Youth Together is conducting a listening campaign until May 11th! Our Listening Campaign is a Youth Together, student-led effort to bring to light issues students face within their schools and community today. Our goal is to create more educational equity around the most deeply and widely felt issues within Oakland […]
“Holla Back; WE GOT Y’ALLS BACKS!” Unity Day is an annual Youth Together event put on by our very own youth leaders and community partners. Unity Day was created in 2001 as a response to racial tension, build solidarity within the schools, and to promote peace within […]
Youth Together High School Interns Building Community with Incoming 9th Graders It can be very scary and intimidating for incoming 9th graders to adjust from a small school site to a massive campus with three times as many students and faculty. Sometimes not feeling apart of a school community in the […]
Every year thousands of excited and anxious students begin their journey as a 9th grader entering high school. At the same time parents often get lost with the overload of information, the switch from small to bigger campuses, and learning to deal with teenage life. Since 2013, Youth Together’s […]
Jocelyne Rivera OLOP Intern 2012-2015 “I am a full-time student majoring in Psychology. The youth center impacted me in such a positive way. I was able to learn amazing leadership skills, and make strong bonds with people who cared for me. I felt like I had a second family […]
On January 20th, young people from Youth Together, BAY PEACE, AYPAL, All City Council, and other organizations came together under the banner of #TownYouthRising to protest not only Donald Trump, but the actions he’s taking to privatize education through nominating Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education. Students began the grass […]
Realizing the importance of parent engagement, Youth Together has established a parent organizing cohort to ensure that our parents have an active voice in support of our students. Our parent organizing cohort meets weekly with our Parent Organizer, Guadalupe Gomez to discuss the success of our students within Oakland Unified School District. […]