Youth Leadership Programs
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Building Bridges Leadership Academy (BBLA)
This is a training program for for 18+ adult allies who want to be volunteer facilitators for Building Bridges Youth programs.
Facilitated by CCEJ staff and experienced volunteer facilitators, this program prepares new and returning volunteers to facilitate our youth programs.
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Summer Youth Leadership Institute (SYLI)
This leadership institute offers an intensive training for students becoming Youth Leader staff at Building Bridges Camp.
Participating students must have previously attended Building Bridges Camp. Students will attend a 3 day retreat and meet weekly for 5 weeks over the summer!
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Building Bridges Camp
A 3-day, overnight program for high school students focused on exploring issues of oppression, justice, and the impact those forces have on their daily lives. Students also learn concrete strategies for advocating for justice in their schools and communities.
We host a Racial Justice Camp and a Gender Justice Camp.
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Conscious Classrooms
This is an in-school program for middle or high school youth focused on building awareness, knowledge, and skills students need to promote respect, advocate for social justice, and strengthen the learning environment in classrooms and schools.
We offer a FREE 3-day Facilitator Training at our office, followed by practice sessions.
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Youth Leadership Workshops
We can create customized Youth Leadership Workshops for your organization’s youth that support young people in discussing social justice topics.
These workshops seek to tap into the inherent power of youth and equip them with skills to make change in their schools and communities at large!
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Healing Harms
We work with communities across Southern California to create more humanizing and relationship-centered ways for people in serious conflict to find change, accountability, and healing.
This program equips young people with tools to navigate systems that perpetuate structural inequities in our society and handle challenges in their lives, families, schools, and communities.
Curious about bringing CCEJ’s Youth Leadership programs to your school or organization? Want to cultivate adult allyship?
Read our Youth Leadership Menu of Services to learn about:
Customized Youth Leadership Workshops
Conscious Classrooms Units
Technical Assistance & Coaching Services
Customized Adult Allyship in Action Workshops
Contact us to get more information!
Key Team Members
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Vanessa Coover
Restorative Justice Specialist
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Trisha Herrera
Youth Leadership Coordinator
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Serena Padilla
Director of Building Bridges for Youth
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Nicole Taylor
Community & Schools Engagement Coordinator
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April Van Ligten
Vice President of Youth Leadership