Early last month, the Greenbelt Youth Advisory Committee traveled to Washington, D.C. to participate as youth delegates in the National League of Cities’ (NLC) Congressional City Conference. This annual event hosts city councils from around the country as they share issues relevant to their localities and their consequent solutions, in the hopes that they can return to their cities with a wealth of information that can be used to better serve their communities. As the city councils convene, a similar conference is held between the youth councils from those cities. This year, the threeday event was attended by youth councils from 21 different states. Greenbelt Youth Advisory Committee Trip to D.C. by Jeremy Woodruff Tuthill The first day of the conference saw several discussions of the most pertinent issues facing the young people in their community. The topics discussed included ways to get funding for council endeavors, approaches for getting more young people involved in municipal politics and ideas for new initiatives in the youth delegates’ respective cities. Read all about it in the paper. Click Here
Greenbelt Youth Advisory Committee Trip to D.C.
Committee members from left to right are Jeremy Tuthill, Fahmi Abadir, Ema Smith, and Hunter Whaples.
Photo by Alison Longworth