Area 2 of 8

Our Young People

A building is not the same as a resource.

5 commitments1 in the first 90 days1 I can do alone

The problem

Ashburn has a youth resource center. Having a building is not the same as having something running inside it. Meanwhile child poverty in Turner County is moving the wrong direction: 846 children under 18 in 2024, up from 735 in 2020. These are the years a young person decides whether there is anything here for them.

What the city actually controls

Not the school system. But the city controls the hours around school — after 3:30, summer, weekends — plus the youth center, park programming, and park lighting. That is a whole lot of a childhood.

I want a kid from here to stand up in a room full of strangers, say what they want to be, say where they're from, and be proud of both.

Commitments

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