The National Youth Summit

The  National Youth Summit on Education, Justice, and Leadership

For more details regarding The National Youth Summit  VISIT US AT  www.TheNYS.org

CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED IN AND SUPPORTED THE NATIONAL YOUTH SUMMITS

2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

 Thank you for your support and making TheNYS a resounding success.

Celebrating excellence. Expecting success.

The National Youth Summit on Education, Justice, and Leadership began as a collaboration between The Ethics Project, The St. Louis Public Schools, and The University of Missouri St. Louis (UMSL)  in consultation with The US Department of Justice. It is designed to bring together intellectually gifted student leaders from cities across the United States to work together with national experts in education, social justice, and business and economics. Sixteen hundred selected junior and senior high school students from diverse backgrounds will spend three intensive days working with business leaders, college professors, judges, legislators, legal experts, law students, and social justice experts examining our current educational systems, methods of discipline and the United States’ dependence on prison income. They will think through alternatives to incarceration, means of eliminating the school to prison pipeline and will devise methods of increasing student retention, engagement, and achievement.

With an ever-increasing rise in student suspensions, dropout rates, school violence, teacher burnout, mental health issues and arrest and convictions of youth, The National Youth Summit is designed to raise awareness of challenges facing the youth of today and to change the conversation to focus on academic excellence, the inherent talents of our youth and the talents and commitment of thousands of educators and community leaders. We are celebrating the excellence we know our youth can achieve and we expect them to succeed.

Be a part of the celebration. Help us help them succeed.

Your donation in any amount will help change the trajectory of our youth. With the help of professors and administrators from 12 universities, judges, non-profit heads, community leaders, and the faith community, we are determined to change a destructive path of the school to prison pipeline to a path of academic excellence, student achievement and a resurgence of safe and creative learning environments. We’re claiming our youth and taking back our schools. Please join us on this historic and exhilarating journey. We want everyone to be a part. Just click the Donate button below to donate safely and securely in any amount that works for you.

Suggested donations:

$100 Sponsor a student

$100 Contribute to scholarships to one of 12 universities

$50 Provide selected books

$25 Provide a Summit backpack and supplies

$10 Sponsor Supplies (pens, notebook, reusable water bottle)

$5 Provide a student snack pack

$2 Provide a Power Bar and fruit

Thank you for your support!