Youth
  • held a living wage workshop for students from nine different Virginia college campuses including guest speakers Ben McKean, from United Students Against Sweatshops, and Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America
  • held a Dismantling Racism workshop for youth in Lynchburg, Amherst County and the Eastern Shore and have others planned
  • developed a VOP internship program to provide new avenues for high school and college students to work for social change
  • had several young leaders present living wage concepts to Albemarle County School officials which led to a policy change for low-wage workers
  • sent a delegation of young people to participate in the Southern Living Wage Conference
  • sent an intern to an international youth conference in Belize sponsored by Agricultural Missions
  • assisted an intern in coordinating an Agrarian Reform Panel as part of the Rural Justice Tour 2002 involving representatives of the Landless Workers Movement of Brazil, the Network of Amazonian Cooperation in Venezuela and the National Indigenous Congress in Mexico
  • had interns attend the World Economic Conference in New York City
  • had organizers and leaders speak for numerous classes, from high school to graduate school, about community organizing and social justice
  • provided major consulting support to JustChildren, a legal aid group working on children’s issues, to pass a statewide policy that requires the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice to develop regulations that provide mental health service transition plans for all incarcerated juveniles prior to their re-entry into the community

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