Join the PA Youth Advocacy Network's - PA Student Mental Health Advocacy Committee this school year! The Committee will be meeting weekly to take advocacy actions around the youth-led policy platform found here:
https://www.payouthadvocacy.org/_files/ugd/7180f8_576dda57fb4a4415bb47017a042cc398.pdf. Teens are welcome to join anytime during the year and go to meetings that interest them.
Possible projects include: Meeting with state legislator, planning advoacacy workshops, working on creative advocacy campaigns and social media activism, creating a mental health magazine, partnering with mental health and youth focused organziation across the Commonwealth, and other ideas you may bring to the group.
Why Join?
- Participation is flexible based on your schedule.
- Meetings are weekly with different themes
- Teen-led space with opportunities to create tools for teens, guide change in the state and locally, and connect with changemakers
- Follow your passion to enact change
We will need parent or guardian information and permission for participation in the working group. We will be using Docusign digital permission slips, or signed and scanned paper copies (available upon request).