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Youth Leadership Institute brings young people together and equips them to lead positive social change within their communities. We achieve this by listening to their ideas, sharpening their skills and talents, and providing them with effective training tools and resources to make their voices heard.

We operate community-based programs in seven offices and statewide. Use the map or links below to navigate to the region you want to know more about.

Our Programs

San Francisco 9Marin 7San Mateo 17Merced 11Fresno 17Eastern Coachella Valley 5Long Beach 10Statewide 9Madera 6

San Francisco9

• Justice Grows Here
• Concrete Rose
• Youth Alcohol Prevention Coalition
• MPACT and WPX3

Past Programs

• CounSEL
• Youth Participatory Action Research
• Oakland Police Community Youth Leadership Council
• B.L.I.N.G.
• Community Action Model

Marin7

• K-12 Behavioral Health Services Campaign
• Novato Community Program
• Marin Organizing for Racial Equity
• Marin Prevention Network
• Marin County Friday Night Live
• Marin County Youth Commission (MCYC)

Past Programs

• Marin Student Advocacy Councils

San Mateo17

• Sequoia High School Youth Advisory Board
• K-12 Behavioral Health Services Campaign
• Tobacco Prevention – Youth Advisory Group
• Vibrant Opportunities for Involvement, Community, and Empowerment (VOICE)
• Help@Hand
• Healthy Online Platforms for Everyone (HOPE)
• Friday Night Live Coastside Youth Council
• San Mateo County Youth Commission

Past Programs

• Green Internship
• Youth Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, and Employment
• San Mateo Youth Advocates
• Cunha Club Live
• Silicon Valley Community Foundation Journalism Program
• Daly City Bay Leaders
• Transportation Equity Allied Movement Coalition (TEAMC)
• Healthy Youth-Led Policy and Empowerment (HYPE)
• San Mateo County Friday Night Live

Merced11

• Concrete Rose
• Cactus Flower
• K-12 Behavioral Health Services Campaign
• Healing Generation Center
• Mental Health Services Act
• Youth United
• Moving Forward
• We’Ced Youth Media

Past Programs

• Youth Suicide Prevention
• Girls and Womyn of Color (GWoC)
• Rise and Lift

Fresno17

• Journalists of Color
• Multilingual Storytelling
• REP 559
• Betting on our Future (BOOF)
• Fresno County Prevention & Early Intervention
• Hispañas Youth Leadership Program (HYLP)
• The kNOw Fresno
• Youth Advocacy Leadership League (YALL)

Past Programs

• Fresno Residents Council
• Transform Fresno Youth Leadership Program
• Golden Plains Student Advocacy Council
• Census 2020
• Fresno Youth Platform
• Mobilizing Youth to Nix Tobacco (MYNT)
• Rural Youth Commission Advocacy
• Fresno Youth Commission
• Fresno Boys and Men of Color (BMOC)

Eastern Coachella Valley5

• K-12 Behavioral Health Services Campaign
• ¡Que Madre!
• Coachella Unincorporated

Past Programs

• Trusted Messenger
• COVID-19 Response

Long Beach10

• K-12 Behavioral Health Services Campaign
• VoiceWaves

Past Programs

• Youth Suicide Prevention
• College, Outreach and Learning (CORAL)
• The Miller Project
• My Hood, My City
• Betting on Our Future (BOOF)
• LA County Tobacco Prevention Program
• My Brother’s Keeper (MBK)
• Long Beach Tobacco Youth Group

Statewide9

• K-12 Behavioral Health Services Campaign
• Sons & Brothers
• Youth-Led Resources on COVID-19
• Healthy Online Platforms for Everyone (HOPE)

Past Programs

• Youth Suicide Prevention
• Trusted Messenger
• Vaccinate All 58
• PolicyWise
• Calafia

Madera6

• REP 559

Past Programs

• Trusted Messenger
• The Youth Collective
• Mobilizing Youth to Nix Tobacco (MYNT)
• Student Voices United
• Madera Youth Commission