1 LIGHTLY EDITED CART FILE OUR GENDER REVOLUTION: YOUTH LEADERS IN ACTION FEBRUARY 16TH, 2017 1:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M. CENTRAL * * * * * THIS FILE IS BEING PROVIDED IN A LIGHTLY EDITED FORMAT. CART IS PROVIDED IN ORDER TO FACILITATE COMMUNICATION ACCESSIBILITY AND MAY NOT BE A TOTALLY VERBATIM RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS. THE TEXT MAY ALSO CONTAIN ENVIRONMENTAL SOUNDS THAT OCCURRED DURING THE EVENT." * * * * * CART PROVIDED BY LISA RICHARDSON, CRR, CBC, CCP PARADIGM REPORTING & CAPTIONING INC. 612.339. 0545 CAPTION@PARADIGMREPORTING.COM >> GOOD AFTERNOON. 2 MY NAME IS CASEY KEENE, THE DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS AND PREVENTION HERE AT THE NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. THIS WEBINAR IS PRESENTED AS A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT OF THE NRCDV DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS PROJECT AND PREVENT IVP PROJECT. THE NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS PLEASED TO OFFER THIS WEBINAR AS PART OF OUR TEEN DATING VIOLENCE AWARENESS AND PREVENTION MONTH INITIATIVE. THIS FEBRUARY WE'RE PUTTING A SPOTLIGHT ON YOUTH ACTIVISM AS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF AN EFFECTIVE MOVEMENT TO END GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE. YOUTH ACTIVISM HAS PROPELLED SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND TODAY WE'RE SEEING YOUTH TAKE ON MORE ISSUES THAN EVER, EMPLOYING A VARIETY OF CREATIVE STRATEGIES TO ACCOMPLISH REAL CHANGE. OUR INTENTIONAL EFFORTS TO EMBRACE INTERSECTIONAL APPROACHES TO OUR MOVEMENT WORK WILL HELP TO US CREATE REAL SOCIAL CHANGE TOGETHER. TODAY'S WEBINAR WILL EXPLORE THE OUR GENDER REVOLUTION YOUTH FRAMEWORK, WHICH INTRODUCES CONCEPTS OF GENDER, INEQUALITY AND A VISION OF THE WORLD TO END OPPRESSION AND VIOLENCE THAT ENGAGES YOUNG PEOPLE AS SOCIAL CHANGE AGENTS. 3 PRESENTERS FROM THE IDAHO COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WILL INTRODUCE THE 2017 WE CHOOSE ALL OF US CAMPAIGN THAT DIRECTLY ADDRESSES THE CURRENT CLIMATE OF HATE AND VIOLENCE IN OUR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES AS A MODEL FOR PROMOTING YOUTH-DRIVEN ACTIVISM FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION. AS YOU SEE ON THIS SLIDE, OUR GENDER REVOLUTION IS FEATURED AS THE TEEN D.V. MONTH'S TOOL OF THE WEEK ON THE PREVENTIPV.ORG WEBSITE, SO BE SURE TO CHECK THAT OUT. YOU CAN DOWNLOAD TOOLS AND YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT THEM THROUGH OUR TOOLS INVENTORY ON THE PREVENTIPV WEBSITE. NOW I AM COMPLETELY THRILLED TO WELCOME TODAY'S PRESENTERS. I'LL TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT THEM AND THEN I WILL BE PASSING THEM THE FLOOR AND WE'LL GET TO HEAR FROM THEM. SO, JENNIFER MARTINEZ IS A SOCIAL CHANGE ASSOCIATE FOR THE IDAHO COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WHERE SHE BEGAN WORKING IN NOVEMBER, 2016. A FIRST-GENERATION IDAHOAN, JENNIFER EARNED HER UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM GONZAGA -- I HOPE I'M PRONOUNCING THAT CORRECTLY -- UNIVERSITY IN 2009 WHERE SHE MAJORED IN POLITICAL SCIENCE AND MINORED IN LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES. 4 FOLLOWING GRADUATION, SHE WORKED FOR U.S. SENATOR PATTY MURRAY AS THE EASTERN WASHINGTON REPRESENTATIVE BASED OUT OF SPOKANE. IN 2012, JENNIFER RETURNED HOME TO IDAHO TO WORK IN THE POLITICAL ARENA WHERE SHE HELD VARIOUS ROLES. IN 2015, SHE SERVED AS THE ORGANIZING DIRECTOR FOR THE IDAHO COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK. MOST RECENTLY, JENNIFER WORKED AS A CONSULTANT FOR THE IDAHO COALITION AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT FOR THE UPPER SNAKE RIVER TRIBES ORGANIZATION. JEFF MATSUSHITA, ALSO A SOCIAL CHANGE ASSOCIATE FOR THE IDAHO COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, IS A FATHER, PARTNER AND BELIEVER IN CHANGE. SINCE 2004, HE'S BEEN A MEMBER OF THE IDAHO COALITION TEAM. THE COALITION HAS ALLOWED JEFF TO TRAVEL, LISTEN, ASK QUESTIONS AND BE PART OF THE MOVEMENT TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, GIRLS AND GENDER NON-CONFORMING COMMUNITY MEMBERS. IN THIS TIME OF MOVEMENT, JEFF HONORS INDIVIDUALS' STORIES, THE CONNECTION TO ONE ANOTHER, AND A SOLID PICK-UP GAME OF BASKETBALL. FANISEE BIAS IS A 17-YEAR-OLD JUNIOR AT CAPITAL HIGH SCHOOL AND AN INTERN, A YOUTH ACTIVIST AND ORGANIZER AT THE IDAHO COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC 5 VIOLENCE. SHE WAS BORN IN UTAH AND GREW UP IN THE HEART OF BOISE, IDAHO, CREATING RELATIONSHIPS WITH PEERS, FAMILY, FRIENDS AND MENTORS. SHE'S ENDING HER JUNIOR YEAR AND BEGINNING A PATH TO BEING MORE INVOLVED IN HER SCHOOL, COMMUNITY, FUTURE AND EDUCATING HERSELF TO BRING AWARENESS AND APPRECIATION TO CHANGE. SHE KEEPS HERSELF DETERMINED TO BE AN ADVOCATE AND ALLY THROUGHOUT HER EXPERIENCES IN LIFE. THE OPPORTUNITIES SHE HAS GIVE HER INSIGHT, MOTIVATION AND THE YOUTH-LED POWER TO BE THE BEST FOR THE FUTURE. LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST WE HAVE BUKKY OGUNRINOLA, A STUDENT, ATHLETE AND ORGANIZER AT THE IDAHO COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. AS A STUDENT, BUKKY OFTEN FINDS HERSELF LEARNING MORE ABOUT HERSELF, HER COMMUNITY AND THE WAYS THAT YOUTH LIKE HER CAN BECOME REVOLUTIONARIES IN MOVEMENTS WHERE YOUTH VOICES HAVE BEEN SILENCED. AS AN ORGANIZER, SHE COMMITS HERSELF TO BEING AN ACTIVE FORCE IN PLACES WHERE ONE MUST SPEAK UP AND SPEAK LOUD IN ORDER TO BE HEARD. AND AS AN ATHLETE, SHE ENJOYS THE CLARITY THAT A GOOD GAME OF 21 CAN BRING THE AVERAGE BASKETBALL PLAYER. AS A NIGERIAN IMMIGRANT, BUKKY PLANS TO FIGHT FOR ANY 6 INJUSTICES THAT HALTS PROGRESSION OF HER OR HER PEOPLE. SO PLEASED TO TURN OVER THE FLOOR, PRESENTERS. PLEASE GO AHEAD. >> GOOD AFTERNOON. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. SO HERE AGAIN IS INFORMATION ON US, BOISE BEING OUR ONLY URBAN AREA, TRULY URBAN AREA THROUGHOUT THE STATE. SO WITH THAT, WE'RE JUST GOING TO GO AHEAD AND MENTION THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE BASING THIS CONVERSATION TODAY ON THE SOCIAL CHANGE TO END REVOLUTION GUIDE. WE HAVE DEVELOPED THIS WITH YOUTH VOICES AT THE CENTER OF THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING AND WE ENCOURAGE FOLKS TO DOWNLOAD THIS AND FOLLOW THIS GUIDE TO THE BEST OF YOUR ABILITY WITH THE WHOLE TRANSPARENCY THAT WE ARE ALSO CONSTANTLY LEARNING FROM OUR OWN LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES, LEARNING EDGES AND IMPROVING EVERY DAY WITH THE WORK THAT WE DO WITH YOUTH HERE AT OUR COMMUNITY. WE HAVE RECORDED PODCASTS TO GO ALONG WITH THE GUIDE. [TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH THE CAPTIONING... CAPTIONER STOPPED CAPTIONING TO WORK WITH THOSE DIFFICULTIES.] AND THE YOUTH VOICES ARE -- THE YOUTH VOICES ARE MORE PRESENT THERE SO THAT'S INFORMATION FOR YOU. AGAIN, INTRODUCTION FOR US. 7 WE'RE THE IDAHO COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND WE ARE DOING WORK WITH YOUTH HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY TO CHALLENGE THE NARRATIVE AND THE REINFORCEMENTS OF GENDER NORMS SO WE HAVE A LOT OF DIVERSITY. [TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH THE CAPTIONING... CAPTIONER STOPPED CAPTIONING TO WORK WITH THOSE DIFFICULTIES.] END GENDER VIOLENCE, SO WE HAVE BEEN TAKING THAT AS A CENTER OF OUR YOUTH WORK OF INTERSECTIONAL LENS THAT WE BELIEVE THAT GENDER IS ONE IDENTITY THAT LINKS A LOT OF OPPRESSIONS TOGETHER. AS WE TALK ABOUT GENDER VIOLENCE TODAY, WE'LL DEFINE IT AS A WAY OF -- GENDER VIOLENCE STEMS FROM REINFORCEMENT OF SOCIAL NORMS THAT PRE-ASSIGNS OF GENDER ROLES AND VALUES AND ASSUMPTIONS OF POWER, POWERLESSNESS, THE TIED TO A GENDER BINARY. WE BELIEVE THIS IN TURN PERPETUATES A CLIMATE OF FEAR FOR CIS, TRANS GIRLS AND WOMEN AND PEOPLE WHO CHALLENGE THE NORMS OF HETERO RULE MALE DOMINANCE THROUGH THEIR ACTIONS OF SIMPLY WHO THEY ARE. WE BELIEVE THAT GENDER -- THE ROOTS OF GENDER VIOLENCE AND GENDER OPPRESSION ARE IN PATRIARCHY AND SO TOGETHER OUR COLLABORATIVE OR INTER-GENERATIONAL COLLABORATIVE HAS BEEN MAKING EFFORTS AND STRIDES IN MOVING FORWARD 8 TO END GENDER VIOLENCE IN IDAHO. >> WE WILL LYING -- WE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR WHAT YOUTH IS EXPERIENCING IN IDAHO, AND YOUTH EXPERIENCING VIOLENCE AT UNACCEPTABLE RATES WHICH IS WHY WE'RE CENTERING A LOT OF OUR RESPONSE AND PREVENTION WORK ON YOUTH HERE IN THE STATE. YOUTH FROM HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES EXPERIENCE DISPROPORTIONATELY HIGHER RATES OF ASSAULT WHICH IS WHY THAT'S BEING CENTERED IN THE WORKE THAT WE DO. NEARLY ONE IN 10 YOUTH IN THE UNITED STATES REPORT PHYSICAL VIOLENCE IN A DATING PARTNER AND ONE IN 12 ARE FORCED TO HAVE SEX AGAINST THEIR WILL, SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE KNOW IS A REALITY THAT WE HAVE TO WORK WITH AND WORK THROUGH TO PREVENT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. A 2011 FOR THE FROM THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL FOUND THAT ONE IN FIVE WOMEN AND NEARLY ONE IN SEVEN MEN WHO EXPERIENCED RAPE, PHYSICAL VIOLENCE AND/OR STALKING VIOLENCE FROM A PARTNER FIRST EXPERIENCED THIS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 11 AND 17 YEARS OLD, WHICH IS WHY IT'S SO CRUCIAL TO DO PREVENTION WORK AT A YOUNG AGE. ADDITIONALLY, ALMOST HALF OF ALL FEMALE VICTIMS WHO HAVE BEEN RAPED EXPERIENCE THEIR FIRST RAPE BEFORE THE 9 AGE OF 18. 