YOUTH ASSEMBLY

YOUTH ASSEMBLY

Join us Thursday, May 16, 4:00 - 6:00 PM for our Yes to Youth Campaign Meeting. We will be meeting to discuss our strategy to get our Yes to Youth Campaign demands met in Nashville, surrounding counties, and throughout Tennessee. This is an in person event. Please register for the location. 


The Varsity Spending Plan is a $10 million investment in young people, families, and neighborhoods in Nashville that builds safer communities, addresses gun violence, and reduces our reliance on arrests, courts, and jails.

Safe and racially just communities are created through investments in mental and emotional health support services, after-school programming, transformative justice programming, and investments in public goods.

We are creating alternatives to youth arrests, prosecution, and incarceration by organizing youth impacted by school pushouts and/or the juvenile justice system. Safe communities require innovation that should be led by community members and significant investments in student resources and public goods.

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We are training and organizing young people through our Youth Assembly Training Cohort so they have the tools to practice participatory democracy and organize for power. Additionally, our Youth Assembly Program includes regular youth meetings and youth assemblies with young people across the city.

We understand that to win against the school-to-prison pipeline and criminalization of young people, we must work with parents or educators. We have decided to work with both. Parallel to the Youth Assembly is our Black Educators Collective, including educators and parents.