Youth Together, in collaboration with parents and families, will be hosting our Cultural Cuisine Nights, starting October 2018. Cultural Cuisine Nights are an opportunity for students, parents, and families to come together and enjoy tastes of each others’ cultures, while hearing the stories, experiences, and legends that relate to the […]
After a year of Youth Together Lead Student Organizers facilitating a Youth Participatory Action Research project, Youth Together is proud to present the findings and recommendations that students created. The goal of the 2018 Listening Campaign, which was conducted between October 2017 and June 2018, was to work with […]
Grounded in our commitment to peace, unity, and justice, Youth Together is proud to present our 2018 Unity Day! Unity Day is an annual event put on by Youth Together that started as a day to address racial tension and violence on high school campuses in Oakland back in 2001. […]
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 […]
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 […]