30% OF THAT HAPPENED IN-BETWEEN THE AGES, AGAIN, OF 11 AND 17 YEARS OLD, AND THESE REPORTS INCLUDE SEXUAL EXPERIENCES THAT ARE DUE TO COERCION, SO THOSE NUMBERS FOR US ARE TOO HIGH AND SO A LOFT WORK WE'RE DOING IS NOT ONLY ON REDUCING THOSE NUMBERS BUT REALLY IDENTIFYING THE ROOT CAUSES THAT LEAD TO THOSE SITUATIONS SO WE CAN ADDRESS THAT AND WE'LL TOUCH -- WE'LL DIVE INTO THAT A LITTLE BIT DEEPER IN THE CONVERSATION, BUT WITH THOSE NUMBERS, THOSE ARE EVEN HIGHER FOR YOUTH FROM HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES, SO -- IN A 2013 STUDY DEMONSTRATED THAT RATES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMIZATION AMONG A LATINO ADOLESCENTS WAS AT 19.5% AND THE SURVEY REPORTED THAT 19 TO 29% OF LGBTQ HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS EXPERIENCED DATING VIOLENCE IN THE PRIOR YEAR. 14% TO 31% OF GAY AND LESBIAN STUDENTS AND 17% TO 32% OF BISEXUAL STUDENTS WERE FORCED TO HAVE SEXUAL INTERCOURSE. THESE RATES ARE THREE TIMES HIGHER THAN THE CUMULATIVE REPORTS OF ALL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS REPORTING HAVING EXPERIENCED ABUSE OR RAPE. SO WE KNOW THAT THIS IS HAPPENING, WE KNOW IT'S HAPPENING AT HIGHER RATES FOR THOSE FROM HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED COMMUNITY, WHICH IS WHY WE CREATED THIS 10 GUIDE SO THAT WE CAN HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HOW DO WE TRULY ENGAGE YOUTH IN THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING, AND I KNOW NUMBERS ARE NEVER FUN TO LISTEN TO BUT NUMBERS ARE UNFORTUNATELY DRIVE A LOT OF OUR WORK SO WE WANT TO SHARE SOME OF THOSE STATISTICS WITH YOU. AND WE ARE GOING TO GO AHEAD ON TO THE NEXT SLIDE NOW AND FANISEE AND BUKKY ARE GOING TO BE LEADING US. >> HI, THIS IS FANISEE. I'M SORRY, I SOUNDS A LITTLE SCRATCHY, I'M A LITTLE BIT [INDISCERNIBLE] BUT FIRST WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT SOCIAL CHANGE AND WHAT IS SOCIAL CHANGE AND HOW DOES THE APPROACH FOR SOCIAL CHANGE DIFFER, I GUESS, FROM RIG. WE WANT TO KEEP INTERSECTIONALITY IN MIND MOST DEFINITELY. SOCIAL CHANGE SPEAKS TO TRANSFORM THE UNDERLYING CONDITIONS THAT RESULT IN DOMINATION, EXTRACTION AND VIOLENCE -- AND VIOLENCE TOWARDS THE VISION OF WORLD INTERDEPENDENCE, RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY, RIGHT, SO WE'RE ALL DEEPLY INTERCONNECTED AS HUMAN BEINGS, AND ANY SOCIAL CHANGE BENEFITS ALL OF US, ABSOLUTELY, ESPECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE. STRONG LEADERS AND SPIRITUAL GUIDES ACROSS MANY CULTURES HAVE DESCRIBED OUR INTERCONNECTEDNESS AS A REASON FOR DOING THE RIGHT THINGS AND WORKING FOR AND TOWARDS CHANGE. 11 IT IS THROUGH UNDERSTANDING THIS INTERCONNECTEDNESS THAT WE CAN ALL BE LIBERATED, BOTH THE OPPRESSED AND THE PRIVILEGED. >> HI, THIS IS BUKKY. I'M GOING TO BE SPEAKING ON THE GENDER -- HOW GENDER VIOLENCE IS NOT INDIVIDUALIZED, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT IT RESULTED IN SYSTEMIC AND SOCIETAL CONDITIONS THAT PERPETUATE VIOLENCE AGAINST CIS AND GENDER -- AND THOSE WHO ARE GENDER NON-CONFIRM. [ Indiscernible ] NEED TO EXTENDS BEYOND THE INDIVIDUAL AND FOCUS ON COMMUNITY, SOCIETIESAL LEVELS THAT CREATE THESE HIERARCHIES, WHEN IT COMES TO GIRLS AND WOMEN. TO REFLECT THE DEEPER UNDERSTANDING, SO WE NEED TO ADDRESS THE ROOT CAUSES THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THIS CULTURE OF DOMINATION, AND THIS CULTURE OF VIOLENCE, AND A BROADER APPROACH IS NOT JUST INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIORS BUT ALSO SOCIETAL PROBLEMS, INDIVIDUAL LEVELS, RELATIONAL LEVELS AND WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY... [LOST AUDIO] 6 >> BUKKY, ARE YOU STILL WITH US? >> YEAH, SORRY. AND INSTITUTIONS THROUGHOUT OUR SOCIETY. 12 THROUGH OUR INFLUENCE IN OUR RELATIONSHIP TO THESE SYSTEMS. >> WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT HOW GENDER VIOLENCE IS THE RESULT OF SYSTEMATIC AND SOCIETAL CONDITIONS THAT ACTUALLY PERPETUATE VIOLENCE AGAINST CIS AND TRANSGENDER GIRLS AND WOMEN AND PEOPLE WHO ARE GENDER NON-CONFORM AND THIS IS WHY OUR STRATEGIES MUST GO BEYOND THE INDIVIDUAL AND RELATIONAL LEVELS AND MUST FOCUS ON COMMUNITY AND SOCIETAL LEVELS IN ORDER TO CREATE CHANGE WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES. >> MOVING ON WITH THAT IS, WE HAVE TO KEEP THIS IDEA OF INTERSECTIONABILITY IN MIND. INTERSECTIONALITY IS A FRAMEWORK THAT TAKES INTO ACCOUNT THE MOTH SYSTEMIC PRESENTS SUCH AS -- MANY OTHER FORMS OF OPPRESSION AND ARE CONNECTED TO ONE ANOTHER. [AUDIO IS VERY DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND] PROBLEMS ARE NOT SINGLE ISSUE LIVES -- SINGLE ISSUES CANNOT AFFECT ONE ASPECTS OF AN INDIVIDUAL BUT INSTEAD THERE ARE MULTIPLE ISSUES THAT GO INTO PROBLEMS, SOCIETAL PROBLEMS -- SOCIETAL HIERARCHIES. AGAIN, ONE CANNOT LOOK, EXAMINE ONE FORM OF OPPRESSION WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE OTHER AND THEY CANNOT BE SEPARATED UNDERSTANDING THAT WE ARE BORN [INDISCERNIBLE] IS ANOTHER FRAMEWORK THAT TAKES INTO 13 ACCOUNT THE IDENTITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS ARE USED IN OUR CULTURE OF DOMINATION, EXTRACTION AND VIOLENCE TO [INDISCERNIBLE] AND OUR HUMANITIES. >> THIS IS JENNIFER AGAIN, SO INTERSECTIONABILITY IS SUCH A CRUCIAL PIECE IN THE WORK THAT WE DO BECAUSE WE TROUBLE BELIEVE IN MAKING SURE THAT EVERYONE'S FULL LIVED EXPERIENCES ARE PRESENT WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WORKING TO PREVENT GENDER VIOLENCE, SO, FOR EXAMPLE, I'LL TAKE MYSELF FOR EXAMPLE, IN THIS. I AM A CIS-GENDERED WOMAN WHO'S ALSO LATINO, WHO'S ALSO A FIRST GENERATION WHOSE PARENTS WERE UNDOCUMENTED, AND, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT IDENTITIES, ALL ARE CONNECTED TO EACH OTHER IN SOME WAY, SO I CAN'T TALK ABOUT PREVENTING GENERAL GEAR VIOLENCE WITHOUT ALL THE DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES I MYSELF HAVE HAD, SO WHEN WE'RE WORKING WITH YOUTH AS WE ARE TRYING TO DO THIS, WE ALSO HAVE TO BE INTERSECTIONAL IN THE WAY WE APPROACH IT BECAUSE OF ALL THE LIVED EXPERIENCES THAT OUR YOUTH HAVE HAD, AS WELL, SO THAT IS WHY THAT'S SOMETHING WE TRULY BELIEVE IS SO CRUCIAL TO THE WORK THAT WE DO. >> AND THE COALITION HAS BEEN DOING YOUTH, ENGAGEMENT, TYPE OF WORK SINCE 2006 AND WHEN WE FIRST HAD OUR INITIAL ROLL-OUT OF THE WORK, IT WAS VERY MAINSTREAM AND WAS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ENTIRE STATE AND 14 EVERYONE'S LIVED EXPERIENCES. SO WE HAVE REFLECTED OVER THE YEARS OF THOSE FIRST COUPLE YEARS THAT WE RAN THE CAMPAIGNS FOR APPLICATIONS AROUND THE STATE TO HAVE UP TO 20 STUDENTS GUIDE OUR WORK AND WE CALLED IT A LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE AND WHAT WE THOUGHT WAS REALLY THEIR VOICE, WERE IN FACT WE GOT SOME AMAZING RESUMÉS THAT CAME BACK TO US AND WE WERE VERY EXCITED AND WE BROUGHT THESE 20 YOUTH DOWN TO BOISE AND WHAT WE FOUND IS THEY WERE VERY AWESOME. THEY HAD AMAZING CREDIBILITIES, OUTSTANDING GPAs, ALL KINDS OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WORK THAT WAS VERY SEPTEMBER TRICK TO THE DOMINANT CULTURE, WHICH IN THE STATE OF IDAHO WAS VERY EXCITE, AND CHRISTIAN. IT WAS FOCUSED OWNED INDIVIDUAL LEVEL, ABOUT RESPONSIBILITIES AND WHAT WE DESERVE AS INDIVIDUALS AROUND HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP FRAMEWORK, AND WE DO THINK THAT WAS GOOD WORK AT THE TIME AND NOW AS WE PROGRESSED, WE REALIZED THAT TO TRULY REPRESENT THE STATE OF IDAHO, WE NEED TO INCLUDE THE VOICES FROM OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO ARE FROM REFUGEES, OUR TRIBAL COMMUNITIES IN THE STATE, AND OTHER COMMUNITIES FROM HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES. SO AS AN ORGANIZATION, WE HAD TO REFLECT ON HOW WE WERE REPRESENTING YOUTH VOICES AND WHAT WORK WE WERE DOING AND THIS HAS BEEN A LONG TEN-YEAR JOURNEY FOR US AND 15 WE'RE STILL TRYING TO MAKE THINGS HAPPEN AND LEARN AND THE TWO VOICES THAT WE HAVE TODAY, BOTH FANISEE AND BUKKY HAVE BEEN AMAZING GUIDES AND PROVIDING US WITH LEADERSHIP AND HOW THIS YEAR'S OUR GENDER REVOLUTION CAMPAIGN HAS ROLLED OUT AND MANIFESTED. >> AND THE WORK THAT WE DO, IT'S NOT EASY, WE DEFINITELY DON'T WANT TO GIVE THE IMPRESSION THAT IT'S EASY. THE FACT THAT WE HAVE HE BEEN DOING THIS FOR TEN YEARS AND WE'RE STILL LEARNING I THINK SPEAKS TO HOW MESSY SOMETIMES THE WORK CAN BE AND HOW UNCOMFORTABLE IT CAN BE, BUT WHEN WE'RE CREATING SOCIAL CHANGE, THE WORK IS GOING TO BE MESSY AND UNCOMFORTABLE BUT WHEN WE COME OUT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT, WE'RE GETTING CLOSER EVERY SINGLE DAY TO SOCIAL CHANGE HERE IN THE STATE AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AND PART OF THAT IS DRIVEN BY THE SOCIO ECOLOGICAL MODEL, SO WE, LIKE JEFF MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY, A LOT OF THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST HAS FOCUSED ON THE INDIVIDUAL AND RELATIONAL LEVEL OF INDIVIDUALS BUT WE -- IN TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE FULL LIVED EXPERIENCE OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE STATE AND OF PEOPLE IN GENERAL, WE ALSO HAVE TO BE AWARE OF THE COMMUNITY AND THE SOCIETAL LEVEL OF THE SOCIO ECOLOGICAL MODEL THAT HAS [INDISCERNIBLE] US AS INDIVIDUALS, THOSE WOULD BE 16 THINGS LIKE THE SOCIAL NORMS THAT WE'RE EXPECTED TO MEET OR BEHAVE IN CERTAIN WAYS AND THE LARGER SOCIETAL INSTITUTIONS THAT PERPETUATE OPPRESSION OR PERPETUATE STEREOTYPES, AS WELL. SO WHAT A LOT OF THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING NOW FOR OUR GENDER REVOLUTION IS FOCUSED ON ADDRESSING THOSE MULTIPLE SYSTEMIC OPPRESSIONS AND UNDERSTANDING HOW THOSE CAN IMPACT GREATLY THE EXPERIENCES THAT YOUNG PEOPLE ARE HAVING IN THEIR LIVES AND HOW THAT LEADS OFTEN TO VIOLENCE, GENDER VIOLENCE, SO WE UNDERSTAND IT'S NOT A ONE-DIMENSIONAL APPROACH -- IT'S NOT A 1-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEM SO WE CANNOT TAKE A ONE-DIMENSIONAL APPROACH TO IT. WE TRULY UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO DO SO WHAT YOU'LL SEE AS WE CONTINUE TO MOVE ON THROUGH THIS IS THAT THE SOCIETAL LEVEL AND THE COMMUNITY/INSTITUTIONAL LEVEL ARE WHERE A LOT OF THE ROOT PROBLEMS ARE OCCURRING THAT LEAD TO THE SITUATIONS WHERE INDIVIDUALS ARE IN DANGEROUS OR PRECARIOUS SITUATIONS SO THAT IS WHERE WE ARE FOCUSING ON ADDRESSING THESE CHANGES, AND WITH THAT, WE GO INTO THE FIRST PIECE OF THE -- TRYING TO REALLY ENGAGE YOUTH IN THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING AND IN YOUR ORGANIZATION WHICH IS BUILDING AN INTERGENERATIONAL COLLABORATIVE. AND FANISEE AND BUKKY ARE GOING TO LEAD US THROUGH SOME 17 OF THAT. >> STARTING OFF WITH A COUPLE OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS THAT YOUTH HAVE BEEN THE CENTER OF, ONE INCLUDING THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THE ISSUE THAT BLACK LIVES MATTER HIGHLIGHTS ON IS YOUTH AND DISPROPORTIONATELY MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES, THE INNER CITIES, PLACES WHERE THE POLICE PRESENCE IS VERY HIGH. YOU HAVE TO LOOK TO THE FACT THAT YOUTH STORIES ARE DEFINITELY HIGHLIGHTED AND THEY ARE EXPERTS ON THEIR ENVIRONMENTS AND THEIR CULTURES AND BECAUSE OF THAT, THEY NEED TO BE IN THE FOREFRONT OF THESE MOVEMENTS, THEY NEED TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK ON THEM WITHOUT FEELING THE NEED TO VALIDATE THEMSELVES OR THEIR STORIES. YOUNG PEOPLE ARE THE MOST CREATIVE, YET THEY ARE THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD AND THE VITAL VOICES AND LEADERS IN THEIR SOCIAL CHANGE WORK BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THEY'RE MISUNDERSTOOD, BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THEY'RE UNDERVALUED, IT CAUSES THEM TO TRY TO HIDE ON THE BACK FRONT OF THESE MOVEMENT. BLACK LIVES MATTER ESPECIALLY TRIES TO KEEP YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY