Youth and Young Adults Committee Recap from March 12, 2015 Meeting: YYA Job Opportunities
Back in the Fall at the Youth Advocacy Summit, youth advocates organized around creating access full time paid employment instead of just unpaid or short term internships (while they are great experience, they don’t provide as much stability). This week we discussed some opportunities including working with Real Change, education and training through Career Pathways, and the Living Wage Green Internships campaign! (read more below!) We also elected new co-chairs: Michael (HEYO) and Emily (PSKS) we’re excited to have you in the fun leadership role! And Hatlo, we’re fortunate that you were a co-chair with great leadership and glad to still see you at meetings and events. (Drum roll…)We are excited about bills that made it past a very important cutoff in Olympia!!! The Homeless Youth Act (Senate & House), Extended Foster Care (Senate & House), Homeless Student Stability Act (House), and Youth Equality and Reintegration (YEAR) Act (Senate) made it out of their perspective chambers and will now be heard in the other chamber. Thanks for making calls, and we encourage you to call your legislators to thank them for their work. See more on our legislative tracker blog post. Here are the opportunities we talked about: Job Opportunity: Sell papers on a flexible schedule with Real Change, presenter: Jerred Clouse, Vendor Program Supervisor, jerredc@realchangenews.org Real Change is a three part program. (1) newspaper that has won many national awards and collaborates with local organizations such as Mockingbird for articles. (2) Vendor program and circulation of paper. (3) Awesome advocacy work organizing at a local and state level (you’ve probably heard of their OutsideIn campaign). Related to youth and young adults, their Vendor Program is open to people 18+ years old, and is very flexible, accessible, and independent. They’re doing a lot of outreach to involve and engage with YYA who are interested …