Virtual Member Meeting
Join our Member Meeting: a chill, judgment-free space to hold meaningful conversations, share perspectives, and build social-emotional skills in a supportive environment. No pressure, just genuine connection!
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Virtual Member Meeting
Join our Member Meeting: a chill, judgment-free space to hold meaningful conversations, share perspectives, and build social-emotional skills in a supportive environment. No pressure, just genuine connection!
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Young Visionaries Expressive Art Space
Join us at Young Visionaries, where watercolors and creativity meet mindfulness. Each session is a chance to unwind, explore art, and discover your authentic voice. Through gentle creative expression, we build inner strength while nurturing our community. Come paint, breathe, and grow with us Wednesdays after school at White Plains Library!
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Virtual Member Meeting
Join our Member Meeting: a chill, judgment-free space to hold meaningful conversations, share perspectives, and build social-emotional skills in a supportive environment. No pressure, just genuine connection!
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Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center Institute on Human Rights
Join the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center's 23rd Annual Institute on Human Rights at Iona University. This transformative program empowers high school sophomores to become advocates for dignity and respect while learning crucial lessons from the Holocaust. Through interactive sessions, students will develop action plans to address human rights issues in their communities and beyond!
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Young Visionaries Expressive Art Space
Join us at Young Visionaries, where watercolors and creativity meet mindfulness. Each session is a chance to unwind, explore art, and discover your authentic voice. Through gentle creative expression, we build inner strength while nurturing our community. Come paint, breathe, and grow with us Wednesdays after school at White Plains Library!
Click here to register!
Virtual Member Meeting
Join our Member Meeting: a chill, judgment-free space to hold meaningful conversations, share perspectives, and build social-emotional skills in a supportive environment. No pressure, just genuine connection!
Click here to join!
Young Visionaries Expressive Art Space
Join us at Young Visionaries, where watercolors and creativity meet mindfulness. Each session is a chance to unwind, explore art, and discover your authentic voice. Through gentle creative expression, we build inner strength while nurturing our community. Come paint, breathe, and grow with us Wednesdays after school at White Plains Library!
Click here to register!
Young Visionaries Expressive Art Space
Join us at Young Visionaries, where watercolors and creativity meet mindfulness. Each session is a chance to unwind, explore art, and discover your authentic voice. Through gentle creative expression, we build inner strength while nurturing our community. Come paint, breathe, and grow with us Wednesdays after school at White Plains Library!
Click here to register!
Earth Day Celebration
Join us for an engaging Earth Day workshop where teens will discover the fascinating world of native plants! Get your hands dirty planting seeds while learning about the medicinal properties and traditional uses of local species. Come grow with us!
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Virtual Member Meeting
Join our Member Meeting: a chill, judgment-free space to hold meaningful conversations, share perspectives, and build social-emotional skills in a supportive environment. No pressure, just genuine connection!
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WYA End of Year Celebration
Teens involved in WYA join together to celebrate your accomplishments and send off our incredible seniors.
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Annual Youth Leadership Forum
Join us for an inspiring youth leadership forum! Open to participants ages 12 and up, this interactive seminar brings together young people from across New York State for engaging team-building activities and dynamic discussion groups. Sponsored by the Association of New York State Youth Bureaus, this event empowers youth to develop leadership skills they can bring back to their communities!
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Virtual Member Meeting
Join our Member Meeting: a chill, judgment-free space to hold meaningful conversations, share perspectives, and build social-emotional skills in a supportive environment. No pressure, just genuine connection!
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Find Your Voice Identity Workshop
Find Your Voice, Create Your World. Discover Your Identity, Embrace Your Power! Join us for a transformative workshop designed to help you explore your true self, unleash your creativity, and make a positive impact on your world!
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38th Annual MLK Educational Seminar and Youth Service Project
Join us in celebrating Dr. King's enduring legacy with our 38th Annual Educational Seminar at the historic Bedford Playhouse. The 2025 theme is, “Civil Rights: Building Tomorrow Together - The Dream Lives On.”
