Our Mission
Westchester Youth Alliance builds bridges across our diverse communities of faith, race and identity through dialogue and service that strive for justice and understanding.
Our program provides a vehicle for teens to engage in dialogue and action based on common values. Our activities include service projects, art project and regular gatherings to connect, reflect and plan.
The Westchester Youth Alliance grew out of a dream that our communities would be stronger and our world safer if we broke that silence and worked to build a better understanding between people of different faith traditions. And that the place to start was with our youth. We believed that if we could pull together a group of high school students from different backgrounds and give them an opportunity to learn with and from each other and to work side by side on community service projects we could model an understanding of community that would act as a counter balance to the fear and ignorance and misinformation which often divide us from each other.
After more than a year of dreaming and planning, we received a grant. The Westchester Youth Alliance was launched in September 2012.