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Deadline to Apply for 2021 Virtual Youth Leadership Forum for Students with Disabilities is 12/18


The California Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities (CCEPD) is now accepting applications for the 2021 Virtual Youth Leadership Forum for Students with Disabilities (YLF). Develop your leadership skills, and learn how to reach your academic, career and independence goals...and make new lifetime friends. Talk with policy makers and educate them on ways they can improve the lives of young people with disabilities.

YLF is a six-day summer self-advocacy and leadership development program for students with disabilities, which includes post-YLF workshops after the weeklong event (workshop dates and times to be determined). The 2021 YLF is tentatively on July 11-16, 2021 virtually using the Zoom platform. If it is safe to do so, and pending budget availability, part of the YLF may be in-person in Sacramento. All selected delegate’s expenses are sponsored through a public-private partnership.

Students must complete an application, write an essay and provide letters of recommendations. Students will also be interviewed by a YLF partner team in their local communities. This is a competitive process and not all students will be selected. Applicants must be sophomores, juniors or seniors during the 2020-21 school year ending by June 30 to be eligible to apply.

YLF applications must be completed electronically and emailed to ylf@dor.ca.gov. The deadline to apply is December 18, 2020.

The 2021 application and related documents, including an outreach flyer, can be found at https://www.dor.ca.gov/Home/YLF.

For other questions, please call the CCEPD office at 855.894.3436 or e-mail at YLF@dor.ca.gov.

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