Our Approach

The National Collaborative for Transformative Youth Policy seeks transformative policy and systems change for youth and young adults, prioritizing young people ages 16-25. We center the needs and leadership of young people who have been most impacted by oppressive systems of power, historic and on-going policy violence, and systemic marginalization. We believe that by centering the experiences of these young people, we will achieve more just systems and better outcomes for all young people.

Our Approach

We bring together policy, advocacy, and activism under one roof in service of transformational change.
We conduct policy analysis and advocacy in close collaborative partnership with young people; striving towards the top rungs of Hart's ladder of participation.
We integrate organizing principles and strategies into policy work.

We are unique in the national youth policy field for:

Our multi-issue focus: Unlike single issue organizations, we build policy expertise across a cross-cutting, holistic set of content areas.
Our multi-level strategy: we believe that there are opportunities for transformational policy change at the federal, state, and local level; pursuing change at the level that is most strategic.
Our ability to couple vision with execution: We are field leaders both in leading visionary conversations and strategizing to advance our north star by asking for what young people deserve, not what we think we can get, and engage young people every step of the way.