YOUTH OF COLOR AT THE FOREFRONT, YOU SEE THEM ON SOCIAL MEDIA, YOU SEE THEM ON THE NEWSCAST BEING REVOLUTIONARIES AND FOLLOWING THE STEPS OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE THEM AND WHEN YOU GIVE YOUTH THE ABILITY TO BE THAT CENTER, BE THAT VOICE, IT CAUSES 18 THEM TO NOT ONLY EXPAND ON TO THAT SPECIFIC ISSUE, THAT SPECIFIC MOVEMENT, BLACK LIVES MATTER, BUT SPREAD ON TO OTHER MOVEMENT, SUCH AS STANDING ROCK, THE YOUTH VOICES BEHIND STANDING ROCK IS SO APPARENT, YOU SEE THEM MARCHING, YOU SEE THEM TWEETING, YOU SEE THEM ON SOCIAL MEDIA, YOU SEE THEM FINDING WHERE THEY CAN SOLVE THAT -- HELP THAT ONE MOVEMENT. SO ESSENTIALLY WHEN YOU GIVE YOUTH THEIR VOICE, THEY'RE ABLE TO EXPAND THEIR VOICES ON TO OTHER HORIZONS AND OTHER ISSUES, AS WELL. >> I ABSOLUTELY DEGREE WITH THAT, BUKKY. CAN EVERYONE HEAR ME? SORRY, I CHANGED HEADPHONES. >> YEP, YOU SOUND GOOD. >> AWESOME. ADDING ON TO THAT WITH YOUR YOUTH LEADERSHIP BEING AT THE CENTER OF SOCIAL CHANGE AND JUST A RECENT SOCIAL CHANGE SLASH MARCH THAT HAPPENED WAS THE WOMEN'S MARCH AND I FORTUNATELY WAS ABLE TO BE A PART OF VOLUNTEERING FOR THE WOMEN'S MARCH, AND I CANNOT STRESS HOW IMPORTANT HAVING THAT INTERGENERATIONAL COLLABORATIVE WAS BECAUSE NOT ONLY DID I HAVE THINGS TO SAY AND OUTPUT TO GIVE, BUT ALSO ANYONE YOUNGER THAN ME OR OLDER THAN ME WAS DEFINITELY ABLE TO SPEAK THEIR MIND ABOUT HOW THE MARCH COULD GO AND HOW, LIKE, IN THEIR 19 PERSPECTIVE, I COULD SEE THE GENERATION COMING TOGETHER, DEFINITELY YOUTH AND ADULTS COMING TOGETHER WHICH I LOVE TO SEE AND THAT'S WHAT MOTIVATES ME AS A YOUTH LEADER TO CREATE THIS SOCIAL CHANGE, IS TO SEE MOST PEOPLE WORKING TOGETHER, AS CLICHE AS THAT SOUNDS, IT FEELS GOOD AND THAT'S HOW A COMMUNITY SHOULD FEEL. WITH THE WOMEN'S MARCH AND BEING ABLE TO VOLUNTEER, I GOT AN INSIGHT AND BACKGROUND ON HOW TO LIED AND HOW TO LEAD MY COMMUNITY AND HOW TO LEAD WITH ADULTS AND SO PUTTING THAT ON JUST FELT REALLY GREAT AND GOING THROUGH THE MARCH AND JUST BEING A PART OF IT, SEEING THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE THERE ALL WANTING TO BE A PART OF IT AND JUST STANDING UP FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVE IN REALLY SHOWED INITIATIVE AND SHOWED A GREAT SOCIAL CHANGE COMING TOGETHER, WITH YOUTH BEING AT THE FOREFRONT, YOUTH BEING THERE TO SUPPORT OTHER YOUTH OR BEING THERE TO SUPPORT THE -- YOU KNOW, THE ADULTS, AND SO I JUST THOUGHT THAT WAS REALLY AWESOME AND MAKES YOUTH REALLY FEEL GREAT. I'M SURE IT CAN MAKE THE ADULTS FEEL GREAT BEING ABLE TO LEAD AND MENTOR THE YOUTH AND MAKE SURE THAT WE ALL BRING UP THAT SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE MOST POSITIVE WAY, SO I'M JUST GLAD I WAS THERE AT THE WOMEN'S MARCH. THAT'S ONE OF MY MAIN EXPERIENCES BUT I AM SO READY TO GET MORE INVOLVED, BEING YOUTH AND BEING ACCEPTED BY 20 OTHER PEOPLE IN MY YOUTH AND ADULTS TO CREATE THE SOCIAL CHANGE. >> AND THIS IS JENNIFER AGAIN. I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT ON THE SLIDE, THE TWO YOUNG PERSONS ON THE SCREEN WERE ACTUALLY THE ORGANIZERS OF THE WOMAN'S MARCH HERE IN IDAHO IN BOISE. THEY'RE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. THEY DIDN'T SEE ANYONE TAKING THE LEAD SO THEY JUMPED RIGHT IN AND STARTED PLANNING AND THEY HAD YOUTH LIKE FANISEE WHO WERE ENGAGED RIGHT AWAY WHO WANTED TO HELP. THE WOMAN'S MARCH IN BOISE WAS DEFINITELY YOUTH-DRIVEN WITH ADULTS THERE AS A SUPPORT, TO HELP ACCOMPLISH SOME OF THE MORE LOGISTICAL THINGS THAT NEEDED TO HAPPEN AND WE WERE ABLE TO PROVIDE RESOURCES TO THAT. AND THE OTHER ORGIZING EFFORT THAT'S HAPPENING NATIONALLY RIGHT NOW THAT IS TOTALLY DRIVEN BY YOUTH IS THE DREAMERS MOVEMENT, AS WELL, AND IF YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH DREAMERS, THEY'RE UNDOCUMENTED STUDENT WHO CAME TO THIS COUNTRY AT A VERY YOUNG AGE WHO WANT TO CONTINUE GOING TO SCHOOL AND WANT TO GO TO COLLEGE OR WANT TO GO TO TECHNICAL SCHOOL OR LEARN A TRADE, AND THEY CAN'T BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO PAY THE OUT-OF-STATE OR INTERNATIONAL RATE FOR TUITION BECAUSE THEY'RE UNDOCUMENTED. SO THERE IS AN EFFORT TO HAVE IN-STATE TUITION FOR 21 UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS SO THEY CAN CONTINUE TO GO TO SCHOOL AND BE ABLE TO AFFORD TO DO THAT, SINCE THEY DON'T QUALIFY FOR FEDERAL FINANCIAL AID OR MOST SCHOLARSHIPS, OR GRANTS, FOR THAT MATTER. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR MANY YEARS BUT HAS ALWAYS BEEN CENTERED ON AND RUN BY UNDOCUMENTED YOUTH. SO THAT'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE ORGANIZING HAPPENING HERE IN THE STATE AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AS WELL, AND TO HIGHLIGHT THE GREAT LEADERSHIP THAT YOUTH BRINGS TO THE MOVEMENT. SO I'LL STOP TALKING THERE BECAUSE I BELIEVE FANISEE AND BUKKY HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE TO SHARE WITH US. >> >> NO, THANK YOU, JEN, I TOTALLY AGREE ON THAT AND THAT JUST SHOWS HOW YOUTH ARE EXPERTS ON THEIR ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE AND HOW THEY CAN DEVELOP RELEVANT, ENGAGING AND EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES WITHIN THEIR COMMUNITY. YOUNG PEOPLE ARE THE MOST CREATIVE AND MISUNDERSTOOD AND VITAL VOICES AND LEADERS IN SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL WORK. GOING ON TO OUR NEXT SLIDE, WHICH IS YOUTH LEADERSHIP, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE KNOW THAT PASSION IS A VITAL KEY AND COMPONENT IN WHAT DRIVES THE YOUTH. SO WE NEED TO FIND LEADERS LIKE YOUTH, AND EVERYONE CAN 22 FIND LEAD YEARS NOT ONLY IN SCHOOL BUT IN THE COMMUNITY TO ACCESS THE POWER OF YOUTH LEADERS, YOU SHOULD TRY TO START BY ENGAGING YOUTH FROM HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED COMMUNITY, BEING PART OF A INTERGENERATIONAL COLLABORATIVE WHICH MAY INCLUDE RACIALLY AND ETHNICITY DIVERSE YOUTH, NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH, LGBTQ YOUTH, YOUTH WHO ARE UNDOCUMENTED AND YOUTH WHO ARE REFUGEES, JUST GETTING A LOT OF THOSE INTERSECTIONALITY ATTENTION ALL INTO ONE AND BRINGING THOSE PERSPECTIVES AND VARIETIES AND JUST REACHING OUT AS MUCH AS YOU CAN. >> THANK YOU, FANISEE. MOVING ON -- EXPANDING ON FROM THAT, YOU HAVE TO RECRUIT YOUTH THAT ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT IMPACTING THEIR PEER GROUPS, SO IN ORDER TO HAVE YOUTH THAT IMPACT THEIR COMMUNITIES IN POSITIVE WAYS, YOU HAVE TO HAVE YOUTH WHO ARE [INDISCERNIBLE] LEADER WITHIN THEIR SCHOOLS, THEIR COMMUNITIES, YOUTH WHO ARE NOT SCARED ABOUT BEING ALMOST THE LEADERS OF HARSH TOPICS, TALKING ABOUT LEADING [INDISCERNIBLE] CONVERSATIONS ON DIFFICULT TOP INC., MAKING PEOPLE UNCOMFORTABLE, BECAUSE WE LIVE IN AN UNCOMFORTABLE SOCIETY AND INDIVIDUALS MUST BE CHALLENGED ON THEIR IDEALS AND [INDISCERNIBLE] THEY HAVE CURRENTLY. ALSO, YOU HAVE TO ENGAGE WITH YOUTH LEADERS, BUILDING THE PARTNERSHIPS WITH -- ACTIVE LISTENING, MEANINGFUL 23 RELATIONSHIP BUILDING. SO THESE RELATIONSHIPS NEED TO MOVE BEYOND THE TRANS SEXUAL PARTNERSHIPS AND PROJECTS, SO TO SAY, IN INTERCONNECTED WAYS OF WORKING WITH EACH OTHER SO YOU HAVE TO TAKE WHAT YOUTH TELL YOU AND NOT JUST [INDISCERNIBLE] FROM THE PLATFORM THEY'RE TELLING YOU SO YOU UNDERSTAND IT BUT INSTEAD TAKE WHAT THEY SAY AND EXPENDS MORE FROM THAT, ASK THEM HOW THEY CAN BE A PART OF IT, ASK THEM HOW YOU CAN BE A HELPING HAND, A SUPPORTING ROLE IN GETTING WHAT THEY BELIEVE DONE. ALSO, BUILD RELATIONSHIPS AMONG YOUTH LEADERS ACROSS YOUR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITIES AND CELEBRATE THE DIVERSITY, THE IDENTITIES AND HISTORIES OF YOUTH IN YOUR COMMUNITIES AND WHY YOUTH MOVEMENTS, AS WELL, EXCHANGE SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE TO INCREASE THE LEADERSHIP AND YOUTH TO LEAD A LOCAL CHANGE EFFORTS IN THEIR COMMUNITY. >> YEAH, TO ADD ON TO THAT, THOSE ARE ALL GREAT POINT AND I HAVE SOME OTHER POINTS, TOO, IS TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH TO LEAD BOLDLY. LEAD BOTH CONVERSATIONS AND TO BUILD THAT YOUTH POWER TO CREATE THAT SAFE [INDISCERNIBLE] AND ALSO DEEPEN YOUNG PUPIL'S KNOWLEDGE AROUND -- AND STRENGTHENING THEIR SKILLS WHEN ENGAGING SYSTEMS LEADERS AND DECISION-MAKERS. 24 ALSO SHIFT THE NARRATIVE OF HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED YOUTH TO VIEW THEM AS A POSITIVE ASSET AND COMMUNITY LEADER, AND MAKING THEM INCLUDED IN JUST BEING INCLUSIVE AND INVOLVED IN GAINING THAT KNOWLEDGE AND THAT INFORMATION TO BE AN ADVOCATE. >> BECAUSE AN INTERGENERATIONAL COLLABORATIVE IS SO NECESSARY, ADULT ALLIES NEED TO UNDERSTAND THEY NEED TO CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT THAT IS CONDUCIVE TO HELPING YOUTH FIND THEIR VOICE, THEIR POSITION, THEIR LEADERSHIP STYLE. THEY SHOULD BE HELPING [INDISCERNIBLE] YOUTH ARE ABLE TO FEEL LIKE THEY ARE VALUED AND THEY ARE RESPECTED AND THEY ARE UNDERSTOOD IN SITUATIONS WHERE MOST OF THE TIME THEY AREN'T. >> AWESOME. THANK YOU SO MUCH, BUKKY AND FANISEE. AND LEADING OFF THAT CONVERSATION ABOUT ADULTS BEING ALLIES, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE REALLY BEEN FOCUSING ON AND IDENTIFYING IS ROLE MODELS AS MENTORS AND AS CHAMPIONS OF YOUTH, AS WELL. SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HERE AT THE COALITION HAS HAPPENED -- ACTUALLY, I WAS HIRED RECENTLY SO I'M VERY NEW TO THE STAFF AND I WAS ONE OF NEW HIRES WHO HAD -- I'M A LATINA SO THAT'S MY BACKGROUND, MY CULTURAL EXPERIENCE AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT HAS ALLOWED ME TO 25 CONNECT WITH OUR YOUTH ORGANIZERS ON A DIFFERENT LEVEL, EVEN THOUGH WE MIGHT NOT NECESSARILY EXPERIENCE THE SAME CULTURE OR EXPERIENCE THE SAME THINGS, GROWING UP AS MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES IN IDAHO IS SOMETHING WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO CONNECT ON AND BEING A LITTLE BIT CLOSER IN AGE DOESN'T HURT, EITHER, SO IT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT HAS ALLOWED ME TO CONNECT MORE WITH YOUTH AND HOPEFULLY YOU FEEL THE SAME WAY, AS WELL, SO I'M ALSO VERY TRANSPARENT IN EVERYTHING THAT I DO WITH THEM TO AVOID ANY MISCOMMUNICATION THERE, AS WELL, SO IDENTIFYING STAFF WHO CAN CULTURALLY IDENTIFY WITH YOUNG PEOPLE FROM THOSE COMMUNITIES AND IDENTIFY YOUNG ADULTS WHO CAN IDENTIFY AMONG THE [INDISCERNIBLE] AS WELL IS CRUCIAL TO THIS WORK. [Overlapping Conversation] >> THANK YOU, JEN. I APPRECIATE THAT. EXPANDING ON WHAT JEN WAS SAYING, EXTENDING ON THE FACT THAT SHE WAS A PFC IN A COMMUNITY WHERE -- IN IDAHO WHERE YOU DON'T REALLY SEE A LOT OF POC, ESPECIALLY WOMEN OF COLOR BEING IN PLACES OF POWER AND POSITION, HIGH PLACES, IT'S GREAT TO HAVE MENTORS AS A YOUTH, ESPECIALLY, GREAT TO SEE MENTORS THAT