5. Multnomah Youth Commission
• Official Youth Policy body for Multnomah County and City of Portland, OR
• Up to 42 youth ages 13-21
• Our Bill of Rights: Children+Youth = official document; guides policy work
7. Sustainability
• Focused on YouthPass since 2007
• Guided by articles II and VI of BOR
Children+Youth; access to
education, extracurricular activities,
and recreational activities
8. YouthPass
• Free transit pass during school
year for Portland Public School
District high school
students (14,000)
• Funded
• 1/3 Portland public schools
• 1/3 City of Portland
• 1/3 TriMet (Regional transit service)
• 6 Districts in Portland/Multnomah County- only 1 has
YouthPass
9. Youth-Adult Partnership
• A group of youth and adults working together on
important community issues
• Assumes youth have the right and capacity to
participate in decisions that impact their lives
• Assumes mutual learning between youth and adults
12. Policy Development through YPAR
1. Identify Problem: Youth don’t have equitable
access to transit throughout the city
2. Research: Focus groups to find out more about
their issues
3. Analyze: CAPSTONE- finding common themes
4. Action: Policy recommendations and summit
13. Transit Justice Policy Recommendations
Equity and Empowerment Lens for Policy Making
by TriMet
Fares
Policing
Service / Routes
Youth Safety
14. Outcomes and Current Work
First summit
Policy Recommendations
Second Summit
CAPSTONE> further data collection and analysis
Elected officials/Community leaders
Larger YouthPass campaign
15. Transit Justice and Active Transportation
• 2014-15 – Deepening work w/ BTA and SRTS
• Goal into future: Build a stronger relationship in our
region between TJ work and active transportation
work in order to support each other’s efforts.
• National Youth Bike Summit- Seattle Feb 2015
16. Youth Bike Summit –Seattle WA
• MYC, BTA, SRTS and CCC went on a road trip
• We presented workshops on transit justice 101 and
advocating for what you want
• Exposed ourselves to the bike activist world to see
where we intersected
and how we could
support each other