Jean Childs Young Institute For

Youth Leadership

Jean Childs Young  

The Inspiration: 

Jean Childs Young was an educator, civil and human rights activist and community volunteer with lifelong concerns for national and international issues, particularly those related to women and children. In addition to chairing the US Commission on the UN International Year of Child, forming the Mayor’s Task Force on Public Education and creating the Dream Jamoree College and Career Fair for Atlanta High School students, she was a driving force behind our creation.
 

      The Action: 

Incorporated in 1991 as the Atlanta/Fulton Commission on Children and Youth, we changed our name in 1992 to honor the legacy of our late co-founder. 

The Jean Childs Young Institute for Youth Leadership is a voluntary partnership of metropolitan Atlanta youth and adults working together to improve the lives of children and youth in Atlanta through leadership development, collaboration, advocacy, and service.

Jean’s innovation – combined with the experienced advocacy of Lucy Carpenter Vance, her co-founder—prompted adults to collaborate with metropolitan-Atlanta high school students in developing a philosophy of community development through youth leadership.

The Institute learned that supporting youth to participate in correcting the negative conditions that impact their lives provides them with constructive ways to interact with their peers and with their communities. Both young people and their communities benefit from youth-created solutions that address some of our most difficult and serious issues, including violence, sexual harassment and poor schools.

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