Youth & Local Government

What Matters to Youth? | What is Planning? | Getting Your Voice Heard | Youth Boards, Councils, & Commissions | Volunteer & Internship Opportunities

What Matters to YOUth?

• Rainier Beach High School Rallies for Free Bus Passes for Low-Income Students
• Bellevue’s Youth Priorities
• 2013 Youth Summit on Climate Change
• Student-led No Idling Campaign: 5th & 6th  Graders Investigate Effects of Idling Cars and other Traffic Issues

What is Planning?

• The Future Belongs to Those Who Prepare For It Video
• What is a City Planner?
• More about City Planning
• Planning as a Profession and the American Planning Association Video

Getting Your Voice Heard

• Rainier Beach High School Rallies for Free Bus Passes for Low-Income Students
• Foster High School Civics class’ open letter to Tukwila’s new mayor
• Letter to Seattle Mayor Murray and Seattle City Council from Rainier Beach High Schoolers via WA-APA

Youth Boards, Councils, & Commissions

• Auburn Youth Council
• Bellevue Youth Link Board and Youth Council
• Kirkland Youth Council
• Issaquah Youth Advisory Board
• Lakewood Youth Advisory Council
• Marysville Youth Council
• Mill Creek Youth Advisory Board
• Mukilteo Youth Advisory Committee (MYAC)
• Redmond Youth Partnership Advisory Committee
• Seattle Youth Commission
• Snohomish County Children’s Commission
• Washington State Legislative Youth Advisory Council (LYAC)

Volunteer & Internship Opportunities

• Check back for upcoming volunteer and internship opportunities.

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