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Youth Legislative Summit
The Minnesota Youth Legislative Summit
has a simple goal--if the state legislature is going to pass laws that
affect kids, then it should ask kids what they think about those laws.
Young people need to be involved in solving society's problems of
violence because their experience--the experience of being young people
who are sometimes at the heart of the problem as well as the solution--is
unique and important. Each year, the Minnesota Youth Legislative
Summit brings together 200 young people from all walks of life and all
corners of the state. They get involved in the lawmaking process
by studying an actual bill aimed at a problem that directly concerns them.
They develop an understanding of the problem from multiple perspectives
and analyze the impact of the bill on their communities. They take
the lessons they learn to the State Capitol for the day of the Youth Summit
where they present their findings and make recommendations to a special
committee of legislators.
The Minnesota Youth Legislative Summit
is partially supported by a small declining grant from the U.S. Department
of Justice,
Office of Juvenile Justice
and Delinquency Prevention, which has for many years supported learning
about the law as an effective delinquency prevention method. The
Summit also receives financial support from the Minnesota Legislature.
The co-sponsors of the 1999 Minnesota Youth Legislative Summit were:
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