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ATPT Youth Outreach

Young people don't just get a seat. They help shape the table.

Youth Outreach is where service, leadership, ideas, and community action meet. Young people are not being brought in to stand on the sidelines — they are helping prepare, organize, serve, represent the mission, and build relationships with community partners.

Youth Outreach in action

This is not a future idea. It is happening now.

Our youth team is already in the community meeting people, helping prepare supplies, serving alongside adults, learning how partnerships work, and helping shape what ATPT Youth Outreach becomes next. The point is not to create a youth program that looks good on paper. The point is to put young people close enough to the work that leadership becomes real.

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Youth Outreach · In the community
ATPT youth leadership with Hollywood Church of Christ community partners
Community partnership · Youth leadershipZora is in the room because youth belong in the work.

Youth leadership in partnership

From the church table to the street.

ATPT is working to build an ongoing partnership with Hollywood Church of Christ around the last Sunday of each month. The vision is simple: bring young people, volunteers, church members, and ATPT together to prepare for service, then take that service directly into the community.

For Youth Outreach, that creates something bigger than a one-day volunteer opportunity. It creates a recurring place to learn leadership, teamwork, preparation, communication, and what consistent community service actually looks like.

Proposed rhythm · Last Sunday of each month
Not a mascot. Not a photo-op. A working role.

Zora is helping connect planning, creative engagement, youth voice, community relationships, and service into one lane young people can actually own.

ATPT youth outreach planning meeting with Zora, Director of Youth OutreachYouth leadership · Community action

Youth leadership

Meet Zora.

Director of Youth Outreach and Creative Engagement

Zora is helping shape ATPT's youth outreach from the beginning — bringing a young person's perspective into planning, service projects, community engagement, creative work, partnership-building, and the conversations that determine what comes next.

This is not a ceremonial title. She is being asked to show up, think, contribute, create, represent the youth lane, and help build work that other young people will actually want to join.

Service becomes leadership when the responsibility is real. Leadership becomes ownership when the voice is real.

What youth outreach means here

Not busywork. Real participation.

Bring ideas

Youth members help identify issues, propose projects, and shape what the program becomes.

Lead outreach

Learn how to communicate a mission, engage the public, recruit support, and represent the work with confidence.

Build community

Create service projects that bring young people together around practical work and shared responsibility.

Make connections

Work with schools, markets, nonprofits, artists, local leaders, and neighborhood partners.

The bigger idea

Service becomes leadership when the responsibility is real. Leadership becomes ownership when the voice is real.

ATPT Youth Outreach is designed to grow with the young people inside it. We start with service and conversation, then build projects from what youth see, question, create, and care enough to change.

Where this can go

Schools. Service. Media. Youth voice.

We are building toward school partnerships, youth-led service projects, interviews and media, leadership development, and opportunities for young people to create something they can call their own.

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Youth Gear

Wear the youth lane.

Bold gear for a bold program. Youth Outreach has its own visual identity built around leadership, service, community, and youth voice.

See Youth Gear

Bring something to the table

Help build the youth table.

Young people, parents, educators, community organizations, artists, mentors, and supporters all have a role to play.