Youth Organizers (YO) Who can join? Youth members who have completed one year of the Youth Leadership Project Member Profiles You can meet the current youth organizers here Description and History Youth members can gain greater levels of leadership in the organization by becoming a youth organizer. YOs take on more responsibility and play a larger role in the decision-making process throughout SEACA's campaigns. As youth organizers, students deepen their leadership skills through workshops and YO retreats to discuss topics such as facilitating, cycles of oppression, power analysis, and campaign development. SEACA staff continue to emphasize relationship and community building among the YOs. In early 2010, students went door-to-door in the Chinatown, Lincoln Heights, and Solano Canyon neighborhoods to distribute a multi-lingual health survey conducted in collaboration with a Ph.D. student from Claremont Graduate University. The research abstract was recently accepted into the Active Living Research Conference so in 2011, YOs will head to San Diego to help present a poster on health disparities in the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. The paper will be published by the Kellogg Foundation and the Asian Pacific Islander American Health Forum. YOs are currently organizing around bringing community input to the Cornfields Arroyo Seco Specific Plan (CASP). CASP is a community redevelopment project that will affect the communities in Lincoln Heights and surrounding neighborhoods, but there is currently very little community voice in the planning process. Most recently, youth organizers submitted to the Department of City Planning and the Community Redevelopment Agency a list of comments and concerns regarding the potential environmental, socioeconomic, and political impacts of the project. Video |
Youth Organizers (YO) |