Showcase Group Youth Advocates are an integral component of our Advocacy work, as they facilitate relationships between community resources and our participants. Our Youth Advocates are mostly volunteers who serve as agents of social change, helping us to propel our participants forward. Youth Advocates provide support and encouragement to our participants by offering resources, expertise, and job or internship opportunities once trained with our organization. Join us for our next Youth Advocate Orientation!
SG cultivates deep, intentional, and lasting relationships with participants. Together with Youth Advocates and program staff, we form an unrelenting tribe of supporters around each participant and become a source of consistency, stability, motivation, and encouragement. Youth Advocates engage participants in the typical activities you would expect from any role model or supportive adult. They can give rides to appointments, accompany a participant as he/she enrolls in school, attend a community event or sports game, help with homework, offer advice on relationships, or go out for a meal or coffee break. Youth Advocates also troubleshoot and help participants navigate real challenges that may come up related to school, court matters, housing, wellbeing and healthcare. While Youth Advocates schedule independent one-on-one activities with participants, the Showcase Group will also host regularly scheduled SWAG Bag Initiative activities.
Through participating in the SWAG Bag Initiative, Youth Advocates grow personally and professionally by being part of our community. Youth Advocates are trained and guided as they work with their youth participants and have the opportunity to build relationships not only with participants, but also with our Allies throughout the state of Georgia.