IDENTIFY WITH SOME OF THE GROUPS AROUND YOU. 26 I NOTE IT'S GREAT SEEING JENNIFER AND ONE OF THE OTHER LEADERS THAT WE HAVE, STEPHANIE, BEING IN PLACES WHERE US AS YOUTH CAN GO TO THEM AND WONDER HOW, LIKE, HOW THEY MADE IT AND THEY CAN MENTOR US AND LEAD US THROUGH OUR LIVES, AS WELL. SO WHEN BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS WITH YOUTH LEADERS, IT'S IMPORTANT TO KEEP A FEW THINGS IN MIND, ONE INCLUDING THE IMPORTANCE OF TRANSPARENCY, BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT YOUTH [INDISCERNIBLE] ADULTS AS ALMOST AN AUTHORITY FIGURE, THERE HAS TO BE A LEVEL OF TRANSPARENCY BETWEEN THE YOUTH AND ALSO THE ADULTS, AS WELL. THIS ALLOWS THEM TO BE PERSONALIZED -- THIS PERSONALIZES THE YOUTH WITH THE ADULTS AND IT CREATES A SITUATION WHERE BOTH OF THEM ARE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER. IT ALSO ALLOWS THEM TO SHOW THAT THEY AREN'T PERFECT. ADULTS AREN'T PERFECT, YOUTH AREN'T PERFECT SO WHY CREATE A SITUATION WHERE YOU BOTH ARE IN A PLACE WHERE YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU CAN'T MESS UP BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ONLY -- THEY KNOW THE MOST OR WHATNOT BUT THEY DON'T BECAUSE BOTH ARE LEARNING AT THE SAME TIME, THE SAME SPEED, SO THERE SHOULD BE SOME SORT OF RELATIONSHIP BUILT BETWEEN THEM. ALSO, I FIND IT INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT THAT YOUTH FEEL 27 UNDERSTOOD ESPECIALLY BECAUSE YOUTH GO TO SCHOOL FOR MORE THAN SIX HOURS A DAY EVERY DAY, THEY'RE IN SITUATIONS WHERE THEY AREN'T -- THEIR VOICES AREN'T BEING HEARD TO THEIR FULL CAPACITY SO YOU MUST CREATE THAT SPACE WHERE AFTER SCHOOL THEY FEEL LIKE THEY'RE VALUED, UNDERSTOOD, THEY CAN COME AND TALK TO YOU AND YOU CAN -- THEY CAN SEE THAT YOU GENUINELY CARE ABOUT THEM, AS WELL. I KNOW THAT -- SORRY. YOU KNOW THAT GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE DOES NOT AFFECT YOUTH, NOR DOES IT JUST AFFECT ADULTS SO IT HAS TO BE INTERGENERATIONAL BECAUSE [INDISCERNIBLE] SUCH AN IMPORTANT ISSUE IN OUR LIVES, IT HAS YET TO REALIZE BOTH THE ASPECTS OF THE YOUTH AND THE ADULT -- BOTH THE YOUTH AND THE ADULT -- I CAN'T FIND THE WORD -- I GUESS BOTH THE YOUTH AND THE ADULT LIFE -- SITUATIONS IN LIFE AND HOW THEY GOT TO -- HOW THEY WERE ABLE TO COME -- I'M SORRY, I'M LIKE ROLLING AROUND WORDS. SORRY. [INDISCERNIBLE] AFFECT YOUTH NOR ADULTS SO YOU HAVE TO REALIZE THAT THE SINGLE ISSUE [INDISCERNIBLE] AREN'T JUST AFFECTED TOWARDS YOUTH NOR JUST ADULTS SO YOU HAVE TO REALIZE THERE HAS TO BE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THEM BECAUSE INTERGENERATIONAL PROBLEMS CANNOT BE SOLVED BY JUST ONE GENERATION SOLVING THEM, BECAUSE THEY AFFECT 28 SUCH A WIDE GROUP OF PEOPLE, SO YOU HAVE TO SUPPORT THEM AND RESPECT YOUR CONSTITUENCY, MAKE SURE THAT YOU SUPPORT ALL THEIR PASSIONS AND YOU EXPLORE AND SET COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS AS A GROUP, MAKE SURE THAT WHEN YOUTH ENTER A ROOM, THERE IS A SET OF GUIDELINES THAT THEY KNOW ARE GOING TO BE FOLLOWED EVERY SINGLE TIME THEY ANSWER THAT ROOM AND ALLOWS THEM TO SPEAK THEIR TRUTHS MORE AND ALSO MAKE SURE THEY MODIFY -- YOU MODIFY THEM ACCORDING TO WHICH GROUP AND YOUTH YOU ARE WITH. ALSO, MAKE SURE THAT YOU PROVIDE POSITIVE REINFORCEMENTS. DO NOT JUST SHUT THEM DOWN ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THEY ARE SHUT DOWN A LOT BECAUSE THEY ARE YOUNG, THEY HAVEN'T EXPERIENCED LIFE YET, BECAUSE THEY ARE SO, QUOTE, UNQUOTE, NAIVE. WHEN WE RISK SILENCING THE YOUTH AND WHEN THEY FEEL SILENCED, IT CREATES A WHOLE OTHER BEARER THAT NEEDS TO BE KNOCKED DOWN. MAKE SURE YOU AVOID CONSTANTLY SAYING NO. THEY HEAR NO A LOT, I KNOW I DO BY MY PARENTS, OTHER PEOPLE, SO IF THEY'RE GIVING YOU SOLUTIONS, DON'T JUST WRITE THEM OFF EVEN THOUGH YOU TRULY BELIEVE THAT THEY AREN'T -- FIND A WAY TO -- THEY CAN MAKE DECISIONS FOR THEMSELVES SO FIND A WAY TO TURN IT INTO A PLACE WHERE 29 THEY FEEL THEIR VOICES ARE BEING HEARD BUT YOU CAN ALSO CREATE BETTER SOLUTIONS, AS WELL. SO MAKE SURE YOU USE POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT WITH APPROPRIATE [INDISCERNIBLE] BUT MAKE SURE YOU'RE DIRECT WITH WHAT THEY'RE DOING, AS WELL. MAKE SURE YOU TELL THEM THAT THEY'RE STILL CONTRIBUTING WHETHER OR NOT THEY AREN'T BECAUSE IT CREATES -- GIVES THEM THE ABILITY TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX, AS WELL, BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THAT THEIR VOICES ARE BEING HEARD, SO... >> THANKS, BUKKY, AND I THINK WITH THAT PART OF IT THAT IS THE APPROPRIATE FEEDBACK AND DIRECT FEEDBACK, YOU KNOW, WHILE THERE'S STILL POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW WE HAVE GRANT DELIVERABLES AND DEADLINES AND THINGS YOU STILL HAVE TO MEET BUS OF OUR GRANT, SO ENSURING THAT WE'RE VERY TRANSPARENT ABOUT WHAT EXACTLY WE NEED TO ACCOMPLISH BECAUSE OF THE GRANT WHILE ALSO INCLUDING THE YOUTH VOICES AND MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE -- IF SOMETHING IS NOT FITTING WELL, THAT YOU MAKE SURE WHY, RIGHT? A FULL EXPLANATION GIVEN ON WHY SOMETHING MAY OR MAY NOT WORK, SO -- BUT DEFINITELY ALSO ENCOURAGING THEM TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX AND GIVING US [INDISCERNIBLE] SO THANK YOU SO MUCH, BUKKY. 30 >> AND ONE PIECE FOR US IS SO I WOULD INVITE YOU TO MAYBE SPEND SOME TIME USING Dr. GOOGLE SEARCH TO LOOK FOR STANFORD UNIVERSITY HAS SOME VERY FREE AND AVAILABLE IMPLICIT BIAS TESTS THAT YOU CAN TAKE. THEY'RE ANONYMOUS AND COLLECTING DATA FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY SO YOU WOULD BE HELPING A RESEARCH PROJECT AND HAVING SOME INTROSPECTION INTO YOUR OWN IMPLICIT BIAS THAT HAVE COME UP IN BEING PART OF OUR COMMUNITY. >> YES, AND I BELIEVE WE WERE GOING TO LAUNCH A POLL QUESTION HERE, I THINK THIS WAS THE SLIDE WHERE WE WERE GOING TO ASK IF FOLKS WERE COMFORTABLE SHARING, YOU KNOW, IN THE POLL, WHEN YOUR LAST ACT OF AGEISM MIGHT HAVE BEEN THAT YOU DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE WAS AN ACT OF AGEISM BUT MAYBE THINKING BACK ON IT AND REALIZING THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED, SO IF YOU'RE COMFORTABLE ANSWERING THE QUESTION, TO GET A SENSE OF THAT. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH TO OUR MODERATORS WHO ARE HELPING US RUN THIS. >> OUR DEFINITION OF AGEISM IS LOOKING AT TALKING WITH YOUNG FOLKS, PEOPLE THAT ARE YOUNGER THAN YOU, OR OURSELVES, AND MAKING STATEMENTS THAT -- AND BELIEFS THAT THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN OR WHAT'S GOING ON BASED ON THEIR AGE. FOR EXAMPLE, I FOUND MYSELF JUST TWO DAYS AGO AT THE HIGH SCHOOL WHERE I COACH BOYS' BASKETBALL, TELLING 31 YOUNG MEN THAT THEY NEEDED TO TONE DOWN THEIR NEW SICK BECAUSE TRUE CHAMPIONS GET IT DONE WITH THEIR MINDS AND NOT WITH THEIR WORDS AND WHAT I WAS MODELING TO THEM WAS THEY DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO GO OUT AND COMPETE SO I WAS TELLING THEM THROUGH MY OWN LENS AND EXPERIENCE OF HOW THEY NEEDED TO OPERATE. SO AS A COACH, CAME WITH A LOT OF POWER, THAT I WAS PUTTING THEM DOWN, BASED ON THEIR LACK -- LIMITED EXPERIENCES AND I BELIEVED IN THE MOMENT THAT I WAS DOING RIGHT BUT STILL I WAS USING MY POWER TO PUT THEM DOWN AND NOT GIVE THEM THEIR FULL RANGE OF ABILITIES TO GROW. >> THANKS, JENNIFER, WE'RE GOING TO SHARE THE RESULT OF THE POLL NOW. SEE HOW PEOPLE RESPONDED, SO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HONEST INPUT TO THIS POLLING QUESTION, SO YOU CAN SEE HERE, IT LOOKS LIKE 14% ADMITTED TO WITHIN, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE DAYS, 8% ADMITTED TO ABOUT A WEEK AGO, 15% SAID ABOUT A MONTH AGO, 6% SAID WITHIN THE LAST SIX MONTHS SO YOU CAN SEE KIND OF HOW THAT SHAKES OUT. ALSO, THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR PUTTING YOURSELF OUT THERE. WE KNOW IT'S NOT AN EASY THING TO FACE BUT WE DEFINITELY, IF WE'RE GOING TO DO THE WORK, WE NEED TO BE A LITTLE BIT UNCOMFORTABLE IN FACING THOSE 32 UNCONSCIOUS BIASES THAT WE HAVE, SO WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND MOVE ALONG SO FANISEE, GO AHEAD AND START US OFF. SO A LOT OF THAT TIES INTO WHAT TYPE OF ENVIRONMENT WE'RE LOOKING FOR AND THE NEXT -- CREATING POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT AND OPPORTUNITIES. THAT ENVIRONMENT, WHAT WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE, IT'S PROVIDING A SAFER SPACE FOR -- AND MESSAGES AND CREATING THAT ENVIRONMENT FOR THE INTERGENERATIONAL COLLABORATIVE AND ALLOW YOUTH LEADERS TO MAKE CHOICES IN AS MANY WAYS AS POSSIBLE, GET THAT CREATIVE MIND GOING AND FLOWING. ALSO GIVES YOUTH LEADERS MORE THAN ONE CHOICE AND BE COMFORTABLE WITH EACH CHOICE YOU PROVIDE AND JUST LETTING THEM EXPRESS THEMSELVES, ACCEPTING IT AND JUST MAYBE GOING WITH IT BUT HAVING THAT ENVIRONMENT TO WHERE THEY CAN FEEL COMFORTABLE OR HAVING IT SAFER AND JUST MORE EXPRESSIVE SO YOU CAN GET MORE IDEAS PERFECTED. >> AS AN ORGANIZATION, ONE OF THE CHOICES WE MADE, PREVIOUSLY WE HAD BEEN PAYING STIPENDS FOR OUR YOUTH TO COME IN AND PROVIDE WORK AND INSTEAD WE BELIEVE THAT AN HOURLY SALARY IS NECESSARY SO IT SHOWS WE VALUE THEIR TIME AS PART-TIME STAFF, TO SHARE THEM AS VALUES. >> IF I COULD TIE INTO THAT, AS WELL. 33 WHAT THE COALITION, I BELIEVE, DOES AND WHAT WE WANT TO REPRESENT TO PROVIDE KEPT AIM SUPPORT AND -- OF THE YOUTH THAT ARE WORKING FOR YOU. FOR EXAMPLE, TRANSPORTATION COSTS FOR YOUTH FOR LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS, PROVIDING CHILD CARE FOR TEEN PARENTS, SOME OF THESE IDEAS GETTING INVOLVED AND FOR MANY YOUNG PEOPLE, THIS MAY BE THEIR FIRST EXPOSURE TO INCREASED CONSCIOUSNESS OF CONCEPTS LIKE SYSTEMS -- SYSTEMIC, SORRY, HISTORICAL OPPRESSION AND INTERSECTIONALITY. I DEFINITELY KNOW BEFORE COMING INTO THIS WORK, I DID NOT KNOW WHAT ALL THESE BIG AND IMPORTANT WORDS MEANT, LIKE INTERSECTIONALITY OR OPPRESSION, AND SO JUST BEING AWARE AND CREATING THAT ENVIRONMENT TO WHERE I DON'T -- I'M NOT LOOKED DOWN UPON FOR NOT KNOWING THESE WORDS BUT CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE I FEEL COMFORTABLE AND MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE WITH THE ENVIRONMENT THAT THEY'RE GIVING ME AND THE PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPRESSING THESE -- YOU KNOW, THIS KNOWLEDGE TO ME. IT JUST FEELS REALLY GREAT, REALLY GREAT FOR OUR YOUTH TO HAVE THAT INCREASED KNOWLEDGE AND AWARENESS. >> FOR THE SAKE OF FULL TRANSPARENCY, WE ARE RUNNING A LITTLE BEHIND ON OUR SLIDES SO WE'RE GOING TO RUN THROUGH THE NEXT TWO SLIDES MORE QUICKLY SO WE CAN GET TO THE MEAT OF SOME OF THIS DISCUSSION, SO WITH REGARDS 34 TO HOW TO ENGAGE YOUTH AND WHERE TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH, WE HAVE