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(Friday, June 19, 2015)
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The National Urban League’s Youth Leadership Summit is the annual culminating event for all National Urban League Education and Youth Development programs and reinforces the goals and practices of the
affiliates’ work with middle- and high school-aged youth.
For more than 20 years, the Summit has brought together up to 500 youth and their chaperones from communities served by Urban League Affiliates across the country. This five-day event immerses young people in a college setting to provide them with a unique educational and development experience, focused on important skills for success in college, work and life. While youth participants learn to navigate the college experience,
affiliate program staff and chaperones are provided with structured professional development and capacity building workshops.
Held in July, the annual Youth Leadership Summit coincides with the National Urban League Annual Conference to further provide young people with a deeper connection to the legacy of the Urban League movement.
Past Youth Leadership Summit host sites have included:
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Columbia University
- Howard University
- Indiana University-Bloomington
- Northeastern University
- Spelman College
- Temple University
- Texas Southern University
- Tulane University
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of Illinois Chicago
- University of Maryland College Park
Services include counseling on basic tenant and landlord rights. Other counseling topics in this area are:
- Eviction and unlawful detainer action
- Deposit returns
- Habitability issues
- Getting repairs done
- Mediation of tenant / landlord disputes
- Assisting tenant organizations
- Legal counseling referrals
- Pre-rental counseling
Pre-Purchase/Home buying includes one-on-one and group counseling in the following areas:
- evaluating mortgagor readiness
- fair housing education
- budgeting for mortgage payment
- finding alternative sources of credit
- money management
- identifying and avoiding predatory lending practices
- learning how to purchase a home using the Section 8 Homeownership Voucher Program.
Participants must complete eight to twelve course hours of counseling. A Homebuyers Certificate is received at the end of counseling sessions.
Potential homebuyers benefit from the workshops geared to provide all the information needed to become a successful homeowner.
Homebuyer Education seminars are supported by various funding sources including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as well as various local, regional, and national financial services institutions.
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