Goals and Accomplishments:
Youth Advisory Council Goals
- To train young people on how to be leaders on the issues they burn for.
- To help foster extreme and beneficial youth-adult partnerships, as well as relationships among youth participants.
- To accomplish goals beyond one person’s imagination; we work as a team.
- To give young people a voice in the world, causing awesome changes to occur.
- To provide young people with the opportunities and resources to create social change.
- To create collaboration among Hampton Roads’ youth.
- To advocate violence prevention throughout the state on local and political levels.
2001 – 2002 Accomplishments
- Regional Poster Contest
- Afram Festival
- Fundraisers
- Youth Forums
- New Ymedia Brochure
- Virginia’s 10th Annual Drug-Free Day
- YAC Poem
2002 – 2003 Accomplishments
- Lobby Day, Mediation Training, Candlelight Vigil
- 9th Annual Citizens’ Conference to Stop Gun Violence
- Spread the Love
- Penny Drive
- Maury Talent Show
- Martin Luther King Rally
- 6th Annual Hampton Roads Youth Leadership Conference
2003 – 2004 Goals
- Norfolk Recreation Center Ymedia Club
- Strengthening the YAC
Long-Term Goals
- Closing the Gun Show Loophole
- Toy Gun Buy-Back
- Summer Angel Tree for Teens
- Educational Video
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