Youth Action Center
The BRIDGES Youth Action Center’s(YAC) goal is to amplify youth power and leadership to go bigger and wider beyond BRIDGES. We do this by creating spaces where youth power can thrive, and by supporting other organizations to meaningfully build youth power within their own systems.
What We Do
The Youth Action Center is a youth-powered, intergenerational space where young people lead, and systems are challenged. Built through our InterCORE model, youth hold real decision-making power alongside adults. We expand access to political education, public speaking, organizing, and advocacy while hosting youth-led power-building events that mobilize the community and demand change. Beyond our walls, we equip others to build spaces that center youth leadership, shared power, and collective action.
Create space for youth power to thrive and flourish in our space!
Help others build youth power in their spaces!
How Do We Amplify Youth Power and Leadership Beyond Our Walls?
By working with the Annie E Casey Foundation to create a national resource to build youth partnerships. The Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF®) is devoted to developing a brighter future for millions of children and young people with respect to their educational, economic, social, and health outcomes.
Their work focuses on strengthening families, building stronger communities, and ensuring access to opportunity, because children, youth, and young adults need all three to succeed. With our partnership, we help advance research and solutions to overcome the barriers to success, help communities demonstrate what works, and influence decision makers to invest in strategies based on solid evidence.
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What’s Happening at the YAC
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