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Keeping the Dream Alive: 55th Annual MLK Interfaith Community Celebration
Join us in celebrating Dr. King's enduring legacy at the landmark 55th Annual MLK Interfaith Community Worship Service and Youth for a Dream Awards Ceremony! The celebration continues on MLK Day, Monday, January 20th, with our 38th Annual Educational Seminar at the historic Bedford Playhouse
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Virtual Member Meeting
Join our Member Meeting: a chill, judgment-free space to hold meaningful conversations, share perspectives, and build social-emotional skills in a supportive environment. No pressure, just genuine connection!
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Holiday Heroes Winter Toy Drive
Join us for our Annual Winter Toy Drive with Toys for Tots Westchester County in Hastings-on-Hudson!
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Virtual Member Meeting
Join our Member Meeting: a chill, judgment-free space to hold meaningful conversations, share perspectives, and build social-emotional skills in a supportive environment. No pressure, just genuine connection!
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Thanksgiving Cooking for a Cause, Part 2
Come to our Annual Thanksgiving Cooking and Interfaith Service Event! Join a grassroots initiative to cook and prepare over 4,000 holiday meals to combat food insecurity.
We will:
Cook, prepare and help organize food
Over 20 local food pantries served
Community service hours granted!
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Thanksgiving Interfaith Cooking and Service Event
Come to our Annual Thanksgiving Cooking and Interfaith Service Event! Join a grassroots initiative to cook and prepare over 4,000 holiday meals to combat food insecurity.
We will:
Cook, prepare and help organize food
Over 20 local food pantries served
Community service hours granted!
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WYA Teen Meetings
Child and School Safety discussion topics: Gun Violence, underfunding in schools, educational inequality, and advocating for quality education. Facilitated by Amber.
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WYA Teen Meetings
Social Media and Mental Health: Teens will dive deeper into the impact of social media and how it affects their mental health by watching clips from the Netflix documentary “The Social Dilemma” followed by discussion.
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WYA Teen Meetings
Join us for biweekly Teen Meetings to discuss topics most important to you!
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Fall Celebration & Fundraiser
Join us, bring your friends - for a fun evening, featuring local band "Funk & Disorderly". This will be a great opportunity to meet our board, engage with WYA’s mission and enjoy an evening of music, food and beverages at the Captain Lawrence Beer Hall and Garden. Teens welcome with an adult.
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End of Summer Bonfire
Come find out about how you can get involved with the Westchester Youth Alliance at our End of Summer Bonfire! We’ll be talking service work, community building & making s’mores!
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Summer Pilot Arts & Activism Workshop
Are you interested in photography and activism? Join us for this two-week photo narrative series with local photographers. Participants will create a photo narrative essay to be displayed at Sleepy Hollow High School throughout the school year.
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End of Year Celebration Dinner
Teens involved in WYA join together to celebrate your accomplishments and send off our incredible seniors.
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Earth Day Park Cleanup
Calling all teens to join us along with Senator Andrea Stewart Cousins youth advisory council and the Westchester Parks Foundation for a spring clean up at Tibbets Brook Park in Yonkers.
Spend the day gathering, gardening, planting and other activities. Stay for a picnic lunch with the Senator.
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Art & Activism: Youth Photo Show
This is the culmination of our Spring Arts and Activism Series. Nine of our WYA members have worked hard since January putting together their own photo narrative series inspired by Gordon Parks.
Come and support WYA Members at this year’s photography showing at the Gordon Parks Museum in Pleasantville!
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WYA Virtual Meeting
Join us at our next WYA Weekly Meeting!
Come and learn about our involvement in the upcoming in the HHREC’s High School Leadership Institute at Iona College!
Come and support our youth facilitators and learn more about the human rights topics that are important to youth in Westchester!
This meeting is open to WYA Members & all local youth interested in getting involved in our community!
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AAS: Portfolio Review & Critique
Meet us at The Pamplemousse Project, a green design café in White Plains that uses revenue to directly support the needs of local nonprofit organizations!
This meeting will serve as the final workshop of our Arts & Activism Series: Portfolio Review. We will review the photos that you have created and select the ones that represent your photo narrative mission and vision.
