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Deadline to Apply for 2023 Youth Leadership Forum for Students with Disabilities Extended to 03/17/23


Applications for the 2023 California Youth Leadership Forum for Students with Disabilities (YLF) are now due Friday, March 17, 2023. 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 seven-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 2023 YLF is tentatively on July 13-19, 2023 YLF and will be held partly virtually and partly in-person. 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. This is a competitive process and not all students will be selected. Applicants must be sophomores, juniors or seniors during the 2022-23 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 was extended to March 17, 2023.

The 2023 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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