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Support for Youth Organizing
Goal
The Institute aims to help young people in New York City become a powerful force in improving their high schools. Our work supports youth activists as they seek a role in demanding and designing college access and preparation for other post-secondary pathways in a district that is not accustomed to making youth a serious partner.
What We Do
The Institute provides research, data analysis, training, facilitation, coordination, support for strategy development, and logistical support for youth educational organizing efforts in New York City. The work is a continuation of an initiative begun by the Community Involvement Program (CIP) in 2004. (CIP was affiliated with New York University until 2006, when it merged with the Annenberg Institute). The work originally grew out of CIP's experience with supporting parent organizing and was informed by a survey of the organizational needs of existing youth groups.
SUPPORT FOR URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE AND STUDENT UNION
The Institute coordinates and provides research to support the Urban Youth Collaborative (UYC), and the UYC Student Union. The mission of UYC, a coalition of five youth organizations, is to hold the New York City Department of Education accountable for ensuring that all New York City high schools prepare young people to go to college, find meaningful employment, and work for justice in society. UYC works for expanded youth power in systemic educational policy decisions and increased equity and quality in high school education in New York City. In 2006, UYC invited 16 youth organizations to form a network, the UYC Student Union, to improve high school quality and increase youth leadership.
The Annenberg Institute provides intensive training on education policy issues to high school youth activists through our annual two-week Youth Organizing Institute (YOI) on Educational Policy, which is attended by 25 young people involved in high school reform campaigns in New York City. YOI teaches youth about the history, structure, resources, and outcomes of the city's schools, assists youth in researching school problems and reform strategies, links youth to education policy experts, and provides youth with networking opportunities to support cross-organizational campaign development.
YOI also addresses the individual academic needs of young people by linking them to academic advisors who work with them to improve their research, writing, and analytic skills. YOI graduates receive $1000 college scholarships with funding from Time Warner Inc.
Partners & Funders
Contact Person
Hiram Rivera
Co-Coordinator, Urban Youth Collaborative
Hiram_Rivera@brown.edu
Support for Youth Organizing
Goal
The Institute aims to help young people in New York City become a powerful force in improving their high schools. Our work supports youth activists as they seek a role in demanding and designing college access and preparation for other post-secondary pathways in a district that is not accustomed to making youth a serious partner.
What We Do
The Institute provides research, data analysis, training, facilitation, coordination, support for strategy development, and logistical support for youth educational organizing efforts in New York City. The work is a continuation of an initiative begun by the Community Involvement Program (CIP) in 2004. (CIP was affiliated with New York University until 2006, when it merged with the Annenberg Institute). The work originally grew out of CIP's experience with supporting parent organizing and was informed by a survey of the organizational needs of existing youth groups.
SUPPORT FOR URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE AND STUDENT UNION
The Institute coordinates and provides research to support the Urban Youth Collaborative (UYC), and the UYC Student Union. The mission of UYC, a coalition of five youth organizations, is to hold the New York City Department of Education accountable for ensuring that all New York City high schools prepare young people to go to college, find meaningful employment, and work for justice in society. UYC works for expanded youth power in systemic educational policy decisions and increased equity and quality in high school education in New York City. In 2006, UYC invited 16 youth organizations to form a network, the UYC Student Union, to improve high school quality and increase youth leadership.
What Students are Saying
“My school is very unorganized. Students get lost in the system. There are too many staff people focused on enforcing discipline and order and not enough focused on helping us to graduate and go to college. I believe the solution can be found in organizing people, youth especially. Organizing helps build people power so that those with power over education in our communities will become accountable to us.”
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– Juan, 17, Sistas and Brothas United and the Urban Youth Collaborative
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– Juan, 17, Sistas and Brothas United and the Urban Youth Collaborative
The Annenberg Institute provides intensive training on education policy issues to high school youth activists through our annual two-week Youth Organizing Institute (YOI) on Educational Policy, which is attended by 25 young people involved in high school reform campaigns in New York City. YOI teaches youth about the history, structure, resources, and outcomes of the city's schools, assists youth in researching school problems and reform strategies, links youth to education policy experts, and provides youth with networking opportunities to support cross-organizational campaign development.
YOI also addresses the individual academic needs of young people by linking them to academic advisors who work with them to improve their research, writing, and analytic skills. YOI graduates receive $1000 college scholarships with funding from Time Warner Inc.
Partners & Funders
- Urban Youth Collaborative
- Robert Bowne Foundation
- Hazen Foundation
- Rockefeller Brothers Fund
- Surdna Foundation
- Time Warner Inc.
Contact Person
Hiram Rivera
Co-Coordinator, Urban Youth Collaborative
Hiram_Rivera@brown.edu
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