External Workshops

Our Pilot Workshops

Organizing 101

A workshop that introduces the role organizing has in our lives and past movements. We also explore the different types of organizing, learn about the different parts of a campaign, and what makes campaigns effective.

1. How would your group benefit from Organizing their communities?

2. What issues impact your group?

3. What communities do the people in your group come from?

American Dream

Some people have more advantages than others; some advantages are out of our control (being born into a privileged identity). In this workshop, youth can identify where they are privileged and where they can stand as effective allies to their peers who are oppressed.

1. Is the American Dream an ideology your group identifies with?

Students’ Rights to Organize

Have some issues that you want to change in your school? Learn what your rights are when organizing in your school community, what to expect, and how to get other students and allies involved.

1. Has your group ever thought of school as a ground for political action?

External workshops are a way for YA-YA to be engaged in conversations and action steps happening in impacted communities in NYC. Through our workshops, we are able to train, support, and build trust with the schools and community bases that are connected to youth activists citywide. Typically we engage 20-30 youth per workshop, and workshops are facilitated by our trained facilitators. Typically, we offer capacity for 1-2 external workshops a month.

The Village

A workshop designed to give participants an experience of non-violent action, to build shared experiences through a group challenge, and to practice organizing tactics. Participants learn about the impacts of gentrification, incarceration, and the power of corporations in communities, while also imagining their own ideal communities and what it takes to protect them.

1. Does your group engage in direct action?

2. How would your group benefit from seeing resistance as a solution?

School-to-Prison Pipeline

A workshop that explores the different experiences youth have in schools that relate to the school-to-prison pipeline. This is an introduction to how the school-to-prison pipeline impacts students that are at risk of being pushed out and end up in the criminal justice system. We also talk about school policies that reflect a culture of pushout. This workshop ultimately makes space to find solutions that address the problems in our schools and create a safer and more inclusive learning environment for oppressed youth.

1. Is your group impacted by the school-to-prison pipeline/ school pushout?

2. How would your group benefit from understanding the STPP?

3. What communities do the people in your group come from?