How can youth empowerment initiatives promote social justice and equality?

What We Do. The YEC program will train and prepare youth and young adults to be career ready or college ready for the technology industry upon graduating the ... WHAT IS THE YES WAIVER? The Youth Empowerment Services (YES) Waiver is a 1915(c) Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Waiver that allows for more ... BYEP provides youth with an adventure-based group mentoring program designed to help teens build a supportive community and learn about their own ability to ... Designed for 8th, 9th and 10th grade Forsyth County students, Habitat Forsyth's Youth Empowerment Program (YEP!) provides an opportunity for area teens to ... What is Youth Empowerment? The Poe Center's Youth Empowerment Teams strives to increase protective factors and decrease risk factors around a variety of health ... YESS-ILP is a comprehensive and integrated program that unites community partners and academic leaders to empower current and former foster youth. The Youth Empowerment Stewards (YES) Initiative seeks to solidify a sustainable model for direct employment and talent development of people with disabilities. The California Youth Empowerment Act (AB-46) was established to address the growing need to engage youth directly with policymakers. This act creates the ... The purpose of the YEP is to address unhealthy behaviors in minority at-risk youth and provide them opportunities to learn skills and gain experiences that ... YES is the youth arm of Voces de la Frontera, and has been recognized nationally for it's powerful, multiracial youth organizing since it was founded in 2003.