YOUTH PROGRAMS
CAE’s Youth Programs provides skills and tools to support young people in New York City to actively prevent, disrupt and help heal from violence while supporting them through the current youth issues that they face in their day to day lives.
We offer two programs that cater to young girls and teens, both cis and trans and gender expansive youth.
CAE staff also provide workshops for adults who interface with youth -ex : teachers, social service workers and parents.
Request a Workshop for your School or Community
Workshops can be customized and developed according to your needs. Click below to learn more and make a request.
PACT Activists
The Center for Anti-Violence Education works to dismantle and disrupt acts of violence in communities that experience xenophobia and all forms of racism through community programming and empowerment self defense practices. Our PACT Program, which stands for, Power, Action, Change for Teens, is our youth-based program that offers these same skills and tools for pre-teens and teens. PACT Activist is our high school level youth program. It is an incredible opportunity for teen girls and gender expansive and gender non-conforming youth to learn skills and tools through empowered self defense work and social justice practice in their community.
✨Start date: Monday, January 8th!
✨Deadline for our application is December 1st. First come, first serve. Space is limited.
✨Accepted students will have the opportunity to receive either community service credit or an end-of-program stipend.
✨Please feel free to distribute the flyer to anyone you think may be interested and email our program at youth@caeny.org or Georgina Pierre-Louis, the Youth Program Manager at georgina@caeny.org with any questions.
✨Register HERE
Peer Educators
In this stipended internship you'll strengthen your leadership skills and tools to become a Peer Educator during 2024 academic year and teach Upstander and Empowerment Self Defense to other young people throughout NYC & beyond!
Meets twice a month on Fridays from 4-6PM
Location: 30 3rd Ave, Brooklyn NY 11217
Open to NYC teen girls & gender expansive youth in grades 9 and above.
Click here to learn more and apply!
Youth Voices Unite: A Sex Education Convening Sign Up Form
Join the CAE Peer Educators' Sex Education Convening happening on Thursday, June 13th from 4:30-6:30pm. The Convening will be taking place at the YWCA Brooklyn: 30 3rd Ave Brooklyn NY 11217. Open to youth ages 15 and above!
This youth led gathering is created by youth for youth to discuss and learn more about how we currently access sex education in NYC. We will have educational discussions, resources, arts and crafts, an empowerment self defense demo for all attendees and an open mic! Light snacks and beverages will also be available. Menstrual hygienic products will also be distributed!
To confirm your attendance please complete the registration
Youth Anti-Violence Internship
✨🌈 CAE’s Youth Anti-Violence Summer Internship is now LIVE 🍉🌈
🌞 Registration deadline: June 28th, 2024 🌞
A stipended💰5-week summer opportunity open to teens girls and gender expansive youth in NYC grades 8 and above! Develop the skills and tools to facilitate anti-violence trainings (Self Defense👊🏾and Upstander🗣) to peers and other young people throughout NYC. Through this internship you'll also be able to engage in community care practices, explore NYC and co-create a community with CAE's youth team and teens like you ❣️
Space is limited, register here
Questions? Email Jasmín at jasmin@caeny.org / (347) 285-7505.