•  Developing marginalized community youth into empowered leaders and organizers that stand on multiracial justice principles, i.e., developing youths' leadership, resiliency, self-esteem, problem-solving and coping skills, and enabling them to work through conflicts peacefully and attain higher education and other ambitious goals.

•  School and community change campaigns have benefited &/or will benefit around 10,000 youth through: (1) providing concrete resources prioritized by youth to help break the cycle of violence and oppression; (2) changing school policies and practices to respond to youth concerns; and (3) engaging youth in the civic and democratic process.

•  Inter-racial group violence has decreased at school sites where this was once a problem.

•  Changed school policies to more effectively reflect the realities, needs, and solutions from student perspectives.

•  Shifting power dynamics in our school communities so that youth perspectives, needs, and demands are heard and addressed by policymakers.

•  School and district now perceive community organizations as needed asset.

•  School community adults are changing attitudes and behavior toward youth, recognizing their ability to lead school community change efforts; and more adults understand youth needs for support and prevention programs as opposed to punitive and disciplinary measures.

•  Effectively pushed institutions to prioritize youth prevention needs and see youths as community asset.

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MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

•  Development of the Castlemont Student Unity Center and Alameda County Project Youth Empowerment Services (YES!); Berkeley High Student Learning Center; and Skyline Youth Center.

•  Organized youth to spearhead the One Land, One People school/community collaboratives at Castlemont and Skyline high schools and community collaborative in Richmond to ensure that initiatives developed by youth continue to be driven by youth. YT is the lead agency operating these collaboratives.

•  Effectively organized youth, parents, and community members to hold district, city, and county policymakers accountable to meeting the needs of urban youth of color.

•  Organized against discriminatory school policies and practices, such as the Skyline disciplinary policy and Berkeley truancy plan, effectively interjecting youth voice and solutions as alternatives to punitive and inequitable measures and creating institutional structure to maintain youth leadership.

•  Organizing for responsive curriculum to multiracial youth population such as the West Contra Costa Unified Multicultural Studies Campaign demanding multicultural studies as a high school graduation requirement.

•  Created vehicles for student voice and participation in critical school and community decision-making.

•  Created vehicles of dialogue and community-building between students and school administration and faculty.

•  Developed a YT Curriculum and innovative models for multiracial leadership development, community organizing, and community building within urban, working class school communities.