• Home
  • The Mission
    • Impact
  • Facts
    • Toolkits!
    • Public Health and Gun Violence
    • Educational Interview with KUT reporters
    • A Study Abroad Reflection on Gun Policy
  • Get involved
    • Our youth council
  • Digital Gallery
    • The Youth GVA Art Gallery
  • Teens take on policy
    • Background Checks
    • Campus Carry
    • Open Carry Procedures
    • Firearm procedures: private property
    • Notable gun-related Supreme Court cases
    • Safe Storage
    • Joe Biden and Gun Violence
    • Gun Violence: US vs Japan
    • School Safety Laws
    • Gun Violence: US vs Nigeria
  • Home
  • The Mission
    • Impact
  • Facts
    • Toolkits!
    • Public Health and Gun Violence
    • Educational Interview with KUT reporters
    • A Study Abroad Reflection on Gun Policy
  • Get involved
    • Our youth council
  • Digital Gallery
    • The Youth GVA Art Gallery
  • Teens take on policy
    • Background Checks
    • Campus Carry
    • Open Carry Procedures
    • Firearm procedures: private property
    • Notable gun-related Supreme Court cases
    • Safe Storage
    • Joe Biden and Gun Violence
    • Gun Violence: US vs Japan
    • School Safety Laws
    • Gun Violence: US vs Nigeria
YOUTH GVA
  • Home
  • The Mission
    • Impact
  • Facts
    • Toolkits!
    • Public Health and Gun Violence
    • Educational Interview with KUT reporters
    • A Study Abroad Reflection on Gun Policy
  • Get involved
    • Our youth council
  • Digital Gallery
    • The Youth GVA Art Gallery
  • Teens take on policy
    • Background Checks
    • Campus Carry
    • Open Carry Procedures
    • Firearm procedures: private property
    • Notable gun-related Supreme Court cases
    • Safe Storage
    • Joe Biden and Gun Violence
    • Gun Violence: US vs Japan
    • School Safety Laws
    • Gun Violence: US vs Nigeria

Here at Youth GVA, we value community engagement and outreach. 

Individuals reached on social media pages
Individuals reached on the youth GVA website

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​Connection with AISD school district positions, and serving as a resource on the AISD website
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Written and distributed 11+ policy reports to educate youth on local and statewide policies that affect them.
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Cooperation with local and national gun sense groups to promote educational campaigns and advocacy. Groups: TX Gun Sense, GVpedia
Hosted in person gallery event to advocate for policy change through art featuring a yearlong culmination of 7 advocacy works.

Generated 9 advocacy artworks, and created multiple posters to aid Texas Gun Sense in statewide advocacy day. 

​Created comprehensive letter writing toolkit for youth to access to write letters to their representatives. 

​Created Parent Guide to Gun Safety Toolkit, distributed to 100+ contacts.
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Represented Youth/ high school voice on official planning committee for TX advocacy day, working to bring youth to the capitol in 2025. 
Featured on KUT Austin news for role in mobilizing youth amidst a rising trend of gun violence threats and in Voyage Austin Magazine
At Texas Advocacy Day on February 27th, 2025, Youth GVA hosted our very own art instillation activity, known as Mosaic of voices. This project, created out of a simple dream to maximize youth involvement at a political advocacy event, allowed for youth, advocates, legislators and everyone in between to participate in a moment of pause and express themselves regarding the gun violence epidemic in Texas. 
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