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Leap the GAP!
Recommendations for Action (download PDF)
Summer draft submitted to the AAPS School Board 6.27.2007  
A 2 1/2 year research project of the Youth Senate 
in partnership with the Ann Arbor Public Schools 

Click here for the 2007-2008
Teen Yellow Pages!

So, shouldn’t we as young people have a voice in issues that directly concern us?

And, shouldn’t adults recognize that the tradition of making decisions for youth without youth has failed and that our ideas and solutions need to be taken seriously?

Youth Empowerment Project Mission:

To foster, develop and support youth initiative, and a strong representational youth voice in the service and decision-making life of our community, and to engage youth as resources on a county, state-wide, national and international basis.

What we forget is that some of the greatest minds in the world were teens when they came up with their great ideas.

 

- Herb David, Herb David Guitar Studio

  

We will not mysteriously learn how to fulfill our civic duties the day we turn 18. We are a large presence in our community and accordingly, we should have a voice in its decision-making.

 

- Raphaëlle Monty, YEP Lead Team member, YEP-YOB Student Advocacy Center Board Member, Senate Forum Coordinator, Huron High School, 2003

  

 

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