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Youth Led Coalition How Students Are Making aDifference In Cincinnati, 8th through 12th grade students come to UMADAOP to participate in a community-action based program, Youth Led Coalition. The program is year-round and involves students strategizing, organizing, and executing plans that improve their communities, and occasionally communities far away. Since it is the students choosing how and where to lend aid, one Youth Led Coalition initiative was goaled with serving families harmed by the Flint water crisis.The team created their own gofundme.com page, which they used to raise 2,500 dollars in support! This student-raised funding purchased bottled water, water filters, and baby wipes for those afflicted by the cause. The program provokes students to ask what differences they would like to participate in fulfilling. It allows decisions to be made, initiatives to be tackled, and tangible differences to be seen. The program also teaches about the dangers of drug usage. While teams serve their neighborhoods, they also learn how to avoid falling into harmful traps caused by substance abuse.

The team created their own gofundme.com page, which they used to raise 2,500 dollars in support!

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