THE YOUTH ENGAGEMENT CONTINUUM. SO OUR END GOAL OBVIOUSLY IS YOUTH ORGANIZING BUT THERE ARE VARIOUS WAYS THAT WE CAN WORK WITH YOUTH TO GET THEM ENGAGED, SO CLEARLY YOUTH SERVICES THAT PROGRAMS CAN PROVIDE TO ASSURE YOUTH FROM HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES, FROM OUR TRIBAL COMMUNITIES, ARE ACCESSING SERVICES THAT ARE NEEDED, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS CRUCIAL WHILE ALSO PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT TO HAPPEN, SO HOW CAN WE HELP SHARPEN OUR LEADERSHIP SKILLS FOR YOUTH LEADERS TO GO INTO THEIR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES TO LEAD THE CONVERSATIONS AND CREATE SOCIAL CHANGE, AND WITH THAT IS YOUTH LEADERSHIP IS TIED DIRECTLY INTO THAT. AND THAT ALSO LEADS TO YOUTH CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, SO WE HAVE A LOT OF YOUTH TO GET INVOLVED WITH CIVICALLY ORIENTED GROUPS, FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE THE FUTURE HISPANIC LEADERS OF AMERICA WHICH WORKS A LOT WITH YOUTH TO ENSURE THAT THEY ARE NOT ONLY DEVELOP LEADERSHIP SKILLS BOAT THEY ARE GOING INTO THE COMMUNITY AND DOING THEIR WORK THERE, AS WELL, WHICH IS YOUTH ORGANIZING AT ITS CORES AND INVOLVES ALL THESE DIFFERENT STEPS, SO KEEP THAT IN MIND THAT THOUGH YOUTH 35 ORGANIZING IS THE ENDS GOAL, THERE'S ALL THESE DIFFERENT WAYS AND THE YOUTH GUIDE GOES INTO MORE DETAIL ON ALL OF THOSE. NEXT IS ALSO -- IT'S ALSO CRUCIAL TO CREATE A LEADERSHIP PATHWAY. OF, WHEN WE ENGAGE YOUTH, WE FORGET ABOUT YOUTH AFTER LIKE THE AGE OF 18 UP UNTIL THEY'RE IN THEIR MID 20s TO LATE 20s, AND THAT'S BECAUSE THERE ISN'T A REAL WAY TO KEEP YOUTH ENGAGED AT THAT POINT SO BY END CAGING THEM AT A YOUNGER AGE, WE'RE NOT ONLY DEVELOPING FUTURE LEADERS, ALSO DEVELOPING A PIPELINE OF SORTS FOR YOUTH TO CONTINUE TO STAY ENGAGED AND THEY KNOW WHAT ORGANIZATIONS THEY CAN GO TO AND THEY KNOW WHERE THEY CAN GO TO THAT IS GOING TO ALLOW THEM TO HAVE DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS. FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN A LOT OF THE THINGS HAPPENING WHERE CERTAIN COMMUNITIES ARE TARGETED, OUR YOUTH KNOW THAT THEY CAN COME HERE AND THEY CAN SHARE HOW THEY'RE FEELING AND THEY CAN BE VULNERABLE IN THIS SPACE BECAUSE IT'S A SAFE SPACE FOR THEM AND WE ARE UNDERSTANDING OF THAT AND WE ALLOW THEM TO SHARE THOSE FEELINGS, WHETHER IT IS SADNESS OR APING GEAR AND IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO PROVIDE THAT SPACE AND ALSO TO WORK WITH OUR YOUTH ORGANIZERS TO ENSURE THAT THOSE THOSE FEELINGS DON'T ENVELOPE THEM, EITHER, HOW CAN WE 36 WORK THROUGH THIS TOGETHER AND HOW CAN WE WORK THROUGH THIS TOWARDS THE END OF SOCIAL CHANGE FOR OUR COMMUNITY. SO THAT IS JUST A LIGHT TOUCH ON THAT BUT MOVING ON WITH THAT -- >> IN THAT SAME PIECE WHERE WE CREATE A SAFE PACE IN OUR OFFICE AND GATHERINGS AND WORKSHOPS, WE INVITE YOU ALL TO BE AWARE AND SUPPORT THE YOUTH THAT YOU ARE ENGAGING WITH. OFTENTIMES, THIS MAY BE THE FIRST EXPOSURE THEY HAVE TO DEFINITIONS, TERMINOLOGY THAT WE HAVE IN OUR MOVEMENT, TO REALLY PUT SORT OF SOME FACTS OR SOME CREDIBILITY BEHIND EXPERIENCES THEY'VE HAD OUT IN THE WORLD, SO BEING VERY TRANSPARENT ABOUT MANDATORY REPORTING AND YOUR ROLE AS AN ADULT IN WHAT MANDATORY REPORTING STEPS LOOK LIKE AND THE PROCESS IT IS. NOT TO SILENCE THE VOICE OF ANY DISCLOSURES OR THINGS THAT MAY COME UP BUT JUST TO BE TRANSPARENT AND INFORM YOUR YOUTH ABOUT WHAT NEEDS -- WOULD HAVE TO HAPPEN IF THEY SHARE ANYTHING THAT WOULD REGARD TO THE MANDATORY REPORTING LAWS IN THEIR STATE. AND AS JEN KIND OF MENTIONED, A SPACE TO EXPRESS YOURSELF AND WHATEVER EMOTIONS MAY COME, AND WE SEE OURSELVES AS MENTORS IN THAT PIECE WHICH STARTS WALKING THE LINE OF ADULTISM AT TIMES BUT AS MENTORS, OUR ROLE 37 IS TO LISTEN, TO ENCOURAGE THEIR FEELINGS AND HELP GUIDE THROUGH SOME OF THOSE EMOTIONS THAT MAY BE DESTRUCTIVE, SUCH AS ANGER AND RAGE. THOSE MOVE TOWARDS ANY PHYSICAL OR KIND OF COMMUNITY DANIEL, WE NEED TO REALLY BRING THAT BACK TO BE MORE COMMUNICATION THROUGH OUR WORDS AND ACTION AND JUST HOW WE SUPPORT OUR YOUTH IN THEIR OVERALL DEVELOPMENT AS WE GO FORWARD. >> SO, LEADING THAT DIRECTLY INTO ADULTISM AND POWER DYNAMICS, YOU KNOW, WE MENTIONED THAT SOMETIMES WE'RE ON THAT LINE, WHERE WHAT WE'RE DOING BEING ADULTIST OR NOT, AND WHEN WE'RE BEING ADULTIST, ARE WE DEVALUING OR NOT CENTERING YOUTH EXPERIENCES BECAUSE WE THINK WE KNOW MORE BECAUSE WE'RE OLDER OR WE'RE TELLING THEM NO BECAUSE OF WHATEVER REASON OR WE'RE NOT BEING FULLY TRANSPARENT WITH WHATEVER IS GONE OR NOT GIVING THEM FULL INFORMATION SO WE ARE ALWAYS MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE NOT ONLY CHECKING OURSELVES BUT THAT WE'RE COMFORTABLE ENOUGH TO CALL ONE ANOTHER IN AS STAFF IF WE NOTICE ADULTIST BEHAVIOR HAPPENING, AND ALSO OUR YOUTH ARE VERY EMPOWERED TO TELL US IF THEY THINK THAT WE'RE BEING ADULTIST. FOR EXAMPLE, ONE -- A PERFECT EXAMPLE WAS ACTUALLY DURING THIS WEBINAR, WE KNEW WE WANTED TO DO THIS AND SHARE, YOU KNOW, OUR EXPERIENCES AND WORKING WITH YOUTH 38 ORGANIZER AND WE DIDN'T EVEN CONSIDER THE TIME OF DAY THAT THIS WAS HAPPENING. AND WANT ONE OF OUR YOUTH ORGANIZERS, YOU KNOW, EMAILED US AND SAID THIS IS AWESOME, I REALLY WANT TO BE A PART OF THIS BUT CAN I ASK WHY WE'RE DOING THIS AT A TIME WE WERE ALL IN SCHOOL. WE WERE JUST LIKE, YEAH, DEFINITELY, YES, WE DID NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT THAT. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CALLING US IN ON THAT. SO WE'RE CONSTANTLY LEARNING, AS WELL, AND SO TO GIVE YOU A MORE DIRECT DEFINITION OF WHAT ADULTISM IS, IT'S THE RESTRICTING, PUTTING DOWN, CONTROLLING, HUMILIATING OR HURTING ANOTHER THAT YOUNG PEOPLE EXPERIENCE AT THE HANDS OF ADULTS, AND IT IS THE BELIEF THAT ADULTISM IS CONSIDERED THE TRAINING GROUND FOR ALL OPPRESSIONS, RIGHT. SO IF WE'RE BEING AS ADULTS OPPRESSIVE TO YOUTH ALREADY AT THIS POINT, THEN ALL OF THESE OTHER IMPRESSIONS ARE ALSO GOING TO HAPPEN BECAUSE YOUTH HAVE NOT BEEN EMPOWERED TO STAND UP OR CONTRADICT THESE SOCIAL NORMS AND WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND THROUGHOUT THE CONVERSATION SHARE SOME EXAMPLES OF THAT BUT I BELIEVE EARLIER WE WERE TALKING ABOUT CONSTANTLY SAYING NO AND NOT EVEN BEING OPEN TO IDEAS FROM YOUTH. THAT'S A CLEAR EXAMPLE OF ADULTISM, SO JUST KEEP THAT 39 IN MIND AS YOU DO THAT WORK, AND DON'T BE AFRAID OF CALLING IN TO HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS AND BEING RESPONSIVE WHEN SOMEONE IS -- LIKE A YOUNG PERSON IS TELLING YOU THIS IS SOMETHING THEY'RE FEELING, AS WELL. >> I'M GOING TO MOVE INTO THE SECOND PORTION OF THE OGR FACILITATOR'S GUIDE, TALKING ABOUT HOW TO BUILD THE CAPACITY WITHIN YOUR ORGANIZATION TO HAVE A TRULY INTERGENERATIONAL COLLABORATIVE MOVING FORWARD. KIND OF FOCUS ON THESE FIRST TWO BULLETS, FIRST ONE BEING CREATE A SHARED PURPOSE AND VISION TO WHAT YOU'RE WORKING TOWARD. PLAINLY, IF WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS, WE DON'T REALLY KNOW WHERE WE'LL NEED TO BE WHEN WE'RE THERE SO IT'S IMPORTANT AS AN INTERGENERATIONAL COLLECTIVE GOING TOWARD TO COME TOGETHER WITH A SHARED VISION AND PURPOSE IN WHAT YOU ARE ALL WORKING TOWARDS, TO KNOW ALSO WHAT YOU'RE WORKING AGAINST. AND TO GET TO THAT PLACE ALONG WITH THE IDEA OF SAFER SPACES, IT'S -- RELATIONSHIPS ARE CRITICAL AND SHOULD BE PUT AT THE FOREFRONT OF ANY OF THESE COLLABORATIVES GETTING STARTED, BUT THESE RELATIONSHIPS TAKE TIME AND INTENTIONAL EFFORTS AND ACTIVITIES FOR EVERYBODY TO PUT THAT SPACE THAT YOU CAN BUILD AND ENHANCE THE RELATIONSHIP MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER. >> AWE SOCIETY 40 AND THEN ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS AS YOU'RE STARTING TO CREATE YOUR COLLABORATIVE, YOU KNOW, WHO ARE YOU INVITING TO THE TABLE, INVITING YOUTH TO THE TABLE, INVITING FROM THE MARRIAGE NATURALIZED COMMUNITIES, SUCH AS IN IDAHO, WE HAVE A HANDFUL OF TRIBES HERE, WE MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE VERY INCLUSIVE OF THAT. WE ALSO HAVE LIKE I SAID UNDOCUMENTED POPULATION, REFUGEE POPULATION, IMMIGRANT POPULATION, SO BEING INTENTIONAL ABOUT THAT, WHO'S INVITED AND, YOU KNOW, SCHOOLS ARE OFTEN INVITED, AS WELL, BUT WE ALSO KNOW THAT IT CAN BE LIMITING SOMETIMES TO DO WORK WITHIN THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT, ESPECIALLY FOR US, OUR REALITY IS WORKING IN IDAHO SO WHAT OTHER ORGANIZATIONS ARE ALREADY DOING WORK WITH YOUTH THAT WE CAN ENGAGE IN OUR COLLABORATIVE. BUT WHEN YOU HAVE IDENTIFIED THOSE FOLKS, WHAT CAN YOU DO TOGETHER AND PART OF THAT IS FIGURING OUT WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW, THAT WAY YOU'RE NOT SPENDING TIME RECREATING THE WHEEL OR, YOU KNOW, GOING DOWN THE ROAD WHERE SOMEONE'S ALREADY BEEN THERE AND YOU CAN SHARE THAT INFORMATION AND THOSE RESOURCES AT THE VERY BEGINNING SO THAT AS A GROUP, YOU CAN FOCUS ON WHERE ARE THE GAPS OF WHERE WE NEED MORE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS AND FOCUS ON THOSE AREAS SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO 41 MAKE THE COLLABORATIVE STRONGER AND CONTINUE TO BUILD WHERE WE ACTUALLY NEED TO BUILD, SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO BE AWARE OF AS WE START TO DO THE WORK WITH YOUR COLLABORATIVE AND THE GUIDE GOES INTO WAY MORE DETAIL WITH SOME OF THOSE THINGS TO LOOK FOR AS YOU START TO BUILD YOUR COLLABORATIVE. AND WITH THAT, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT EVERYONE LEARNS DIFFERENTLY SO IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO PRACTICE DIFFERENT LEARNING STYLES IN YOUR COLLABORATIVE AND WITH YOUR YOUTH ORGANIZERS, AS WELL, SO PEOPLE LEARN VISUALLY OR ARE SPATIAL LEARNERS. WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO LEARN BETTER THROUGH AUDITORY OR MUSIC, VERBAL LEARNERS, PHYSICAL LEARNERS, LOGISTICAL LEARNERS, SOCIAL AND SOLITARY LEARNERS SO JUST BE AWARE THAT MIGHT NOT WORK FOR EVERYONE BUT HOW CAN WE MAKE SURE WE'RE GETTING THIS INFORMATION THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE TO EVERYONE IN THE COLLABORATIVE AND INCLUDING THE DIFFERENT MESSAGE AND THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING AND THE SKILL THAT YOU'RE BUILDING, SO JUST BE SURE THAT YOU'RE CONSIDERING THAT WHEN YOU'RE WORKING WITH YOUTH AND WITH YOUR COLLABORATIVE, AS WELL. SO WE'RE NOW JUMPING INTO STEP THREE WHICH IS A LOT OF THE MEAT OF THIS DISCUSSION, AND IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS AT ANY TIME, JUST PLEASE FEEL FREE TO TYPE THEM IN AND WE'LL GET TO THOSE BUT DESIGNING AND ACTIVATING THOSE 42 ACTUAL SOCIAL CHANGE STRATEGIES. SO THE FIRST PIECE IS COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGIES, SO WE TALKED ABOUT THE SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL MODEL SO A LOT OF STRATEGIES FOCUS ON THE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF THE MODEL, THE SOCIETAL LEVEL, THE COMMUNITIES LEVEL, THE RELATIONAL LEVEL AND THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL. SO YOU WANT TO CREATE A STRATEGY THAT IS COMPREHENSIVE AND OPERATES ON ALL LEVELS, JUST LIKE WE TALKED ABOUT WITH INTERSECTIONALITY, YOU CAN'T ONLY WORK ON ONE THING BECAUSE OF OUR WHOLE LIVED EXPERIENCE, WE HAVE TO INCLUDE EVERYONE'S IDENTITIES AND EVERYONE'S EXPERIENCES SO IT GOES WITH THE SOCIO ECOLOGICAL MODEL, WHERE WE HAVE TO DO WORK ON EVERY SINGLE LEVEL IN ORDER TO REALLY ENACT AND CREATE THE SOCIAL CHANGE THAT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS, WHICH IS PREVENTING GENDER VIOLENCE. SO WITH THAT, WHAT WOULD THING LOOK LIKE, A SOCIETAL LEVEL, THOSE ARE THINGS THAT HAPPEN ON A BROADER SOCIETAL SPECTRUM SUCH AS ENGAGEMENT AND ORGANIZING WORK. AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL, IT IS WHERE YOU'RE STRENGTHENING YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD OR YOUR COMMUNITY SETTINGS, SUCH AS SCHOOLS, AND DEVELOPING PROCESSES AND POLICIES THAT PROMOTE THOSE HEALTHY CONSTRUCT OF GENDER AND ANTI-OPPRESSION FRAMEWORK, SO THAT IS WHY WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE YOUTH ENGAGEMENT CONTINUUM. 