The Youth Over Violence Leadership Institute prepares youth to make powerful social change in their communities.
This year marks the 10-year anniversary of our Youth Over Violence Leadership Institute. Every year, POV has worked hard to design a summer program that aims to educate and build youth leaders by giving them the tools they need to go out into their communities to advocate for and build a world free from interpersonal violence.
This year we have changed things up. COVID-19 created a pandemic that robbed youth of their lives - no graduation, no prom, no grades, the haunting fear of infection, death, illness. There is a collective trauma that our community is experiencing that is unlike anything that came before. There is sadness, anger, confusion, hopelessness. We hear you.
So, instead of business as usual, we have created a new kind of youth institute with a new kind of goal.