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Summer Leadership Training
HOPE Coalition hosts a two-day Summer Leadership Training to deepen statewide advocacy, policy, and storytelling skills.
HOPE at the All Children Thrive Conference
HOPE Leaders Anuoluwapo Olabode and Califa Leader Mia Bunes-Martinez sat on the All Children Thrive Conference. HOPE Leaders facilitated youth leadership workshops.
Internet Safety Day
HOPE Leaders joined Parents, Legislators, Industry Leaders, and Superintendent Tony Thurmond to envision solutions for youth by youth on Internet Safety Day.
HOPE Showcase
HOPE Podcast hosts led a showcase that dove into the addictive nature of social media, the messages we receive online, and the insightful interviews that were captured in the first … Continued
HOPE Speaks In Washington D.C.
HOPE Youth Leader Vaibhava Rajesh sat on the Youth Voice Panel, and Andrea Gil, Sr. Program Coordinator, moderated, hosted by Pinterest at the Halloween Bash in Washington D.C.
yli becomes a partner to the Inspired Internet Pledge!
Read more about the pledge here.
California Partner Project
HOPE Youth Leader Timothy Leung was appointed to the statewide ‘24-’25 Youth Advisory Committee at the California Partner Project, a nonprofit cofounded by CA First Partner Jennifer Sibel Newsom
Beyond the Blue Light
Healthy Online Platforms for Everyone (HOPE) publishes the first part of Beyond the Blue Light: Unexpected Harm, an animated series examining the positive and negative aspects of social media.
Calafia Talks AI At TechSoup
3rd Year Senior Fellows in yli’s statewide journalism program, Calafia, present their research on the impacts of generative AI on youth creatives to nonprofit leaders at TechSoup.
In collaboration with #GoodforMEdia, the HOPE Coalition launched the HOPE Podcast. A deep dive into the positive and negative aspects of social media that explores youth lived experiences with technology.
Listen here!
The Creative Code
3rd Year Senior Fellows in yli’s statewide journalism program, Calafia, publish The Creative Code, a 4-part podcast on the impacts of generative AI on youth creatives. Listen to their podcast … Continued
Calafia Talk AI
Capital & Main feature the work of 3rd Yeasr Senior Fellows in yli’s statewide journalism program, Calafia, on the impacts of generative AI on youth creatives in an article entitled, … Continued
False Promises
Youth journalists in Calafia, yli’s statewide journalism program, publish a zine and podcast entitled, False Promises: The Chasm Between Hope And Home.
Jesse Morris in The Sacramento Bee
The Sacramento Bee published Short-term rentals are ruining what we love about small California towns, an article by Jesse Morris, youth journalist in yli’s statewide journalism program Calafia.
Alexis Zuniga in The Fresno Bee
The Fresno Bee published Fresno’s minimum wage workers have a key need: affordable apartment housing, an article by Alexis Zuniga, youth journalist in yli’s statewide journalism program, Calafia.
HOPE Coalition presents at the American Public Health Association Conference
HOPE Coalition presents at the American Public Health Association Conference in Atlanta to share the impacts of alcohol and substances exposures on youth’s social media feed.
HOPE youth hold press conference on social media
After three years of building this work from a grassroots level, HOPE youth leaders and adult allies came together to deliver a powerful press conference in partnership with Assemblymember Buffy Wicks and California First Partner Jennifer Seibel Newsom.
Mind the Gap: Suppressed to Addressed
Youth journalists in Calafia – yli’s statewide journalism program, publish a zine and podcast entitled, Mind the Gap: Suppressed to Addressed.
Adamari Cota in The Desert Sun
The Desert Sun published My Flying Doctors experience helped affirm the need for healthcare, an article by Adamari Cota, a youth journalist in yli’s statewide journalism program Calafia.
Calafia 2024
Youth journalists in Calafia, yli’s statewide journalism program, published a zine and podcast entitled, Represent! Pride, Policy and Poetry.
HOPE Coalition presents a model policy that aims to reduce alcohol advertisements to youth on Meta social media platforms
HOPE Coalition’s model policy aims to reduce alcohol advertisements on social media
HOPE Coalition presents a model policy that aims to reduce alcohol advertisements to youth on social media platforms to Meta (formerly known as Facebook).
HOPE youth launch instagram campaign
HOPE Youth Coalition launches an instagram campaign to advocate for healthier online spaces.
HOPE Youth Coalition launched
The new Youth Coalition ensures that youth voice is included in the movement to create healthy social media environments.
Youth Leadership Institute Acquires YouthWire
YLI welcomed YouthWire, a cutting edge statewide youth media program, into the organization on October 1, 2018.
STAKE Act to Prevent Underage Tobacco Sales Becomes State Law
YLI youth and staff in San Mateo mobilized support for a statewide law to suspend and revoke a store’s license if the retailer is repeatedly convicted of selling tobacco products to minors.
Smoke-Free Cars Adopted
California Adopts Smoke-Free Playgrounds
California Passes Smoke-free Workplaces, Restaurants and Bars
National Youth Philanthropy Assessment Completed by YLI
With funding from the James Irvine Foundation, in 2001, YLI conducted the first scan and assessment of youth philanthropy at a national level. At this time, youth philanthropy gained momentum … Continued