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Advance Youth Leadership Power (AYLP)
AYLP is an
advocacy group of young people with disabilities between the ages of 18 and 30. It meets weekly at
Access Living on Tuesdays from 4 to 6 pm.
AYLP members are
generally youth who have received leadership training at Access Living and understand the basics of grassroots
organizing. They use grassroots organizing techniques to press for social change.
AYLP is most well
known for their 2006 campaign to revoke a massive budget cut in special education teachers and aides in
Chicago. As a result, AYLP won the first ever Kick Ass Advocacy Award from Access Living, presented by
the founder of Access Living's Youth and Education Team, Sarah Triano.
AYLP is currently in the process of developing leadership and
self-advocacy workshop presentations for high school students with disabilities.
For more information about AYLP, to get involved, or to request a speaker, please
contact:
Jody Thomas (773) 261-6467
Juvenal Calderon (773) 330-9062
Jose Ocampo, AYLP (Winner of a 2007
Advocate of the Year Award from Progress Center!)
(708) 656-3826
Amber Smock, Access Living
(312) 640-2191
asmock@accessliving.org
AYLP hosted a Halloween Party in 2007. For pictures, click here.
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