Bring ideas
Youth members help identify issues, propose projects, and shape what the program becomes.
ATPT Youth Outreach
Young people don't just get a seat. They help shape the table.
Youth Outreach is where service, leadership, ideas, and community action meet. Young people are not being brought in to stand on the sidelines — they are helping prepare, organize, serve, represent the mission, and build relationships with community partners.
Youth Outreach in action
This is not a future idea. It is happening now.
Our youth team is already in the community meeting people, helping prepare supplies, serving alongside adults, learning how partnerships work, and helping shape what ATPT Youth Outreach becomes next. The point is not to create a youth program that looks good on paper. The point is to put young people close enough to the work that leadership becomes real.
Real conversationsCommunity serviceYouth leadership
Youth Outreach · In the community
Youth leadership in partnership
From the church table to the street.
ATPT was grateful to join Hollywood Church of Christ for a Service Sunday and give Zora a chance to be part of a real community relationship in action. HCC's Service Sundays take different forms, including projects such as neighborhood cleanups and other practical ways of serving.
We're continuing the conversation and brainstorming future opportunities to serve together. For Youth Outreach, experiences like this create a real place to learn leadership, teamwork, communication, and how community organizations build relationships responsibly.
Relationship growing · Future service ideas being explored
Not a mascot. Not a photo-op. A working role.
Zora is helping connect planning, creative engagement, youth voice, community relationships, and service into one lane young people can actually own.
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Meet Zora.
Director of Youth Outreach and Creative Engagement
Zora is helping shape ATPT's youth outreach from the beginning — bringing a young person's perspective into planning, service projects, community engagement, creative work, partnership-building, and the conversations that determine what comes next.
This is not a ceremonial title. She is being asked to show up, think, contribute, create, represent the youth lane, and help build work that other young people will actually want to join.
Service becomes leadership when the responsibility is real. Leadership becomes ownership when the voice is real.
What youth outreach means here
Not busywork. Real participation.
Lead outreach
Learn how to communicate a mission, engage the public, recruit support, and represent the work with confidence.
Build community
Create service projects that bring young people together around practical work and shared responsibility.
Make connections
Work with schools, markets, nonprofits, artists, local leaders, and neighborhood partners.
The bigger idea
Service becomes leadership when the responsibility is real. Leadership becomes ownership when the voice is real.
ATPT Youth Outreach is designed to grow with the young people inside it. We start with service and conversation, then build projects from what youth see, question, create, and care enough to change.
Where this can go
Schools. Service. Media. Youth voice.
One of those doors is already open. Sequoyah School has cleared At The People's Table as Zora's internship host through its Social Innovation Program. That gives her a real school-connected lane to grow through community service, organizational learning, leadership, creative engagement, and hands-on responsibility while helping ATPT build what comes next.
Bring something to the table
Help build the youth table.
Young people, parents, educators, community organizations, artists, mentors, and supporters all have a role to play.