43 THAT'S WHY THOSE LEADERSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT PIECES ARE SO IMPORTANT SO THAT THEY CAN GO INTO THE COMMUNITY AND DO THAT WORK. RELATIONAL LEVEL STRATEGIES COULD LOOK SOMETHING LIKE WORK THAT IMPACTS THE INDIVIDUAL'S PARENTS OR CARE-GIVERS, THEIR FELLOW PEERS IN WHATEVER SETTING THAT MAY BE WHETHER A SCHOOL OR HANGING OUT WITH FRIENDS OR THE YMCA, WHATEVER THAT LOOKS LIKE. AND OTHER PERSONAL, INTERPERSONAL CONNECTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS THAT THEY ARE EXPERIENCING, AND THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL, AS WELL, SO MAKING SURE WE'RE WORKING -- LIKE WE DO WORKSHOPS, OGR WORKSHOPS WHERE WE START TO CHALLENGE SOME OF THOSE NORMS AND LITERALLY HAVE FOLKS THINK ABOUT WHY DO I HAVE THESE CONSTRUCTS IN MY MIND OF WHAT GENDER LOOKS LIKE AND HOW CAN I CHALLENGE THAT. AND FOR US, WE HAVE REALLY GOTTEN TO THE POINT WHERE WE'RE FOCUSING AS A SOCIETAL AND COMMUNITY LEVEL OF STRATEGY, EVEN THOUGH WE STILL DO WORK AT THE RELATIONAL AND INDIVIDUAL LEVELS, BECAUSE WE FEEL LIKE A SOCIETAL LEVEL AND COMMUNITY LEVEL ARE THE BEST AND HIGHEST USE OF OUR TIME SO WE'RE MOVING BEYOND THE OTHER TWO LEVELS TO WHERE THE GROUP PROBLEMS OFTEN EXIST THAT PERPETUATE THESE -- THIS GENDER VIOLENCE AND ALSO GENDER NORMS AND WE DEFINITELY, LIKE JEFF 44 MENTIONED WAY EARLIER, WE STARTED OUT DOING A LOT OF THIS WITH THE HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS FOCUS BUT OFTEN THAT CAN FEEL LIKE OR, YOU KNOW, FEEDBACK WE'VE GOTTEN IS THAT IT FEELS LIKE IT SHIFT THE BURDEN TO THE INDIVIDUALS RATHER THAN THE GREATER SOCIETAL THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING THAT ARE ALLOWING THESE OPPRESSIONS TO CONTINUE THAT CAUSE EXPERIENCES IN AN INDIVIDUAL'S LIFE THAT HAS NOW PUT THEM IN A SITUATION WHERE THEY'RE EXPERIENCING A GENDER VIOLENCE. SO HOW CAN WE EVEN PREVENT THESE EXPERIENCE FROM HAVING AND THAT'S WHERE A LOT OF THE SOCIETAL AND COMMUNITY WORK HAPPENS, AND SOME OF THESE THINGS THAT PEOPLE ARE EXPERIENCING ARE THINGS LIKE SEXISM AND MISOGYNY AND RACISM AND OTHER VIOLENCE THAT HAS HAPPENED IN THEIR LIVES WHICH IS GOING TO OFTEN ALLOW FOR A SITUATION OF GENDER VIOLENCE TO OCCUR. SO WE'RE JUST TAKING ALL OF THAT, THE CONTEXT OF SOMEONE'S WHOLE EXPERIENCE INTO ACCOUNT WHICH IS WHY THOSE TWO SOCIETAL AND COMMUNITY LEVELS ARE WHERE A LOT OF OUR FOCUS IS AT THE MOMENT. >> AND IN TRYING TO BE MINDFUL OF REACHING THOSE OUTER LAYERS OF THE ECOLOGICAL MODEL, WE MENTIONED EARLIER ABOUT OUR VISION BUT WE ENCOURAGE YOU AND INVITE YOU TO FORM A BOLD VISION AS YOUR COLLABORATIVE GOES FORWARD, AND THE IDEA THAT SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WE AT THE 45 IDAHO COALITION HAVE BEEN UNDERGOING FOR THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF ALMOST, SO WE'VE BEEN WILLING TO INVEST THE TIME AND RESOURCES INTO LOOKING AT WHAT -- WHAT IS THE WORLD THAT WE WANT TO CREATE AND WHAT PATHWAYS AND STRATEGIES FOR OUR WORK WILL GET US CLOSER TO THAT DIRECTION. WE'VE ASKED OURSELVES QUESTIONS LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE ENVISION, AND WHAT IS OUR PURPOSE OR DISTINCT ROLE OF SERVICES IN THIS VISION AS A COLLABORATIVE MOVING FORWARD AND DOES OUR VISION INCORPORATE AND KEEP SOCIAL EQUITY FOR ALL PEOPLE, SO VERY PLAINLY, OUR COLLECTIVE -- OUR BOLD VISION AT THE IDAHO COALITION IS COLLECTIVE LIBERATION AND SOCIAL EQUITY FOR ALL. AND TO GET THERE, WE ARE GUIDED BY OUR NORTH STAR, WHICH IS REALLY THE LIBERATION FOR THE PERSON WITH THE LEAST, OR THE LAST GIRL IN OUR STATE OF IDAHO, SO ALL THIS FEEDS INTO THAT BOLD VISION OF WHERE WE NEED TO BE GOING AS A SOCIETY AND AS A COMMUNITY, AND ALL THE INTERGENERATIONAL WORK THAT WE HAVE GOING FORWARD. SO ONE OF THE LEVEL WAS SOCIETAL CHANGES, WHICH IS CHANGING SOCIETAL NORMS, VALUES AND ASSUMPTIONS, OF POWER AND POWERLESSNESS THAT CREATES A CULTURE OF DOMINATION, EXTRACTION AND VIOLENCE THAT WE ARE WORKING TO CHANGE. 46 SO WITH THAT, WHAT WOULD THAT LOOK LIKE? WHAT KIND OF STRATEGIES WOULD THIS INCLUDE? SO THIS CAN INCLUDE YOUTH ORGANIZING AS WE MENTIONED, TO ALTER THOSE POWER RELATIONSHIPS, WHICH IS WHY WE ARE SO CAUTIOUS OF CHECKING OUR OWN ADULTIST, MAYBE ADULTIST TENDENCIES OR ANY OTHER UNCONSCIOUS BIASES THAT WE HAVE SO WE CAN CREATE TRULY MEANINGFUL TEAMS, PROMOTING CAMPAIGNS TO CHANGE SOCIAL NORMS AND THE WAY THAT PEOPLE THINK ABOUT GENDER ROLES AND/OR VALUE-BASED CAMPAIGNS THAT PROMOTE EQUITY, LIBERATION AND OTHER VALUES, TO CREATE A WORLD THAT IS SUSTAINABLE. SO OUR GENDER CAMPAIGN SO WE HAVE A GUIDE AND WE HAVE A POSTER CAMPAIGN WHERE WE JUST GOT DONE ABOUT A WEEK AGO SENDING POSTERS AND MATERIALS TO EVERY SINGLE HIGH SCHOOL AND MIDDLE SCHOOL ACROSS THE STATE AND THAT WAS A HUGE ENDEAVOR, AND IT TOOK A LOT OF TIME BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE FEEL IS SO WORTH DOING, ESPECIALLY IN A STATE LIKE IDAHO WHERE IT'S VERY RURAL AND ACCESS TO RESOURCES IS NOT ALWAYS EASY OR ACCESS TO GET SOMETHING LIKE THAT WOULD REQUIRE A ONE-HOUR OR THREE-HOUR OR FIVE-HOUR DRIVE, SO WE TOOK IT UPON OURSELVES TO SEND ALL OF THIS AND WE HAVE DONE IT FOR MANY YEARS NOW, BUT WE SENDS THE INFORMATION DIRECTLY TO THE HIGH SCHOOLS AND WE FOLLOW UP WITH PHONE CALLS TO ENSURE THEY GOT IT OR DO THEY NEED MORE OR DO THEY HAVE QUESTIONS SO WE 47 CAN START TO MAKE SURE WE'RE CHANGING THE -- OR CHALLENGING THESE GENDER NORMS AS MUCH AS WE CAN, AND SOMETIMES WE DO GET PUSHBACK FROM SCHOOLS BUT, YOU KNOW, WE FEEL IT'S IMPORTANT TO DO THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING AND ALL OF THIS, AS YOU KNOW, GOES THROUGH A PROCESS OF OUR YOUTH, YOU KNOW, CONTRIBUTE TO IT AND STAFF CONTRIBUTES TO IT AND THEN WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, CONSULTANTS WHO LOOK AT IT AND THEY GO THROUGH THEIR OBW PROCESS, SO THERE'S ALL THESE LEVELS TO GO THROUGH AND IF WE NEED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THE SCHOOL, IT MIGHT NOT UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE DOING, WE DO THAT. SO IT'S A LOT OF RELATIONSHIP BUILDING, AS WELL, ON TOP OF MAKING SURE THOSE RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE AND OUR END GOAL IS ASSURING THAT WE'RE CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT FOR YOUTH TO THRIVE, SO IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT REDUCING THOSE PERCENTAGES OF YOUTH WHO ARE ENGAGING OR EXPERIENCING GENDER VIOLENCE, OR REDUCING THOSE NEGATIVE STATISTICS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, BUT TRULY CREATING A WORLD WHERE ALL YOUTH CAN THRIVE AND THAT IS CREATING SOCIETAL LEVEL CHANGES. >> AND ONE OF THOSE STRATEGIES THAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE TO HAVE JEN JOIN OUR STAFF IS AROUND THE IDEA OF YOUTH ORGANIZING. IN THE PAST, THE COALITION HAS REALLY FOCUSED MORE ON 48 THE IDEAS OF PRIMARY PREVENTION WHICH LENDS US DOWN MORE THAT INDIVIDUAL AND RELATIONAL MODEL FOR ALL THE STRATEGIES AND ENGAGEMENT THAT WE DID AROUND THE STATE WITH OUR YOUTH, SO FOR US, THIS IS A NEW PRACTICE OF YOUTH ORGANIZING AND WITHIN THE POWERS THAT ORGANIZING HAS, AND THE ABILITY TO MAKE SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGHOUT OUR STATE AND REP WILLING EFFECT OUT OF THE ECOLOGICAL MODELS TO SUSTAIN THE CHANGE SO THAT ENSURING THAT OUR BOLD VISION COMES THROUGH AND WE'RE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD AND EVERYBODY IS EQUITABLE AND SAFE. >> DEFINITELY. AND BY BRINGING OUR YOUTH ORGANIZERS INTO AN INTERGENERATIONAL MODEL, WHILE ALLOWING THEIR LEADERSHIP TO BE HARNESSED AND IMPLEMENTED SO WE'VE ALREADY SEEN THAT YOUTH HAVE LIKE THIS GREAT POWER SO WE'RE JUST DOING WHATEVER WE CAN TO HELP THAT GROW AND WORK INTERGENERATIONALLY. SO WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO GO ON TO THE NEXT SLIDE AND I WANT TO POINT OUT THAT ALL OF THE YOUTH HERE ON THE SLIDES ARE YOUTH FROM IDAHO WHO ARE ENGAGED IN SOME WAY IN THEIR COMMUNITY OR THEIR SCHOOLS HAIR THEY'RE WRITING, SOME ARE YOUTH ORGANIZERS, SOME ARE YOUTH WHO ARE INVOLVED IN SOCIAL JUSTICE CLUBS ON CAMPUS OR WHO JUST ARE FRIENDS WITH SOME OF THESE FOLKS AND REALLY WANTED TO BE ENGAGED SO THEY SHOWED UP AND ARE INVOLVED 49 IN THEIR COMMUNITIES SOMEHOW SO I WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT. SO YOUTH ORGANIZING AT THE SOCIETAL LEVEL IMPACT, SO THIS CREATES THE ABILITY FOR YOUTH CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TO OCCUR AND TO BE ABLE TO PROMOTE VALUES SUCH AS WHOLENESS AND TO DO IT ANTI-PRESENTS WORK SO SOME OF WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE IS BEING ABLE TO CONFRONT RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION AND ITS ROLE IN CREATING THAT DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT ON PEOPLE OF COLOR, WOMEN OF COLOR, GIRLS OF COLOR, GENDER, NON-CONFORM PEOPLE OF COLOR BECAUSE WE KNOW THEY'RE EXPERIENCING GENDER VIOLENCE AT A HIGHER RATE SO THAT'S A PIECE OF THAT WORK. ALSO CONNECTING YOUTH ISSUES TO BROADER COMMUNITY ISSUES, OFTEN WHEN YOU SEE YOUTH WORK HAPPENING, IT'S ISOLATED OR IN A SILO THAT YOUTH WORK IS YOUTH WORK AND DOESN'T IMPACT ALL THIS OTHER STUFF WHEN IN REALITY YOUTH ARE IMPACTED BY EVERYTHING -- WHETHER IT'S POLICY OR WHATEVER IT IS, MAKING SURE THAT CONNECTION IS MADE, THAT YOUTH ARE NOT LIVING IN ISOLATION BUT ARE