YOUTH AS RESOURCES
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JULIE REEDER
JULIE REEDER
Director, Youth As Resources, www.youthasresources.org
Youth As Resources (YAR) is a youth-led grant making, community organizing and leadership development organization. We are run by a Board of Directors comprised of all youth and young adults between the ages of 14-24. In addition to managing two rigorous grant cycle per year, YAR employs 8 youth organizers who provide staff leadership to the Board's issue agenda -- mental heath and disability awareness, school police accountability, supporting unstably housed youth and school climate. YAR would welcome the opportunity to work with teachers and others to identify opportunities to engage students around mental health/disability awareness and police free schools, We are also recruiting youth to serve on our Board of Directors.
As mandated by our by-laws, YAR is governed by a majority youth Board of Directors currently comprised of 20 youth and young adults.
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OUR IMPACT
Grant-making: Completed 51 funding cycles distributing almost a million dollars to 505 youth-led community organizing projects. Workforce development: Provided employment to 67 youth and young adults year-round and in the summer through our Task Force strategy. Task Force is the group of highly skilled and motivated YAR youth Board members who are employed to organize and train their peers to bring about community and institutional change.
Leadership Development and Organizing: Facilitate school climate clubs Baltimore City High Schools and Middle Schools. We believe that schools can only be strengthened with consistent youth voice and organizing.
Advocacy: Organized our peers to get the school district to institutionalize the school police report card, a student rating tool on school police/student interactions and relationships. Organized to have additional youth demands included in the school police polices and general orders around force and youth-led training. Added our strengthen to other grassroots organizations in successfully opposing the arming of school police officers.
Disability Rights: Facilitated over 30 workshops for our peers, youth development practitioners and others around disability awareness, trauma and inclusion.
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