Citywide Youth Coalition, Inc.

08/19/2026

🎉💚 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, T’MO! 💚🎉

Today we’re celebrating our Executive Director, Ta’LannaMonique “T’Mo” Lawson-Dickerson! 🥳

Thank you for the love, leadership, laughter, and commitment you pour into Citywide, our young people, and our community. Your leadership reminds us that this work is about more than programs it’s about building family, cultivating power, and believing deeply in young people.

Help us show T’Mo some birthday love today! 🎂✨💚

Happy Birthday, T’Mo! Here’s to another year of joy, purpose, and building power together. ✊🏾

08/07/2026

Join us as we close out our 6-week Abolition Boot Camp with a community BBQ! Over the past six weeks, we’ve learned together, challenged each other, built relationships, and deepened our commitment to collective liberation. Now it’s time to celebrate everything we’ve built.

Whether you participated in Boot Camp, supported the program, or want to connect with young organizers committed to building a more just world, we’d love to have you with us.

📅 Tuesday, August 11, 2026
🕑 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
📍 College Woods, East Rock Park, New Haven

Come enjoy great food, community, games, and conversation as we celebrate this year’s Abolition Boot Camp graduates and the work that lies ahead.

The workshop may be ending, but the organizing is just beginning. ❤️🖤

07/10/2026

For 50 years, Citywide Youth Coalition has been a home for generations of young people, families, organizers, and community members committed to building a more just New Haven.

Join us for our 50th Anniversary Family Reunion Dinner as we celebrate the people, stories, and movements that brought us here—and recommit ourselves to the work ahead.

🗓️ Saturday, September 12
🕕 6:00–10:00 PM
📍 1253 Whitney Ave, Hamden, CT

Whether you were here in the beginning or just joined the family, there’s a seat waiting for you.

🎟️ Register today—link in bio!

06/30/2026

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Political education is the foundation of every movement. Before we organize, we study. Before we lead, we listen. Join us as we read and discuss the Black Panther Party’s 10-Point Program, connect with community, and deepen our commitment to collective liberation. Whether this is your first organizing space or your hundredth, there’s a place for you in the circle. Come eat, learn, build, and imagine a freer future together. ✊🏽📚❤️🖤

05/11/2026

05/08/2026

What if the future our children deserve requires adults to unlearn first?

CWYC and the Brave Nature Collaborative are launching a monthly learning circle for parents, caregivers, educators, organizers, and allied adults ready to heal, grow, and show up differently with young people.

Together, we will practice unlearning harmful habits, ideologies, and internalized narratives the system has taught us while building deeper skills in listening, accountability, community care, and intergenerational partnership.

This space is about healing from adultism, racism, ableism, patriarchy, and other harmful “isms” so we can better support the leadership and brilliance of young people as we build a more liberated future together. ✨

Join one of our virtual “call-ins” to learn more, hear the vision, and see if this circle is for you:
📅 May 13 @ 8:30 PM
📅 May 14 @ 4:30 PM

Link to register on our link tree!!

CWYC BraveNature YouthLeadership

05/01/2026

Abolition Boot Camp is BACK 🔥

This 6-week paid summer program is your chance to build real skills in community organizing, direct action, and movement building alongside other young leaders.

📍 928 Chapel Street, New Haven
🗓 Every Monday & Tuesday
⏰ 2PM – 5PM | July 6 – August 11
🍽 Meals provided

Participants will receive a $250 stipend for completing the program.

Through our We Vote Next and Care Not Cops campaigns, you’ll gain the tools to organize, mobilize, and fight for the future our communities deserve.

Apply now — link in bio. ✊🏽✨

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05/01/2026

HAPPY MAY DAY EVERYONE!
Chant sheet for today’s action join us in raising your voice. See you all today on the New Haven Green starting at 10:30!

04/30/2026

Tomorrow, we move as one.

All school routes and walkout times are officially live. Every hallway, every classroom, every block, we’re showing up together for education and economic justice.

This is bigger than one school. This is about all of us students, teachers, and staff standing united against underfunding, against a broken ECS formula, and for schools that invest in care, not cops.

Find your school. Know your route. Be on time. Stay together. Stay disciplined.

They tried intimidation. They got organization.

See you in the streets. ✊🏽🔥

04/30/2026

ONE DAY AWAY.

They tried intimidation. They tried fear. All they did was light a fire. Students are more ready, more united, and more energized than ever.

This is bigger than one school. This is about all of us — students, teachers, and workers standing together for the resources and respect we deserve.

In the coming hours, we’ll be releasing individual school route information. Stay locked in. Stay ready.

We move tomorrow. ✊