Calling all teens to join us along with Senator Andrea Stewart Cousins youth advisory council and the Westchester Parks Foundation for a spring clean up at Tibbets Brook Park in Yonkers.

Spend the day gathering, gardening, planting and other activities. Stay for a picnic lunch with the Senator.

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This is the culmination of our Spring Arts and Activism Series. Nine of our WYA members have worked hard since January putting together their own photo narrative series inspired by Gordon Parks.

Come and support WYA Members at this year’s photography showing at the Gordon Parks Museum in Pleasantville!

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Join us at our next WYA Weekly Meeting!

Come and learn about our involvement in the upcoming in the HHREC’s High School Leadership Institute at Iona College!

Come and support our youth facilitators and learn more about the human rights topics that are important to youth in Westchester!

This meeting is open to WYA Members & all local youth interested in getting involved in our community!

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Meet us at The Pamplemousse Project, a green design café in White Plains that uses revenue to directly support the needs of local nonprofit organizations!

This meeting will serve as the final workshop of our Arts & Activism Series: Portfolio Review. We will review the photos that you have created and select the ones that represent your photo narrative mission and vision.

This meeting is open to WYA Members & all local youth interested in getting involved in our community!

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Join us at our last workshop of the 2024 Arts & Activism Series!

Meet with a local photography expert, José A. Alvarado Jr., and learn how to develop a visual representation of your value-driven goal or mission.

In this workshop you will:
-Identify and conceptualize your values
-Finish creating a visual representation of an advocacy mission statement
-Leave feeling empowered to pursue mission driven goals

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We'll be gathering via Zoom to review our photo narrative portfolios before the gallery showing next month. This meeting will serve as our first working meeting of our Arts & Activism Series

This meeting is open to WYA Members & all local youth interested in getting involved in our community!

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Join us at the first workshop of the 2024 Arts & Activism Series.

Meet with a local photography expert and learn how to develop a visual representation of your value-driven goal or mission. In this workshop you will:

- Identify and conceptualize your values

- Begin creating a visual representation of an advocacy mission statement

- Leave feeling empowered to pursue mission driven goals

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Meet us at The Pamplemousse Project, a green design cafe in White Plains that uses revenue to directly support the needs of local nonprofit organizations!

We'll be joined by local council member Andres Castillo. This meeting will serve as the second workshop of our Arts & Activism Series: The Importance of Civic Engagement.

This meeting is open to WYA Members & all local youth interested in getting involved in our community!

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Join us at the first workshop of the 2024 Arts & Activism Series.

Learn how to develop a photo narrative that will serve as a visual representation of your value-driven goal or mission.

In this workshop you will:
- Identify and conceptualize your values
- Continue creating a visual representation of an advocacy mission statement
- Leave feeling empowered to pursue mission driven goals



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Join us at our next WYA Weekly Meeting!

We’ll be starting our 2024 Art & Activism Series by unpacking advocacy themes learned from last weekend’s film screening of “A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks”. Specifically focusing on advocacy topics that will prepare us for this year’s 6-week photo narrative series

This meeting is open to WYA Members & all local youth interested in getting involved in our community!

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WYA presents a community movie screening of the movie “A Choice of Weapons - The Life and Legacy of the Remarkable Gordon Parks”.

This event will kick off our Art & workshop series, in which youth will engage with advocacy and leadership themes depicted in the movie and develop their own local advocacy project.

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Curious about WYA and don't know how to join? Already a member feeling reinvigorated this New Year?

This virtual meeting is the perfect time to jump back in, find out what we've been up to and what we've got planned for 2024!

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Join us in December for our Winter Toy Drive with Toys for Tots Westchester County in Hastings-on-Hudson!

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Come to this virtual meeting to talk about current events and learn more about how you can get involved this holiday season!

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Come to our Annual Thanksgiving Cooking and Interfaith Service Event! Join a grassroots initiative to cook and prepare over 2,000 holiday meals to combat food insecurity.

