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Young people creating community solutions<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Your Ideas. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your Voice. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your Community<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apply to Start a YouthCreate Project<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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For ages [12\u201318] | \u00a0<\/strong>part-time leadership and action-based program<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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YouthCreate is the Blueprint<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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YouthCreate: Young People Creating Community Solutions is a national initiative designed to empower low-income teenagers to imagine, design, and lead community improvement projects that transform both their lives and the neighborhoods they call home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Teens get to Lead, Create, and Transform Their Communities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are few life experiences more transformational for young people than knowing they have the permission, resources, and adult support to identify and solve a problem in their world, and then to carry it out to completion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cYouthCreate taught me that my ideas matter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jayla, 16 years old<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBefore this, I never thought I was a leader. Now I know I am.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Malik, 14 years old<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI found my second family here.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sophia, 17 years old<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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