Agenda

Introductions

Icebreaker

MYC Structure

Policy Development

Seattle and Future Steps

Stand Up/ Sit Down

MYC Structure

Multnomah Youth Commission

• Official Youth Policy body for Multnomah County and City of Portland, OR

• Up to 42 youth ages 13-21

• Our Bill of Rights: Children+Youth = official document; guides policy work

Our Committees

• Education/Youth Voice

• Sustainability

• Youth Against Violence

Sustainability

• Focused on YouthPass since 2007

• Guided by articles II and VI of BOR

Children+Youth; access to

education, extracurricular activities,

and recreational activities

YouthPass

• Free transit pass during school

year for Portland Public School

District high school

students (14,000)

• Funded

• 1/3 Portland public schools

• 1/3 City of Portland

• 1/3 TriMet (Regional transit service)

• 6 Districts in Portland/Multnomah County- only 1 has YouthPass

Youth-Adult Partnership

• A group of youth and adults working together on

important community issues

• Assumes youth have the right and capacity to

participate in decisions that impact their lives

• Assumes mutual learning between youth and adults

Partnerships and Work Model

MYC

OPAL PSU

CAPSTONE

Policy Development through YPAR

1. Identify Problem

2. Research

3. Analyze

4. Action

Policy Development through YPAR

1. Identify Problem: Youth don’t have equitable

access to transit throughout the city

2. Research: Focus groups to find out more about

their issues

3. Analyze: CAPSTONE- finding common themes

4. Action: Policy recommendations and summit

Transit Justice Policy Recommendations

Equity and Empowerment Lens for Policy Making

by TriMet

Fares

Policing

Service / Routes

Youth Safety

Outcomes and Current Work

First summit

Policy Recommendations

Second Summit

CAPSTONE> further data collection and analysis

Elected officials/Community leaders

Larger YouthPass campaign

Transit Justice and Active Transportation

• 2014-15 – Deepening work w/ BTA and SRTS

• Goal into future: Build a stronger relationship in our

region between TJ work and active transportation

work in order to support each other’s efforts.

• National Youth Bike Summit- Seattle Feb 2015

Youth Bike Summit –Seattle WA

• MYC, BTA, SRTS and CCC went on a road trip

• We presented workshops on transit justice 101 and

advocating for what you want

• Exposed ourselves to the bike activist world to see

where we intersected

and how we could

support each other

Next Steps

• To be determined…

Adriana Rangel-Ponce and Lashawn McCarthy