Youth Community Organizing

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Youth Power is People Power

Deep Center works to organize, support, and build power amongst a broad coalition of everyday people, community stakeholders, faith communities, unlikely allies, working-class youth and families from communities of color and other marginalized communities to build awareness, critical literacy, networks, power, and skills to lift up young people as social justice leaders, artists, and advocates to transform Chatham County’s and Georgia’s juvenile and criminal justice systems. And nowhere is that leadership more apparent than in our youth community organizers.

The youth community organizing team knocking doors in East Savannah

All across Savannah, young people enter into the working of youth cultural organizing, learning first-hand how to transform their lived experience into civic and cultural change. Led by a staff youth community organizer, youth organizers learn how  to build community power in Chatham County, specifically among youth and young adults, ages 17-26, and focus on social justice advocacy. We train community members who may find themselves in local highschools, colleges, or in other environments, to understand and advocate for administrative and legislative policies that will benefit their communities, with a focus on juvenile and criminal justice reform, voter education and empowerment, and civil rights.

Organize with Us

At Deep Center, we want you and your village to have more power to say what your community looks like and how your government responds to your needs. We’re focusing on state legislation in this moment—as it is being actively created, heard, and passed—by building this toolkit to help you amplify your voice and strengthen the work of existing organizing efforts in Savannah.

To get involved, contact youth community organizer socks@deepcenter.org