Important Details:

• Cook, prepare and help organize food

• Over 20 local food pantries served

• All high school teens, WYA members, friends & alumni welcome

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Join us for our first virtual meeting of the year! The holiday season is right around the corner and we’ll be talking about and getting ready for our biggest service event of the year: the WYA Thanksgiving Cooking and Interfaith Service Event at Temple Shaaray Tefila!

Every year high school serving organizations get together with us and help us cook over 100+ meals for people experiencing hunger in Westchester County.

Come to this virtual meeting to meet our members, help us plan and find out more!

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Join us at the Pamplemousse Cafe in White Plains in partnership with Senator Shelley Mayer’s Office’s Youth Advisory Council and Keepers of the Dream for our last narrative writing Share Your Story Sunday workshop.

Come to this workshop if you’re interested in:

• talking about current events

• learning more about yourself

• learning how to create a personal narrative to affect change locally, nationally and globally!

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WE STAND TOGETHER 10/29 3:00 pm

Join us this Sunday, October 29 at 3:00 pm as J-Teen Leadership’s Eli Jubilerer and HGHS’s ENOUGH club president, Elliott Saiontz, facilitate an interfaith teen event to educate us about antisemitism and bullying in our schools. With guests Scott Richman from the ADL and others, we will explore these topics and learn how to stand together to strike down discrimination. 

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Join us at the YWCA in White Plains in partnership with Senator Shelley Mayer’s Office’s Youth Advisory Council and Keepers of the Dream for our second narrative writing Share Your Story Sunday workshop.

Come to this workshop if you’re interested in:

• talking about current events

• learning more about yourself

• learning how to create a personal narrative to affect change locally, nationally and globally!

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Join us at the YWCA in White Plains in partnership with Senator Shelley Mayer’s Office Youth Advisory Council and Keepers of the Dream for our first narrative writing Share Your Story Sunday workshop with Director of Teen Programs at Writopia, Lena Roy!

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We are partnering with J-Teen and will be at HOPE community food pantry in New Rochelle on Monday, October 9th! HOPE is a community service organization in New Rochelle, New York, providing emergency food services, housing, children’s supportive programming and a full array of social services to all in our community who may need it, with dignity and respect. We will be spending our time sorting and packing food and volunteering in the soup kitchen. For more information about HOPE please see their website: HOPE Community Services

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Join us at the YWCA in White Plains in partnership with Senator Shelley Mayer’s Office Youth Advisory Council to help organize our upcoming narrative writing workshop called Share Your Story Sunday.

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Wear your work boots and prepare to get dirty. Help this organic community farm harvest vegetables, pick eggs and clean up for the fall. Learn about food insecurity in Westchester and what you can do to help. Ice cream break and veggies to take home too.

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Come find out about how you can get involved with the Westchester Youth Alliance at our End of Summer Bonfire! We’ll be talking service work, community building & making s’mores!

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Join us at Maya Riviera Restaurant in Briarcliff for food, friends and fun as we celebrate the successful service and leadership that we've done throughout the school year!

Come find out how to get involved with WYA this summer! This dinner is completely free and open to all teens who are interested in meeting our members and getting to know more about the Westchester Youth Alliance.

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Join us at the First Congregational church for an informational session, Q&A, and post-event reception.

We are hosting a youth and alumni conversation in partnership with Horace Greeley High School’s Alliance for Equality, the First Congregational Church of Chappaqua, New Castle’s LGBTQ + Committee, and New Castle United for Youth, for a panel discussion and community conversation on Transgender identity.

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Attention all youth and young adults! New Era Creative Space presents an afternoon with Motivational Speaker and Civil Rights Foot Soldier Joanne Bland.

She marched in Selma as a young girl. Now she strives to inspire others.

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Join a group of fellow young people and New York State leaders to share your experiences and your recommendations for Governor Hochul regarding mental health.

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Join us for WYA’s first Service Event with our partners Hilltop Hanover Farms and the Federated Conservationists of Westchester County Student Network!

End the school year doing a fun outdoor summer activity while doing service work and giving back to your community. Get to know teens like you!

End the day with a community conversation surrounding environmentalism and food insecurity in Westchester.

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