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By Brenda V. Perez Amador (Changemaker, ND4Y) and Kathy Tran (Senior Policy Analyst, CLASP) The New Deal for Youth (ND4Y) Policy Platform advances radical and interconnected policy ideas that transform current systems and center racial, gender, and social justice. This blog is one in a four-part series that introduces the ND4Y framework: Reparations, Liberation, Decriminalization, and Abolition. A New Deal…
Changemaker Kadesha Mitchell and Dr. Nia Best-Wey, CLASP’s director of youth policy, presented the ND4Y Healing and Wellbeing Demands at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing Conference. Check out their digital poster and read the Solutions Guide with tips on taking better care of your mental health here.
"Society will try to break you down in many ways, school pushout is one but always remember you are enough, you are worthy, you are a Black woman, the strongest, the most resilient, the most fearless, the most hardworking, the most outgoing, and nobody will ever take that away from you.” - Oumou Kaba The…
Jazmine Wildcat is entering her senior year at Riverton High School in Wyoming. Even as a young person, she has spent most of her years advocating for equality and equity for others and ensuring that humankind and the Earth will be protected for future generations. Being diagnosed with depression and anxiety, Jazmine founded the Nii’iini…
After years of decline, poverty increased for young people in 2020. (byronv2 / Flickr) The U.S. has failed to meaningfully address young people’s physical and emotional health in the last year. What kind of “recovery” systematically fails an entire generation? What are we saying to young people about their value when their cries for economic…
This post was guest authored by Marissa Howdershelt, a fourth year student at University of California-Riverside, majoring in Public Policy with a minor in education. They are involved with New Deal for Youth Changemakers’ Healing and Well-being initiative. Marissa Howdershelt The New Deal for Youth Changemakers from the Healing and Well-being subcommittee were graciously invited to the Hogg Foundation…
In August 2021, New Deal for Youth (ND4Y) Changemakers participated in a panel titled “Beyond the Climate Crisis: The Journey to Environmental Justice” for the Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s Emerging Leaders’ Summit. During the conversation, Changemakers Aniya Butler, Kaliko Kalahiki, and Marissa Howdershelt highlighted radical and holistic solutions that value our humanity and collective well-being over corporate greed. ND4Y Changemakers believe…
The California homelessness crisis is not Governor Newsom’s fault, nor is it a recent issue. It’s offensive and unconscionable to blame one man for a decades long struggle of structural inequality that is baked into the framework of this state and this nation. While California makes up about 12 percent of the US population, the…
“As a Black woman, I definitely have more of a desire for [reparations] to happen. But I do feel like everybody should be able to recognize that there is a debt to be paid to the descendants of African slaves.” - Kaylyn Goode, A New Deal for Youth Changemaker In May of 2021, New Deal…
“I want to help people that look like me and have experienced what I have experienced. I want to be able to be an advocate for them… If I can reach back and give someone a hand, I definitely want to.” - Yusef Presley, New Deal for Youth Changemaker By Jacquelyn Sullivan Since 1988, U.S. presidents…
She the People is celebrating Women’s History Month by looking to the future. This list highlights just 25 of the young women and girls of color who are changing the cultural and political landscape. They have roots across the country, from battleground states like North Carolina, Georgia and Ohio, to sites of historic struggle like…
A group of student activists ages 14 to 25 is urging the Biden administration and Congress to create a plan for youth modeled on the Roosevelt administration’s response to widespread unemployment of young adults during the Great Depression. The group is asking for what they term a New Deal for Youth. Among other goals, it would…
Our nation is at a crossroads. We are in the midst of a global pandemic and an economic recession. Since the summer, hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets to protest racial injustice, public lynchings, and police brutality. In the face of these systemic challenges and public health threats, young people are leading and…
March 4, 2021, WASHINGTON, DC - Today, young leaders at the helm of A New Deal for Youth (ND4Y) released the following statement calling for swift passage of the American Rescue Plan, while noting how it still fails to address the specific challenges facing young people in America that have been exacerbated by the pandemic.…
Inspired by FDR’s New Deal, Policy Effort Focuses on Youth-Led and Youth-Centered Solutions to Address Challenges Exacerbated by the Coronavirus Pandemic February 4, 2021, WASHINGTON, DC – Today, young adult leaders from across the country called on the Biden Administration, Members of Congress, public and private sectors decisionmakers to support Why We Can’t Wait: A New…