unite, aggregate power, amplify their voices and create youth-driven activities to meet their needs and realize their visions.
Programs: Queer youth drop-in provided a meeting place for queer youth to congregate. Qydi held 45 90-minute meetings throughout the year.
reintegration support network (rsn)- ycp/rsn recruited and engaged 14 mentors/volunteers and engaged 8 youth (and 12 parents/guardians) who have substance use disorders and/or mental health issues and/or encounters with the justice system in program activities and support systems. Rsn continued to network with over 24 agencies, schools and practitioners and developed relationships for ongoing referrals. We have conducted outreach to recruit volunteers from over 12 community organizations and places of worship.
youth art exhibition - held an outdoor youth art exhibition in carrboro, nc organized by and featuring local youth artists.
fluid revolutions - enrolled 13 youth for the camp and conducted an hour and a half long performance for friends and family at the end of the week. As planned, some beginner students advanced to intermediate status while intermediate students became advanced students and helped beginners to learn. Youth choreographed and performed pieces for a show. Youth have continued to lead social-political workshops and incorporated these themes into their show.
youth organizing and leadership development - youth community project held its youth organizing and leadership development camp based on youth organizing institutes summer freedom school model with street scene teen center (sstc) and other youth serving organizations. The camp educated youth aged 14 to 18 around organizing skills, political analysis, restorative justice and young peoples movement history during two weeks in july 2017.
hub activities centered around advocacy for a stand-alone teen center to serve the youth of chapel hill, carrboro and orange county.