POWER UP WITH YOUth
A nonpartisan Youth-Led initiative connecting young people with the knowledge, people, resources, and opportunities that help them understand their world, find their place in it, make a difference, shape their futures and grow!
IT’S YOUR WORLD TOO!
Learn about it!
Find your place in it!
Help shape what comes next!
You have ideas, questions, talents, and perspectives that matter. You don’t have to wait until you’re 18 to learn, contribute, and make a difference.
Power Up With YOUth connects young people and communities with people, information, resources, and opportunities to learn, grow, and discover what’s possible.
We meet people where they are, build bridges to new possibilities, and help people find meaningful ways to contribute.
FOUR WAYS WE POWER UP TOGETHER
1. WE POWER UP PEOPLE
Everyone has something to learn. Everyone has something to offer.
Meet the people who can help us learn, grow, connect, and make a difference.
Explore: Who We Are
2. WE POWER UP PLACES
Your world is bigger than your classrooms.
Discover what’s happening in our communities and the places where we learn, participate, and contribute.
Explore: What We Do
3. WE POWER UP PURPOSE
What you know matters. What you do with it matters even more.
Learn how we listen, ask questions, see the bigger picture, build bridges, connections and relationships and take the next right step.
Explore: How We Power Up
4. WE POWER UP POSSIBILITIES
Explore the real world. Discover what’s possible. Find your place. Make a difference.
See how young people are using their ideas, knowledge, creativity, and skills to contribute to the world around them.
Explore: Youth in Action
HOW WE POWER UP
We go where young people and communities are.
We listen, learn, discover what’s already happening, and connect people with helpers, organizations, information, resources, and opportunities.
We don’t have to do everything ourselves. Sometimes the next right step is to lead. Sometimes it’s to collaborate, support an existing effort, or connect people who can help one another.
We build bridges to help people discover what’s possible and take the next right step.
Explore: How We Power Up
YOUTH IN ACTION
Young people don’t have to wait until they’re 18 to make a difference.
They can ask questions, explore issues, develop skills, use technology, create solutions, speak up, and contribute to their communities now.
See what happens when young people have opportunities to learn, participate, and put their powers to good use.
Explore: Youth in Action
GET INVOLVED
You don’t have to do everything. You have something to contribute.
Whether you’re a young person, family member, educator, Youth Ally, community organization, professional, or neighbor, you may have knowledge, skills, relationships, or ideas that can help open a door for someone else.
Let’s discover what we can do together.
Explore: Get Involved
SUPPORT US
Help connect young people with the people, resources, and opportunities that can help them learn, grow, and contribute.
Your support can help us build connections, open doors, and create more opportunities for young people to participate in shaping their future.
Explore: Support Us
Power Up “REAL WORLD” Programs
WHERE WE’VE BEEN AND WHAT WE’VE LEARNED
Our experiences have taught us that meaningful change doesn’t happen in isolation.
It happens when people listen to one another, share what they know, recognize what others bring, and work together to explore possibilities.
Through our work with young people, schools, community members, and partners, we’ve seen what can happen when people connect their knowledge, skills, and resources around something that matters.
We’re continuing to learn, make connections, and discover new ways to help young people and communities participate in shaping their future.
Explore: What We Do
UP THE TURNOUT 2024
120 students. More than 1,200 voters reached.
In our first Up the Turnout program, Power Up With YOUth partnered with San Diego Unified School District and the BAPACSD Foundation to help young people understand the power and process of voting—and put what they learned into action.
Working with teachers, community leaders, elected officials, and volunteers, students took their learning into the community and helped inspire more than 1,200 people to participate in the democratic process.
Youth learned.
Youth led.
Youth made a difference.
See what they did →
