Build Appalachian Youth Power at the STAY Summer Institute!
The STAY (Stay Together Appalachian Youth) Project will host the STAY Summer Institute on August 9-12 at the beautiful Pine Mountain Settlement School in Harlan County.
KFTC will be support a delegation of young east Kentucky leaders to attend the Institute and bring the experience and training back to their local chapters and KFTC’s statewide work.
If you are interested in attending as a youth or providing a youth scholarship as an adult ally, contact Tanya@kftc.org by Wednesday, July 27th.
The STAY Project (Stay Together Appalachian Youth) is a diverse regional network of young people throughout Central Appalachia who are working together to advocate for and actively participate in their home mountain communities.
This project began in 2007 at an Appalachian Studies conference, when youth participants expressed that they didn’t know how to participate in movements for social change, that there were few access points for them as young people, and few opportunities to develop the skills and knowledge that would allow them to contribute to social change efforts. These young participants created the STAY Project.
Now, almost five years later, its network of members and regional gatherings create avenues for young people to educate themselves, find voice, and nurture political power, in their own communities of West Virginia, southwest Virginia, eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina.
The STAY Project is currently a consortium supported by Appalshop’s Appalachian Media Institute in Whitesburg, KY, High Rocks in Hillsboro, WV, and the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, TN.
