Category: Current Events & Info
Can you believe it’s already autumn? This means it’s the season for pumpkin lattes, sweaters, school… and to find new NYLN leaders! The National Youth Leadership Network (NYLN) is accepting applications for our Governing Board (GB) and our two committees. NYLN is a membership-run organization. This means all our members lead and run all the [...]
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The National Youth Leadership Network is proud to announce: OUR FIRST EVER DISABILITY CULTURE ZINE! The National Youth Leadership Network is a youth-led organization that works to build power and community among young people with disabilities. This summer, our Zine Leadership Team put out a call for submissions to create an online zine about disability [...]
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The Alliance for Full Participation’s November 17-19, 2011 Summit: Real Jobs–It’s Everyone’s Business, will be an historic convening of the leadership of the intellectual and developmental disability community. SCHOLARSHIPS MAY BE AVAILABLE! The scholarship application was due on August 15, 2011, but please contact them — the Alliance is committed to supporting young people with [...]
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The National Youth Leadership Network (NYLN) would like to announce Crafting Resilience, a new online art collection devoted to celebrating resilience [staying strong when bad things happen]. We are seeking art, poetry, writing and more. We want art from young people, community members, and elders with disabilities. We are using art to stand against violence [...]
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Submit Your Work to Be Published in the 2011 NYLN Disability Culture Zine! Are you a writer or an artist? Do you want to express your feelings about disability culture, pride, identity, ableism, and more? Do you want to have your work seen by hundreds of people? If you answered YES to the above questions, [...]
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Keeping the Promise of Community New Report by ASAN, SABE, and NYLN The National Youth Leadership Network (NYLN) is excited to release a new report called “Keeping the Promise of Community”. This report was written with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) and Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE). This is an exciting time for all [...]
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The National Youth Leadership Network (NYLN) is thrilled to announce that we are accepting applications for new state partners! Are you an activist looking for support to start a youth-led local or state organization? Do you belong to a group that wants to connect into a national network of disabled youth organizers? NYLN is a [...]
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The National Youth Leadership Network is thrilled to share some big news! The Reap What You Sow: Harvesting Support Systems curriculum and the trainings that go with it are now available for purchase. This curriculum will spark amazing conversations and new opportunities for communities. Building relationships is an important way to grow power. The Reap [...]
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New Priorities Over time, our membership has pushed us to think about where “change” comes from. Originally, much of our work focused on very literal topics, like policy issues. We used a traditional social framework. (Example: Creating space for youth in policy discussions.) While we still do this work, NYLN has identified more personalized priorities [...]
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written by A’ishah Hils, NYLN Governing Board Member and Disability Justice track coordinator Two NYLN Governing Board members, A’ishah Hils and Savannah Logsdon-Breakstone, attended a coordinator’s meeting for the Allied Media Conference. The Allied Media Conference is an annual gathering for independent media makers, activists, and community builders. The conference happens in Detroit every June. [...]
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