See below message from HopeWorks about a leadership opportunity:

Our Youth Leadership Project provides an affirming, safe space for teens to engage in important conversations on a range of topics like healthy relationships, media literacy, environmental justice, and social movements.  

The HopeWorks’ Youth Leadership Project is a service-learning program dedicated to empowering teens to challenge systems of oppression and prevent relationship violence. Youth Leadership is open to teens ages 13 – 18 of all genders, backgrounds, and identities. This project provides an affirming and safe space for all students. 

Youth Leaders will: 

• engage in discussion,
• raise their social consciousness
• participate in several creative projects and activism throughout the year,
• actively work to raise awareness and change the culture that allows sexual and dating violence to thrive.

Application window for the 2022/2023 cohort closes September 9, 2022. 

More information and the necessary application can also be found at:  

https://hopeworksofhc.org/youth-leadership-project

HopeWorks’ Youth Leaders will actively engage in a variety of projects alongside their monthly meetings. These projects can include:  

creating a Zine on liberation and youth power, 
standing up for environmental justice by contributing to HopeWorks’ Community Peace Garden, “The Our Earth Project,” 
collaborating and utilizing social media communication to engage community members.