TRULY INTERCONNECTED TO ALL THE OTHER THINGS HAPPENING IN OUR WORLD AND COMMUNITY. AND THROUGH YOUTH ORGANIZING, YOUNG PEOPLE CAN BUILD AND EXERCISE THEIR INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'VE DEFINITELY SEEN WITH OUR 50 YOUTH ORGANIZERS AND IT'S AWESOME TO SEE, NOT JUST THE WORK THEY'RE DOING COLLECTIVELY HERE AT THE COALITION BUT THE WORK THAT THEY ARE DOING AND LEADERSHIP THAT THEY'RE PROVIDING IN THEIR SCHOOLS AND THEIR COMMUNITY. IT'S TRULY WONDERFUL TO SEE THAT. STRENGTHENING SELF-CONFIDENCE AND DEVELOPING TANGIBLE SKILLS THEY COULD USE, NOT JUST IN YOUTH ORGANIZING BUT THAT TRANSLATE TO OTHER WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING IN SCHOOL OR AS THEY CONTINUE ON AFTER HIGH SCHOOL AND TO THE WORLD, THINGS THAT REALLY ARE AVAILABLE FOR THEM. DEVELOPING AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW TO NAVIGATE, LIKE, POLITICAL PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS THAT OF IS WHERE THE DECISIONS ARE MADE, THAT IMPACT, YOU KNOW, OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THEIR SCHOOLS AND IN THEIR COMMUNITIES, AND REALLY PROVIDING JUST AGENCY FOR YOUTH TO LIVE TO THEIR FULL CAPACITY AND PROVIDE AS MUCH SUPPORT AS WE CAN SO THAT, YOU KNOW, WE -- BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE AROUND TO DO THE WORK FOREVER AND WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO RELEASE SOME OF THAT POWER TO EMPOWER OUR YOUTH, AS WELL. >> AND PICKING UP AT THAT COMMUNITY LEVEL, FROM THE COMMUNITY LEVEL IMPACT ON THE ECOLOGICAL MODEL, WE'VE BEEN BENEFICIAL -- BENEFITING FROM JUST ASKING YOUTH IN NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES OF WHERE DO THEY GO AFTER SCHOOL, BEFORE SCHOOL, WHERE DO THEY GET MEALS, WHERE 51 DO THEY HANG OUT, WHAT STORES NECESSITY GET AT AND SHARE TIME AT BECAUSE THOSE ORGANIZATIONS -- THOSE COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS AND MARKETS AND STORES HAVE BEEN GOOD PARTNERS FOR US TO DISPLAY SOME OF THE SOCIAL CHANGE POSTER CAMPAIGNS AND STICKERS THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO PRODUCE, AND GET OUT SO WE HAVE BENEFITED BY HAVING OUR YOUTH AND SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES WITH US SO AT THAT COMMUNITY LEVEL, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO GET BEYOND JUST SCHOOLS AND MORE INTO THE NEIGHBORHOODS TO HELP IMPROVE AND AFFECT THAT SOCIAL CLIMATE AND HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH BUSINESSES TO LOOK AT SOME OF THEIR HIRING POLICIES THAT CAN MAYBE MAKE IT MORE FRIENDLY TO HIRE SOME OF THE YOUTH FROM THAT COMMUNITY TO BE EMPLOYEES AND TO BE MEMBERS OF THEIR WORKFORCE. >> AND ALONG WITH THAT, LIKE THERE ARE SOME PRACTICAL PROCEDURES WHEN IT COMES TO YOUTH ORGANIZING, SO THERE ARE SOME QUESTIONS THAT WE CONSIDER AND THAT WE WOULD ENCOURAGE ALL OF YOU TO CONSIDER, AS WELL, WHEN YOU'RE STARTING TO DO THIS TYPE OF WORK, IF THIS IS THE PATH YOU CHOOSE TO GO ON, AND IT'S WHICH GROUP AGREEMENTS WILL YOU INCORPORATE TO REFLECT RESPECT AND SUPPORT AN EFFECTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT, SO TAKING A LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, CAN YOU COME UP WITH COMMUNITY AND/OR GROUP ENVIRONMENTS TO ALLOW THAT ENVIRONMENT TO BE CULTIVATED, HOW MIGHT RESPECT BE 52 ADDRESSED WITH RESPECT -- EXPRESSED BY YOUTH WITH VARIOUS CULTURAL VALUES, TAKING THEIR FULL LIVED EXPERIENCE INTO ACCOUNT AND HOW DO YOU GREET AGREEMENTS AROUND THAT. YOU KNOW, WHAT UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES AND ADDITIONAL PRESSURES MIGHT ARISE WHEN CREATING BLUEPRINTS TO CREATE CHANGE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY, AND I BELIEVE WE HAD AN EXAMPLE OF THAT, SO -- SORRY, I CAN'T READ MY OWN HANDWRITING RIGHT NOW, SO... >> THAT EXAMPLE WAS ACTUALLY BASED KIND OF IN MY ERROR. WE WERE LOOKING AT DOING A NEW PROJECT AND ENGAGING PARTICULARLY YOUNG MEN FROM A SPECIFIC COMMUNITY AND WE WERE INVESTING TIME AND OUR KNOWLEDGE AND YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, AND WHAT WE REALIZED VERY LATE IN THE PROCESS IS THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY YOUNG MEN FROM THAT COMMUNITY INFORMING US, GUIDING US AND PROVIDING THEIR REALITIES WITH -- OF WHAT THE [INDISCERNIBLE] ARE SO OUR PROJECT IN A SENSE WAS VERY HOLLOW, BASED ON OUR OWN ADULT VIEW AND NOT ANYTHING FROM THE LEADERSHIP AND EXPERTISE OF THESE YOUNG MEN WHO WERE ON THE GROUNDS, LIVING IN THEIR WORLD ON A DAILY -- SO THAT'S ONE OF THE PIECES WE HAVE CONTINUED TO NEED TO BE AWARE OF AND MOVING FORWARD WITH ENGAGING OUR YOUTH-AND ANOTHER THING IS HOSTING OUR MEETINGS OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL, AND WHEN WE DO GATHER, WE ALWAYS MAKE SURE WE HAVE FOOD, 53 AND IT MAY BE THE JAPANESE HERITAGE IN ME BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY IS WALKING AWAY WITH EXTRA FOOD TO GO BACK AND MAKE SURE THEY HAVE BREAKFAST OR LUNCH FOR THE NEXT DAY SO THOSE TIMES OF WHEN WE GATHER AND HAVING FOOD PRESENT FROM WHEN WE DO GATHER NOT ONLY TO ME SHOWS A SIGN OF RESPECT FOR THE EXPERTISE THAT WE'RE GARNERING AND GETTING BUT ALSO PROVIDES THAT RELATIONSHIP TO GO BACK AND FORTH THAT I'M MORE COMFORTABLE SHARING IDEAS AND EVERYTHING ELSE WHEN I HAVE A FULL BELLY. >> FOOD IS ALL THE A GOOD THING. [Laughter] SO YOUTH ORGANIZING WITH THE RELATIONAL AND INDIVIDUAL LEVEL IMPACTS, SO THIS GOES BACK TO STRENGTHENING THOSE RELATIONSHIPS, THOSE INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER PARENTS, DEVELOPING, STRENGTHENING BYSTANDER SKILLS AND STRENGTHENING MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH ENGAGEMENT SO WHATEVER THAT MIGHT LOOK LIKE TO INTERRUPT GENDER VIOLENCE, BY VALUING CIS AND TRANS GIRLS AND OTHERS WHO ARE GENDER NON-CONFORMING, ENGAGING THE SKILLS OF A WHOLE GENDER AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING SKILLS WITH GENDER ANALYSIS, BYSTANDER SKILLS AS WELL AS ANTI-OPPRESSION HIM AND SKILLS TO INTERRUPT OUR... 54 [ Indiscernible ] SO THAT MIGHT LOOK LIKE BUILDING THAT COLLABORATION AND COHESION FOR ADULTS THAT INTERGENERATIONAL PARTNERSHIP, BUILDING COLLECTIVE PURPOSE AMONG YOUTH AND ADULTS AND USE BEING ABLE TO CREATE THIS INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNITY THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. AND PART OF THAT IS THE SOCIAL NORMS CAMPAIGN AND SOCIAL ACTIVISM. >> SO, AND THE IDEAS OF THAT NORMS WORK STARTED JUST TALKING ABOUT GENDER VIOLENCE AND MAKE THAT POINT AGAIN, GENDER VIOLENCE INTERSECTS WITH SO MANY SYSTEMIC OPPRESSIONS THAT WE NEED TO TAKE THAT APPROACH AND PERSPECTIVE THAT WHEN IT COMES TO MAKING REAL AND CONCRETE SOCIAL CHANGE IN OUR COMMUNITY, WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO DO POSITIVE SOCIAL NORM CAMPAIGN AS A STRATEGY TO INCREASE AND CREATE THE NEW SOCIAL NORMS THAT WE WANT TO FILL THE VOID WITH. WE CAN TALK A LOT ABOUT FRAMING THE PROBLEM, IF YOU SEE THAT PROBLEM AS A VORTEX, WHAT ARE WE FILLING IN AND HOW ARE WE MAKING THAT CHANGE BUT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS, WHICH BRINGS US BACK TO OUR BOLD VISION, WE ALSO KNOW THAT WE REALIZE AS JEN SAID, WE'RE TUTORING AND MENTORING THESE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS AND PEOPLE TOO TO TAKE ON THIS SOCIAL JUSTICE WORK THAT WE'RE ON NOW AND IN BUILDING UP THEIR SKILLS, WE ALSO 55 NEED TO INFORM THEM AND REALIZE THAT SOCIAL NORMS CHANGE IS SLOW AND AN ONGOING PROCESS BUT WE KNOW THAT WE CAN ACHIEVE IT BECAUSE WITH THESE CHANGES WOULD BE MONUMENTALLY IMPACTFUL. SO WHEN THE POST TV SOCIAL NORMS CAMPAIGNS THAT WE'VE PRODUCED, ENGAGING YOUTH NOT ONLY IN THE SCHOOLS BUT ALSO IN THE COMMUNITY, WE'RE SPECIFIC TO ENGAGE INDIVIDUALS IN OUR WORKSHOPS AND INVITE FOLKS TO WORKSHOPS AND FOCUS GROUPINGS, THAT HAVE A LOT OF SOCIAL CAPITAL AND HAVE THE INFLUENCE TO USE THEIR SOCIAL INFLUENCE, TO CHANGE THOSE SOCIAL NORMS THROUGH THE LANGUAGE, THROUGH THEIR ACTIONS AND BELIEFS ON THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL BUT THAT HELPS IMPACT THE RELATIONAL LEVEL WHICH CARRIES OVER TO THE NEXT LEVEL IN THE ECOLOGICAL MODEL AND MAKING THAT CHANGE VERY CONCRETE AND SOCIAL NORMS, SO SOMETIMES THAT ROLLS OUT, ALSO, WITH MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE REALLY EMPOWERING THE YOUNG PEOPLE THAT ARE INVOLVED NOT ONLY IN THE DEVELOPMENT BUT THE LEADERSHIP AND THEIR IDEAS AS A CAMPAIGN HAVE BEEN ROLLED OUT AND KEEPING YOUTH INITIATED AND DEVELOPING THE MESSAGING, THE IMAGING AND ALL THE PHOTOS AND WITH ALL OF OUR SLIDES, JEN MENTIONED, THESE ARE YOUTH WHO ARE FROM OUR COMMUNITY THAT ARE ON THE POSTER, BUT EVEN THINGS LIKE THE TEXT AND THE LINES, THE STRIPES IN THE BACKGROUND, WE WERE INFORMED THAT 56 FEELS LIKE IT'S A SHINING OUT AND BREAKING OUT OF OLD CHAINS AND HOPES FOR NEW, SO I CLEARLY GLAZED OVER THOSE AND SAW THEM AS LINES BUT FOR OUR EXPERTS AND OUR YOUTH, THEY SAW THEM AS VERY SYMBOLIC IN HOW THIS CAMPAIGN CAN BE ROLLED OUT. >> YEAH, THEY WERE VERY INSTRUMENTAL IN GIVING US FEEDBACK ON WHAT EVEN THE LOOK OF THE CAMPAIGN IS AND THE FEEL OF IT IS SO ALL OF THIS IS CENTERED ON AND DRIVEN BY OUR YOUTH ORGANIZERS AND YOUTH THAT ARE ENGAGED IN OUR NETWORK HERE AT THE COALITION. AND THAT'S BECAUSE WE TRULY BELIEVE THAT IT NEEDS TO BE YOUTH LED SO WE ACTIVELY ENGAGE THEM IN EVERY SINGLE WAY IN EVERY POSSIBLE MANNER THAT WE CAN AND REALIZING ALSO THAT THE SOCIAL NORM CAMPAIGNS THAT WE'RE LEADING NEED TO RESONATE WITH YOUR YOUTH ORGANIZERS, YOU KNOW, AND MEMBERS OF YOUR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY AND COLLABORATING OR IDENTIFYING ORGANIZATIONS THAT YOU CAN COLLABORATE WITH THAT HAVE ALREADY ESTABLISHED TIES WITH THE COMMUNITY. YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T WANT TO STEP INTO SOMETHING WHEN THERE'S ALREADY AN ORGANIZATION DOING THAT WORK WHEN THE MOST EFFICIENT THING YOU CAN DO IS TO START TO BUILD THAT RELATIONSHIP WITH THAT OTHER ORGANIZATION OR THOSE COMMUNITY LEADERS WHO ARE ALREADY TIED SO THAT YOU CAN MOVE A LITTLE BIT MORE QUICKLY THROUGH AN 57 ALREADY KIND OF SLOW PROCESS OF CREATING SOCIAL CHANGE AND IT'S A REALLY GREAT WAY TO SHARE LEADERSHIP, TO SHOW PARTNERSHIP AND HOW THAT CAN LOOK LIKE TO YOUR YOUTH ORGANIZERS AND EFFECTIVELY TARGET THE COMMUNITIES THAT YOU'RE WORKING WITH, AND I MENTIONED I'M SUPER PROUD OF THE WORK OUR ORGANIZERS ARE DOING AND I WANT TO PASS IT BACK TO THEM RIGHT NOW TO PROVIDE SOME EXAMPLES OF ORGANIZING THAT THEY'RE DOING, NOT NECESSARILY HERE AT THE COALITION BUT THEY'RE DOING MAYBE IN THEIR SCHOOLS OR COMMUNITY AND THAT IS, YOU KNOW, DRIVEN AND SUPPORTED BY ALL OF US HERE, SO FANISEE, BUKKY, WHOEVER WANTS TO HOP ON FIRST, I'M GOING TO SEND IT BACK TO YOU SO THAT YOU CAN GIVE US