Youth Empowerment Summit

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The Youth Empowerment Summit is the culminating event of the Advocacy Training. The four-day summit in Washington, D.C., offers 100 young people from World Vision’s U.S. Programs sites around the nation the opportunity to experience civic engagement firsthand. At the summit, graduates of the Advocacy Training present their proposals for addressing community needs to their respective federal lawmakers.

These 100 young leaders receive personalized coaching and mentoring from World Vision policy advisers and are accompanied by these same advisers on their visit to Capitol Hill. Through workshops presented at the summit, participants learn the importance of consensus-building, conflict transformation, cultural awareness, and other key skills that increase their capacity to lead.

In 2007—the project’s pilot year—81 young leaders participated in the Youth Empowerment Summit, representing nine regions including Southwestern Georgia, Appalachia (West Virginia), Chicago, District of Columbia, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Tacoma, and Twin Cities.

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