Youth Advocacy and Leadership Coalition

02/07/2025

YALC will be joining the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Cleveland Church on this special visit to John Carroll University to discuss Redlining in the Community! If you would like to join us please don’t hesitate to reach out!

02/03/2025

Last Thursday YALC had part 2 of our Workforce Development Summit in partnership with Bedford Heights High School.

The Youth Workforce Development Summit is designed to serve as a forum to bring together workforce talent from Cuyahoga County and community participants to deepen partnerships with various companies looking for work-ready talent. The full day Workforce Summit aims to introduce students to a variety of industry partners and showcase the evolution of the “world of work” and the skills needed to thrive, grow, and lead. We were lucky to have speakers from the Automotive, Healthcare, Construction, and Manufacturing Industry! We wanted the you to understand the importance of maintaining a career and how to elevate and or pivot if need be.

In partnership with 4H YALC was also able to hand out 10 scholarships to scholars who were interested in the Mike Rowe Scholarship, not only is this a great opportunity but they will also fulfill the need to complete one of the 3 deals they need to graduate.

At the end we had an Art Therapist from come and do art therapy with the students to help handle stress especially in the in their lives, school or even the workplace.

We want to give a HUGE shoutout to everyone who helped make these summits possible and assisted us!

01/28/2025

Last Thursday YALC had our Workforce Development Summit in partnership with Max Hayes High School.

The Youth Workforce Development Summit is designed to serve as a forum to bring together workforce talent from Cuyahoga County and community participants to deepen partnerships with various companies looking for work-ready talent. The full day Workforce Summit aims to introduce students to a variety of industry partners and showcase the evolution of the “world of work” and the skills needed to thrive, grow, and lead. We were lucky to have speakers from the Automotive, Healthcare, Construction, and Manufacturing Industry! We wanted the you to understand the importance of maintaining a career and how to elevate and or pivot if need be.

In partnership with 4H YALC was also able to hand out 10 scholarships to scholars who were interested in the Mike Rowe Scholarship, not only is this a great opportunity but they will also fulfill the need to complete one of the 3 deals they need to graduate.

At the end we had a sound therapist come and demonstrate some of her techniques she uses to help those who need decompression and how to handle stress especially in the workforce.

01/18/2025

01/13/2025

Today we started Day 1 of Power Mapping with High Tech Academy.

Power mapping is a simple and effective way
to (1) understand the power relationships that
currently exist in a community, (2) identify the
most important organizations and leaders to
connect with, and (3) craft an effective strategy
to grow community power.

The students were arranged into 8 groups and picked topics surrounding the community. Some examples they wanted to address are Homelessness, Gun Violence, Food Deserts, and Water Pollution. We will be with the students the rest of the week to help them through the process, we’re so excited to see what they all come up with!

11/25/2024

Hey YALC Family!

Saturday November 30th at 7:30 pm we will be seeing BLACK NATIVITY! This event will be at the Hanna Theatre located at 2067 E 14th St, Cleveland, OH 44115

If you would like to join us for this event please email me at [email protected] there are a LIMITED amount of tickets!

10/21/2024

YALC had the pleasure of taking some of our youth to MyCom’s Advocacy Training 2.0! Our youth learned what a lobbyist is and what they do, as well as what power mapping is!

Each group advocated for change within their school, our youth decided to advocate against “yonder pouches.” Each group did an amazing job and made some great points! We had an amazing time. Thank you for having us and Thank you for all of the wonderful information! This was a great event!

10/21/2024

This past weekend YALC enjoyed taking some of our youth to Maple side Farm for the Pumpkin Festival! We enjoyed the corn maze, the pumpkin patch, apple cider and a hay ride, and the Big Slide! Thank you to everyone who came out and enjoyed the day with YALC!

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10/11/2024

Hey YALC Family!

Here’s some upcoming events in your community!
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10/11/2024

The City of Cleveland & Cleveland Browns presents the Youth Summit taking place on October 29th from 8:30-2pm at the Cleveland Brown’s Huntington Bank Field located 100 Alfred Lerner Way Cleveland, Oh 44114.

This event is free and seeking scholars who are passionate about making a difference to explore the power of youth narratives and healthy relationships. If you are interested in attending let us know and we will register you with the rest of the YALC team.

10/11/2024

YALC will attend the State of the Youth Forum hosted by The Spot on October 25th from 5-8pm. This event will take place at Devine Events located at 1250 E. 150th st. Cleveland, Oh 44108.This forum will have a peer to peer panel discussion, resources, networking opportunities and refreshments.

Please let me know if you are interested in attending so YALC can register you with the group!