SAN DIEGO ORGANIZING PROJECT

San diego youth organizing project: during fy 2023, san diego organizing project began a targeted youth engagement, organizing, civic education, and leadership development program. The four youth volunteers involved in fy 2023 were recruited from communities in san diego facing social and economic inequities, and had leadership and decision-making power at the outset of the program to determine its structure and goals. They are developing a shared vision for the program that includes expansion into local high schools and community colleges in addition to current member congregations, and issue work relating primarily to youth substance abuse and incarceration prevention.