Are you informing or are you engaging youth and young adults authentically? (Virtual)

Date

Aug 27–27, 2021

Time

9:00AM – 10:30AM

Location

www.Facebook.com/RacialTruth or www.Youtube.com/VaVoices

, VA

**Community-Centered**

Are you engaging youth and young adults authentically? Learn the difference between outreach and engagement. Join Voices Advocacy & Engagement Manager and Racial Truth & Reconciliation Virginia Coalition Chair and Engagement Committee Co-Chairs for a roundtable conversation between young leaders around the topic of authentic youth and young adult engagement. Join to listen to hear the diverse voices in a space curated explicitly for engagement. Walk away with resources designed on how to engage individuals with lived experience in an intentional and ethical way. Register here. View the event on Facebook or Youtube live. 

Host:  

  • Allison Gilbreath, Policy & Programs Director, Voices for Virginia’s Children  

Presenters:  

  • Sophie Fontaine, Racial Truth & Reconciliation Virginia Engagement Committee Co-Chair & Youth & Young Adult Program Coordinator, NAMI Youth Move 
  • Sophia Booker, Racial Truth & Reconciliation Virginia Engagement Committee-Co-Chair & Youth Development Coordinator, Project LIFE