During Youth Together’s founding years a key solution that young people identified as critical to reducing school violence and creating positive school climate was culturally relevant, youth-centered, holistic spaces on campus.
The Political Education Department serves as a bridge between Youth Together and the outside world. We coordinate a fee-for-service curriculum and facilitation that focuses on Leadership, Educational Justice, Ethnic Studies and Violence Prevention.
What: Working to transform education funding system to be more transparent and equitable
How:
Working with a coalition of organizations locally and other state wide and national coalitions and networks to push our work across the state.
Doing lots of education and mobilization to students, parents, organizations and community members through door to door, conferences, workshops, op eds, [...]
Read more about our citywide, statewide and nationwide coalitions and alliances.
Youth Together has had the pleasure of receiving coverage in a variety of local & national media outlets.
In 1996 Youth Together was formed by youth, community members, parents and school officials in Oakland, Berkeley, and Richmond, California concerned about inter-racial violence and inadequate school conditions.
