From our friends at Carolina Youth Action Project
“The Youth Action Alliance (YAA) is a political education intensive focusing on transformative justice, prison abolition, and popular education for girls, trans youth, and gender nonconforming youth ages 14-21. YAA is made up of three distinct cohorts: Activate, Build, and Transform.
Our 2021 cohorts will meet from mid-February until mid-May of 2021. To prioritize wellness and safety in the time of COVID-19, all of this coming year’s YAA sessions will be entirely virtual and happen via Zoom.
Youth leaders also attend all-cohort Collective Meetings, check-ins with our Wellness Organizer, and youth leader socials throughout their time in the cohort!
All youth leaders receive stipends ($$) for their participation.
Read about each cohort below!”
THE ‘ACTIVATE’ COHORT – Apply for our Activate Cohort by January 16th!
The Activate Cohort’s core focus is on transformative justice. Youth leaders in the Activate Cohort discuss & learn about identity, power and oppression, conflict, systems of punishment, restorative and transformative responses to harm, interdependence, disposability, and accountability. Any young people who are between the ages of 14 and 18, attending school in Charleston, Dorchester, and Berkeley counties, and have never participated in YAA before can apply to be part of our Activate Cohort.
THE’ BUILD’ COHORT – Apply for our Build Cohort by January 16th!
The Build Cohort’s core focus is on prison abolition. Youth leaders in the Activate Cohort discuss & learn about care and safety, the history of policing, the prison industrial complex, abolitionist practices and understandings, and life-affirming institutions. Any young people who are between the ages of 15 and 19 living in Charleston, Dorchester, and Berkeley counties and who have participated in YAA once before can apply to be part of the Build Cohort.
THE ‘TRANSFORM’ COHORT – Apply for our Transform Cohort by January 16th!
The Transform Cohort’s core focus is popular education facilitation. Youth leaders in the Transform Cohort discuss & learn about transformative justice, prison abolition, the theory, history, and practice of popular education, and how to plan and facilitate community workshops. The Transform Cohort is open to young people between the ages of 19-21 who have never been a part of YAA. Youth leaders who are younger than 19 but have participated in two YAA cohorts before may also apply for the Transform Cohort.
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