This meeting is open to WYA Members & all local youth interested in getting involved in our community!
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AAS Workshop: Using Your Voice with local photographer
Join us at our last workshop of the 2024 Arts & Activism Series!
Meet with a local photography expert, José A. Alvarado Jr., and learn how to develop a visual representation of your value-driven goal or mission.
In this workshop you will:
-Identify and conceptualize your values
-Finish creating a visual representation of an advocacy mission statement
-Leave feeling empowered to pursue mission driven goals
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AAS Series: Working Day via Zoom
We'll be gathering via Zoom to review our photo narrative portfolios before the gallery showing next month. This meeting will serve as our first working meeting of our Arts & Activism Series
This meeting is open to WYA Members & all local youth interested in getting involved in our community!
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Art & Activism Series: Portrait v. Self Portrait
Join us at the first workshop of the 2024 Arts & Activism Series.
Meet with a local photography expert and learn how to develop a visual representation of your value-driven goal or mission. In this workshop you will:
- Identify and conceptualize your values
- Begin creating a visual representation of an advocacy mission statement
- Leave feeling empowered to pursue mission driven goals
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Art & Activism Series: Civic Engagement Table Talk with Councilmember Andres Castillo
Meet us at The Pamplemousse Project, a green design cafe in White Plains that uses revenue to directly support the needs of local nonprofit organizations!
We'll be joined by local council member Andres Castillo. This meeting will serve as the second workshop of our Arts & Activism Series: The Importance of Civic Engagement.
This meeting is open to WYA Members & all local youth interested in getting involved in our community!
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Art & Activism Series: What is a photo narrative?
Join us at the first workshop of the 2024 Arts & Activism Series.
Learn how to develop a photo narrative that will serve as a visual representation of your value-driven goal or mission.
In this workshop you will: - Identify and conceptualize your values - Continue creating a visual representation of an advocacy mission statement - Leave feeling empowered to pursue mission driven goals
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Arts & Activism Intro Workshop
Join us at our next WYA Weekly Meeting!
We’ll be starting our 2024 Art & Activism Series by unpacking advocacy themes learned from last weekend’s film screening of “A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks”. Specifically focusing on advocacy topics that will prepare us for this year’s 6-week photo narrative series
This meeting is open to WYA Members & all local youth interested in getting involved in our community!
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2024 Arts & Activism Film Screening
WYA presents a community movie screening of the movie “A Choice of Weapons - The Life and Legacy of the Remarkable Gordon Parks”.
This event will kick off our Art & workshop series, in which youth will engage with advocacy and leadership themes depicted in the movie and develop their own local advocacy project.
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WYA Virtual Meeting
Curious about WYA and don't know how to join? Already a member feeling reinvigorated this New Year?
This virtual meeting is the perfect time to jump back in, find out what we've been up to and what we've got planned for 2024!
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Winter Toy Drive
Join us in December for our Winter Toy Drive with Toys for Tots Westchester County in Hastings-on-Hudson!
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Upcoming Events
The WYA is a committee of teens from youth groups all over Westchester. We come together to put on effective youth-led peer education and service events.
We have a couple of end of summer, early fall events that you can check out above.
If you are interested in attending any of our upcoming events please click the image above to register or follow us on social media :
instagram: @wya_ny
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WestchesterYouthAlliance/
Save the Date:
8/28: WYA Bonfire & Interest Meeting @ Rockefeller State Park
9/11: Service Event @ Hilltop Hanover Farms
10/22: Bedford Mental Health Fair
Youth-led discussion in person and via zoom every Sunday @ 5PM
Please register for events ahead of time using the event links above.
For more information contact our Program Director, Chloe Fernandez at pd@westchesteryouthalliance.org
How to get involved
We are a year around program but our opportunities vary depending on the season. We’re looking for high school youth to lead exciting and dynamic community projects this fall through spring 2023
Fall Programming: Weekly zoom meeting every Sunday starting with Fall Orientation this August 28tht @ Ward Pound Ridge Reservation
Find more details under “upcoming events” in the “events” section