Youth Action Members (YAMs)
CCC’s 2019 Advocacy Day: Fighting For New York Children
Staff from Citizens’ Committee for Children and more than two dozen adult and youth volunteers were in Albany February 27 to introduce our 2020 state budget priorities to key legislators and their staff. We split in groups and fanned out throughout the …
CCC Testimony: Oversight: Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP)
CCC testified before the New York City Council Committee on Youth Services on February 25, 2016 at an oversight hearing to examine the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP). Every summer, thousands more youth are able to participate in the program bec …
YouthAction NYC Advocates for Greater Access to Mental Health Services for Teens
Since October, a new cohort of participants in CCC’s YouthAction Community Leadership Course (YCLC) have been studying the issue of teen mental health and exploring how teens learn about and access mental health services in their schools and communitie …
YouthAction Updates: Fall 2013
With the start of the Fall 2013 YouthAction Community Leadership Course (YCLC) on September 21st, all three YouthAction programs are back in full swing. Through their participation in the YCLC, 26 high school students from across New York City will lea …
