Overview
Youth Leadership Institute (yli) brings together young people and their adult allies to create positive community change that promotes social justice and racial equity. With community-based programs based in Fresno, San Francisco, Marin, San Mateo, Merced, Long Beach and the Eastern Coachella Valley, yli engages young people of color, low-income youth, and other impacted youth as advocates of social change.
yli CORE VALUES
- Inclusion: Young people are profoundly impacted by policies affecting their communities. yli brings youth to the table and works to institutionalize youth voice in the decision-making process.
- Innovation: Youth can often see a way forward where adults cannot. yli encourages youth to identify and implement their own solutions to the issues their communities face.
- Social Justice: Throughout history, young people have ignited and led social justice movements to create a better world for everyone. yli helps them to focus their attention on the root causes of injustice, and sharpen the skills they need to tackle them.
- Community: Nobody can do it alone! Through relationship and coalition-building, yli feeds the connective tissue within our communities to power our movements with the brilliance, resourcefulness, and wisdom of our partners.
We are looking for a Program Coordinator (PC) in Marin County! The PC will work in partnership with youth (ages 12 – 24) to organize, empower and mobilize youth and their communities to win real improvements for young people in Marin. The PC will train and support youth leaders to develop and deepen political consciousness, assess and understand issues impacting their health and well being, build relationships and partnerships with other youth and community supporters, and drive countywide and local community campaigns that create long- term systems and/or policy change, and build power for future victories.
The PC will manage all of the logistics and functional tasks necessary for meeting the goals and objectives of the assigned programs, and for ensuring that the young people are experiencing high-quality and culturally relevant leadership opportunities.
This PC will lead the Marin County Youth Commission (MCYC), a group of 23 youth aged 12-23 years whose role is to act as a political voice for young people — particularly those in underserved populations, including youth of color, youth with disabilities, homeless youth, rural youth, and LGBTQ+ youth — by engaging with the Marin County Board of Supervisors and other policymakers. The PC will also implement a school-based Friday Night Live program (FNL). FNL is an evidence-based youth development framework to aid in the reduction of youth substance use as well as implementing our Social Emotional Learning track through FNL.