SOME EXAMPLES OF THE AWESOME WORK YOU'RE DOING. >> THANK YOU, JEN, I THINK I'M GOING TO HOP ON THIS EXAMPLE KIND OF LIKE TOPIC, GIVING YOU AN EXAMPLE JUST BECAUSE THIS MEANS SO MUCH TO ME TO EITHER PROGRESS OR DISRUPT THESE SOCIAL NORMS. AS SOCIAL ACTIVISM AND I TRY TO BE AN ADVOCATE AND ACTIVIST AS MUCH AS I CAN AND JUST RECENTLY, ACTUALLY IN PROGRESS RIGHT NOW, I GO TO CAPITAL HIGH SCHOOL IN BOISE, I AM CREATING AND BRINGING OVER A PROJECT CALLED GENDER EQUITY. SO WHAT I TALK ABOUT AND WHAT I EXPRESS IS THE SOCIAL NORMS OF GENDER AND DISRUPTING THOSE NORMS AND THAT 58 MALE AND FEMALE [INDISCERNIBLE] BINARY AND GIVING MORE INFORMATION AND AWARENESS TO GENDER NON-COME FOR THE TEE AND IDENTITIES AND MAYBE IMPLEMENTING ALL GENDER BATHROOM WITHIN MY SCHOOL. WE HAVE NUMEROUS AMOUNT OF BATHROOMS HERE AT MY HIGH SCHOOL SO I WANT TO SEE IF WE CAN BECOME MORE INCLUSIVE, MORE PROGRESSIVE AND STREET THAT SAFER SPACE FOR THE LGBTQ COMMUNITIES, OR GENDER NON-CONFORM, ANYBODY WHO FEELS WELCOME IN AN ALL-GENDER BATHROOM. SO THAT'S A COMMUNITY AND SCHOOL PROJECT THAT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON AND PUSHING TOWARDS. I'VE TALKED WITH MY -- THE THE INTERGENERATIONAL COLLABORATIVE AND -- GOING TO DISTRICTS TO TALK WITH MORE ADULTS AND PARENTS AND JUST GETTING MY COMMUNITY INVOLVED AND GETTING SURVEYS AND JUST AS MUCH INFORMATION AS I CAN OUT THERE TO THE PEOPLE OF MY SCHOOL TO SEE HOW THAT RESONATES WITH THEM. LET THEM KNOW THE FUTURE AND WHAT'S COMING AND ALL OF THIS CONTENT AND LIKE IN THIS SLIDE, JUST TALKING ABOUT SOCIAL NORMS, GENDER HAS BEEN A VERY HOT TOPIC AND A VERY CRUCIAL ONE WITHIN -- WITHIN MY PROJECT SO THAT'S JUST ONE OF THE PROJECTS THAT I'M TRYING TO DO TO UPLIFT MY SCHOOL AND MY COMMUNITY WHICH I'M REALLY PROUD OF AND I WANT TO GET AS MUCH COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AS I CAN AS A YOUTH, FROM YOUTH AND FROM 59 ADULTS. THANK YOU, JEN. >> THANK YOU, JEN. [Overlapping Conversation] >> NO, GO BACK TO YOU, GO FOR IT, BUKKY. >> OH, COOL. THANK YOU, JEN AND THANK YOU, FANISEE, AS WELL. TOTALLY, I BELIEVE BESIDES WORKING AT THE COALITION, I ALSO LIKE FANISEE, I'M A DEBATER AT MY SCHOOL SO WITH THAT, I TAKE EVERY INSTANCE THAT I CAN IN, I GUESS, IN THAT SPACE TO -- ESPECIALLY [INDISCERNIBLE] WE ARE TALKING ABOUT SEVERAL DIFFERENT TOPIC AND WAYS THAT WE CAN CREATE SOLUTIONS. I REMEMBER ONE IN PARTICULAR, IT WAS APPROXIMATELY LIKE A YEAR AGO WHERE AT ONE OF OUR DEBATE TOURNAMENTS, THIS WAS DURING THE TIME OF A VERY, VERY BIG, WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE YOUNG GIRL WHO WAS THROWN ACROSS THE CLASSROOM BY HER SAFETY SCHOOL OFFICER AND [INDISCERNIBLE] SITUATION AND INCIDENT. I REMEMBER THE COALITION RIGHT AWAY, THEY CALLED THE YOUTH AND WAS JUST LIKE WHAT CAN WE DO TO SUPPORT YOU AND WE WERE GIVING UP -- WE WERE GIVING SOME IDEAS AND ONE INCLUDED CREATING A BUTTON THAT SAID "BLACK GIRLS 60 MATTER. I DEFINITELY RESONATED WITH THAT BUTTON AND PARTICIPATED BECAUSE I AM A BLACK FEMALE AND SO I TOOK THAT BUTTON AND I RAN WITH IT. I TOOK IT -- I WORE THAT BUTTON EVERYWHERE I WENT, ESPECIALLY TO OUR DEBATE TOURNAMENT. SOONER OR LATER, INDIVIDUALS WERE ASKING ME WHERE I GOT IT, IF THEY COULD HAVE ONE SO ONE DAY I TOOK A WHOLE BAG OF THEM TO ONE OF MY TOURNAMENTS AND I GAVE THEM TO SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS AND PEOPLE ASKED ME AND I GAVE IT TO THEM AND BEFORE YOU KNEW IT, YOU HAD THE WIDEST AND MOST OUT OF NOWHERE, THE PEOPLE WHO WERE -- YOU WOULD IDENTIFY AS, I GUESS, THE TOP OF THE HIERARCHY WEARING THESE BLACK GIRLS MATTERS FRIENDS UNDERSTANDING THE PUC OF AMERICA BECAUSE YOU SAW THEM WEARING THEM TO THEIR ROUNDS AND YOU HAD PEOPLE ASKING AND IT BECAME THIS MOVEMENT, JUST EDUCATING EACH OTHER ON THESE SPECIFIC ISSUES THAT INVOLVE -- THAT TARGET MINORITY COMMUNITIES AND I FELT INCREDIBLY LIKE I FELT POWERFUL BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT I WAS SO -- I REALIZED THE POWER OF YOUTH AND HOW MUCH YOU CAN JUST -- IF YOU LET US CONNECT, THERE IS SO MUCH THAT CAN BE DONE. THERE IS A LOT OF ENGINEER TIPS THAT CAN BE TAKEN AND THE FACT THAT THE COALITION PROVIDED ME WITH THOSE BUTTONS TO CREATE THAT SPARK THAT ALLOWED US YOUTH TO 61 COME TOGETHER AND TALK AND UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER AND CREATE A COMMUNITY WHERE I JUST FELT -- I COULD FEEL MYSELF BEING VALUED BY MY PEERS AND ESPECIALLY IN THE SITUATION WHERE THERE WAS A VERY HOSTILE, I GUESS, IT WAS VERY HOSTILE THE SITUATION IN THAT CONTEXT BECAUSE I HAD A LOT OF SITUATIONS INVOLVING BLACK LIVES MATTER GOING AROUND AND A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE GETTING THE BAD CONNECTATION OF THE MOVEMENT, MADE ME FEEL AMAZING TO BE ABLE TO CORRECT THE FALSE NARRATIVE BEHIND THAT MOVEMENT AND THE FACT THAT THE COALITION PROVIDED ME THOSE RESOURCES MADE IT EVEN BETTER BECAUSE I FELT LIKE THEY MADE ME FEEL LIKE I WAS VALUED. AND THEN I WENT TO A SPACE WHERE USUALLY I DON'T FEEL SO VALUED AND IT WAS EVEN THEN LIKE I FELT EACH MORE VALUED, IT WAS AMAZING. >> AWESOME. THANKS SO MUCH, BUKKY, FOR SHARING THAT. AS YOU CAN SEE, OUR YOUTH ARE SUPER ENGAGED IN THEIR COMMUNITY ALREADY SO IT'S AMAZING TO SEE THE CHANGE THEY'RE ALREADY CREATING. I'M GOING TO MOVE THROUGH THE NEXT PICTURES REALLY QUICKLY. THESE ARE THE TWO YOUTH ORGANIZERS THAT WE HAD WHO LED THE WOMAN'S MARCH HERE IN BOISE, AND WE [INDISCERNIBLE] ORGANIZERS WERE INTEGRAL IN THAT. 62 WE ALSO HAVE [INDISCERNIBLE] IS A MEMBER OF ONE OF OUR TRIBES HERE IN IDAHO HO AND SHE DROVE DOWN SPECIFICALLY TO PROVIDE THE OPENING INVOCATION FOR THIS BECAUSE BOISE IS LOCATED ON ANCESTRAL NATIVE LAND AND WE FELT IT WAS SO IMPORTANT TO ENSURE THAT WAS SENTED IN THIS PIECE IN THE MARCH. JUST OUR STAFF, AND BUKKY ACTUALLY INTRODUCED ROXANNE GAY, SHE'S WRITTEN BOOKS LIKE "BAD FEMINIST," SHE WAS HERE AND KELLY WAS THE ONE, OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WAS THE ONE WHO WAS ASKED TO INTRODUCE HER AND KELLY, YOU KNOW, MADE A POINT OF GIVING UP THAT POSITION OF POWER TO EMPOWER BUKKY AND EMPOWER OUR YOUTH TO BE ABLE TO TAKE THAT ROLE ON SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO BE VERY CONSCIOUS OF. WE DID A FREE BRUSH ON MEADOWS CAMPAIGN THAT WAS A DAY OF ACT AND AS YOU CAN SEE, WE HAD YOUTH FROM ALL OVER BOISE COME TOGETHER AND THEY DREW A MURAL FOR HER IN OUR PARKING LOT SO THAT WAS AMAZING TO SEE THEM COME TOGETHER FOR THAT. WE HAVE LYNN ROSENTHAL HERE, THE FIRST WHITE HOUSE ADVISOR IN THE OFFICE OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND OUR YOUTH ORGANIZERS HERE WERE ABLE TO MEET HER AND WE REALLY JUST WANTED TO PROVIDE THOSE OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR YOUTH ORGANIZERS AND WE HAD GLORIA STEINEM HERE AND WE COULDN'T HAVE TAKEN BOARD MEMBERS TO THIS EVENT AND 63 INSTEAD KELLY ENSURED WE WERE FOCUSING ON AND CENTERING YOUNG PEOPLE AND YOUNG WOMEN OF COLOR TO COME AND MEET GLORIA STEINEM, IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT WE DO THAT AND WE WERE PRESENT AT OUR BLACK LIVES MATTER RALLY IN ENSURING THAT THEY KNOW WE STAND WITH THEM AND WITH OUR CAMPAIGN, THE POSTER CAMPAIGN, WE INTENTIONALLY OVER-REPRESENTED GIRLS, YOUNG WOMEN, PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT ETHNICITIES AND RACES AND WE CENTERED ALSO ON A MEMBER OF OUR MUSLIM YOUTH THAT WE HAVE ACTIVE HERE AT THE COALITION BECAUSE OF ALL OF THE ANTI-MUSLIM SENTIMENT GOING ON AND THERE IS AN IDEA THAT RURAL IDAHO IS WHITE, BUT REALLY IT'S NOT, THERE'S SO MUCH DIVERSITY THERE SO WE MADE A CONSCIOUS DECISION TO OVER-REPRESENT YOUNG GIRLS, YOUNG GENDER NON-CONFORMING COMMUNITIES IN ALL OF OUR WORK THAT WE DO SO YOU CAN GET ALL OF THIS ON OUR WEBSITE. AND THIS HAPPENED, THIS PICTURE, FROM US PRACTICING SELF CARE AND PHYSICAL PRACTICE ON NOVEMBER 8th. WE ALL NEEDED A SAFE SPACE TO KIND OF TALK AND WE DID IT AND TAKING CARE OF OURSELVES, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE JUST TO HAVE DO AS WE CONTINUE TO DO THIS WORK. AND WITH THAT, I DON'T THINK THERE IS A LOT OF TIME FOR QUESTIONS. WE REALLY PUSHED THROUGH THAT SO I APOLOGIZE FOR THE TIME THAT WE TOOK BUT IF THERE ARE QUESTIONS, PLEASE 64 FEEL FREE TO ASK THEM OF US NOW AND WE ALSO HAVE OUR CONTACT INFORMATION UP THERE, SO WITH THAT, I'LL LEAVE IT OPEN. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, JENNIFER AND I AM SO GLAD THAT YOU USED EVERY POSSIBLE MINUTE. PEOPLE HAVE BEEN VERY ACTIVE IN THE TEXT CHAT AND KELLY MILLER HAS BEEN VERY QUIETLY AND THOUGHTFULLY RESPONDING TO THE EXCELLENT QUESTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN POSED SO I WANT TO THANK KELLY FOR DOING THAT. I AM SO GRATEFUL TO ALL OF OUR PRESENTERS TODAY. THANKS FOR SHARING SO OPENLY AND HONESTLY ABOUT YOUR AMAZING WORK, SO I WANT TO THANK YOU, JENNIFER AND JEFF AND FANISEE AND BUKKY, YOU'RE JUST AN INSPIRATION TO ALL OF US. AS PARTICIPANTS IN TODAY'S SITUATION SESSION, I WANT TO REMIND YOU TO REMIND YOU THAT YOU'LL RECEIVE A FOLLOW-UP EMAIL WITH THE TEXT CHAT SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE THE RESOURCES THAT HAVE BEEN OFFERED THERE AND THE ADVICE. YOU'LL ALSO RECEIVE THE RECORDING RECORDING FROM THE INITIATIVE AND FROM THE WE CHOOSE CAMPAIGN. YOU'LL ALSO RECEIVED THE CLOSED CAPTIONING TRANSCRIPT. I DO WANT TO OFFER A VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR CAPTIONER FOR HELPING TO CREATE A MORE ACCESSIBLE LEARNING EXPERIENCE FORS THIS AFTERNOON. 65 SHE'S HAD QUITE A JOB KEEPING UP WITH ALL OF US. I DO WANT TO ALSO THANK THE NRCDV STAFF WHO HAVE BEEN WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES TO BRING YOU THIS SESSION, SO THANK YOU, IVONNE, JUSTINE, PATTY AND BRECKEN. WE ENCOURAGE ALL OF YOU TO CONTINUE TO LEARN WITH US AND ENGAGE WITH US THROUGHOUT TEEN DATING VIOLENCE AWARENESS AND PREVENTION MONTH. OUR #THIS IS DV CAMPAIGN ELEVATES THE VOICES OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO EXPERIENCE DATING VIOLENCE TO HELP SHED LIGHT ON ITS DYNAMICS AND TO OFFER RESOURCES TO LEARN MORE. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR ACTIVE PARTICIPATION TODAY. PLEASE BE SURE TO RESPONDS TO OUR BRIEF SURVEY UPON LOGGING OUT BECAUSE, REALLY, YOUR INPUT IS WHAT DRIVES OUR WORK. IT'S BEEN AN ABSOLUTE PLEASURE. THANKS AGAIN, LISA, OUR CAPTIONER. YOU'VE BEEN WONDERFUL AND HAVE A GREAT AFTERNOON. LET'S KEEP THE CONVERSATION GOING. DISCLAIMER "THIS TEXT IS BEING PROVIDED IN A LIGHTLY EDITED DRAFT FORMAT. COMMUNICATION ACCESS REALTIME TRANSLATION (CART) IS PROVIDED IN ORDER TO FACILITATE COMMUNICATION ACCESSIBILITY AND MAY NOT BE A TOTALLY VERBATIM RECORD 66 OF THE PROCEEDINGS. THE TEXT MAY ALSO CONTAIN ENVIRONMENTAL SOUNDS THAT OCCURRED DURING THE EVENT."