2018-637-E Finance - Youth Community Project outside agency agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID:3457204A-7765-4E36-8B42-227F6F673AF6 XHIBIT A PROVIDER'S OUTSIDE AGENCY APPLICATION 1. YOLD • Youth Restorative Justice Circles including Parents Against Racism, and Creative Swag Sisters have been working with YCP to develop and hold events and trainings. • Triangle Bikeworks participates and collaborates in YCP events; the two organizations share a board member. Program Description (3 pages OR LESS) Please provide the following information about the proposed program: d) Summarize the program services proposed and how the program will address a Town/County priority/goal? Youth Community Project will conduct its 2nd annual youth organizing and leadership development camp based on Youth Organizing Institute's Summer Freedom School model with Street Scene Teen Center (SSTC) and Beat Making Lab (BML). The camp will educate youth aged 14 to 18 around four subjects: organizing skills, political analysis, restorative justice and young people's movement history. YCP will run the program for two weeks in July of 2017. This will be executed by YCP's paid staff with limited assistance from YCP's board and paid staff from SSTC and BML. Volunteers, activists, and paid workshop facilitators will be necessary to make the organizing camp a success. Topics will include school to prison pipeline, sexism and homophobia, reproductive justice, Native liberation, and race in the United States. Youth will leave the camp as more confident leaders, qualified speakers on social justice, and experts on leveraging people power. They will become leaders in their social circles or school classes in the fight against racism, bigotry, and homophobia. Organizing camp will have a morning and afternoon workshop, lunch for the youth, and games that build youth confidence. Youth will meet inspiring community members and local leaders in social justice. They will learn both academic information and hard skills to use in a multitude of situations. The organizing camp's goal is that youth leave as organizers, thought leaders, and facilitators of change in their communities. This program addresses funding priority two. The program targets marginalized youth including African Americans, Latino youth, and youth from low income families. These youth are currently underserved and the town has struggled to engage them, politically and otherwise. e) Describe the community need or problem to be addressed in relation to the Chapel Hill Human Services Needs Assessment, Orange County BOCC Goals and Priorities, Town of Chapel Hill Council Goals, Carrboro Board Priorities, or other community priorities (i.e. Council/Board Goals). Reference local data (using the provided links, i.e. Chapel Hill Human Services Needs Assessment) to support the need for this program. Racism, homophobia, and marginalization runs deeply through US society. These problems continue because our youth are not socialized with race, class and gender equity in mind. In late 2015, East Chapel Hill High experienced homophobic messages throughout the school. There was no organized response from students. Individuals must be educated to be able to fight these social problems. In March 2016, the NC State Legislature passed and Governor McCrory signed HB2, an open attack by the state government and its supporters on the LGBTQ community and labeled the most anti-LGBTQ legislation in the US. There is currently no youth organizing initiative in Chapel Hill, Carrboro or Orange County that teaches youth hard intersectional skills to use in response to racism, homophobia, or forms of bigotry. These issues are widely PROGRAM INFORMATION 1/31/2017 12:37:26 PM Page 14 of 45