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Call on Congress to Fund FYCA
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CALL ON CONGRESS TO FUND FYCA
We are continuing to work with Congress to appropriate funding to allow the Federal Youth Development Council to begin its work. At the local level, networks and affiliates have done a spectacular job thanking Congress for passing FYCA, generating nearly 1,000 messages, and contacting almost every member of Congress.
Please mobilize your grassroots to help us keep the momentum going. Tell your Representative and Senators how funding the Youth Development Council will benefit youth nationwide. Take action by following this link to the Youth Policy Action Center: www.capwiz.com/mobilize/issues/alert/?alertid=9784226&type=CO
BI-PARTISAN CONGRESSIONAL SUPPORT FOR FUNDING FYCA
Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Norm Coleman (R-MN) and Representatives Steve Cohen (D-TN), Donald Payne (D-NJ), John Lewis (D-GA), Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD), Betty Sutton (D-OH), Mark Udall (D-CO), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), and Bart Gordon (D-TN) sent letters of support to appropriators, requesting that FYCA receive $1 million in funding so that the Federal Youth Development Council may begin its work.
Be sure to thank Members of Congress for their support!
View the National Collaboration for Youth's FYCA funding request
WAYS & MEANS SUBCOMMITTEE EXAMINES "DISCONNECTED YOUTH'
National Collaboration for Youth member organization CEOs, Presidents and Executive Directors submit testimony to the House of Representatives Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, discussing the need to implement FYCA as a way to address the needs of disconnected youth. Read the NCY testimony by clicking here.
More NEWS
The Federal Youth Coordination Act (H.R. 856/S. 409) was introduced on February 16, 2005, by Rep. Tom Osborne (R-NE) and Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) and the original co-sponsors were Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Mike DeWine (R-OH), and Representatives Donald Payne (D-NJ), Harold Ford (D-TN), and Pete Hoekstra (R-MI).
This bipartisan legislation was drafted in partnership with National Collaboration for Youth member organizations and is a response to a report issued by the White House Task Force for Disadvantaged Youth in December 2003. The Task Force found that programs to meet the needs of young people are spread across 12 federal departments with little communication or coordination among them.
Currently, there are federal funding streams designed to meet varying needs of youth-afterschool programs, job training, mental health, etc.-but they are administered in silos, independent of one another. Youth's needs, however, are complex and interdependent. FYCA establishes a Federal Youth Development Council that will enable the federal government to implement multifaceted approaches to reaching youth by leveraging and coordinating the existing resources of different federal agencies.
UPDATED! October 17, 2006
Summary of Federal Youth Coordination Act (as passed into law)
Impact of the Federal Youth Coordination Act
To see the press release from the press conference to introduce the bill, click here.
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