Core Program Cohort

The Service Board

A four-month youth leadership program combining social justice workshops twice weekly with service learning projects and community activities for high school students.

ProgramsSeattle

About this opportunity

Each year, the Service Board brings together a group of high school students and adult mentors from diverse academic, racial, cultural and economic backgrounds to engage in the Core Program. Program participants meet twice weekly from late January through mid-May. Weekday workshops focus on engaging discussions encompassing a broad range of social justice topics. Weekend activities rotate between intensive service learning projects and snowboarding. The program emphasizes youth voice, supportive community and promoting positive risk-taking to build youth leadership skills. Music, snowballs, fresh food and a sense of community are the common threads that tie the program together.

Requirements

2026 cohort application is closed; join interest list for next year's application

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