Make a difference AND some money.
The Ohio Youth Leadership Summit is a paid opportunity through which young people ages 18-29 empower themselves personally and politically. As a participant, you can earn cash while boosting your resume, developing leadership and community organizing skills, and learning how to have the awkward conversations that protect your personal health.
Learn how to:
- Host a Safer Party using harm reduction skills
- Address racism, poverty, and HIV stigma in your community
- Recognize and prevent STIs
The commitment
The 2024 Ohio Youth Leadership Summit will take place at the Mohican Lodge & Conference Center in Perrysville, OH, August 2 – 4.
Our 2024 Theme | Love & Liberation in Action
Love
A strong feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection.
Liberation
The act of setting someone free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression. The act or fact of gaining equal rights or full social or economic opportunities for a particular group.
Love & Liberation. Can one exist without the other?
Love has great interest. Interest seeks wellbeing. Wellbeing seeks relief and freedom. Freedom seeks to liberate.
Liberation strives to equip and educate; to lend tools to help navigate an oppressive world with the inherent dignity we are all born with. We can dismantle oppression’s power when we prioritize the dignity of our communities and ourselves. This is how we nurture liberation, for self, for each other. It is how we engage in the highest form of love.
Please join us this year at the Ohio Youth Leadership Summit (OYLS) to explore and mobilize our communities in Love & Liberation.