MyCom's Monday Hi-Five for Every Hour Counts and their Powered By Youth Voice Initiative
Every Hour Counts is a coalition of citywide organizations that increases access to quality learning opportunities, particularly for underserved students.
The Every Hour Counts coalition represents longstanding partnerships with more than 1,400 schools, districts, and community based-organizations that provide quality after-school and summer programming. Every Hour Counts partners support initiatives that reach more than 500,000 students each year.
In
2022,
Every
Hour
Counts,
in
partnership
with
Youthprise,
launched
the
Powered
by
Youth
Voice:
Future
Directions
for
Afterschool
initiative,
with
support
from
the
Charles
Stewart
Mott
Foundation.
Powered
by
Youth
Voice
empowers
young
people
as
co-creators
and
designers
of
solutions
to
issues
impacting
their
peers
and
communities.
Powered
by
Youth
Voice
offers
meaningful
opportunities
for
youth
to
transform
programs
and
systems
intended
to
serve
them
by
engaging
them
in
program
design,
data
collection,
grant
distribution,
policy
and
systems
change,
and
more.
The
“Powered
by
Youth
Voice:
Future
Directions
for
Afterschool”
survey
was
co-created
by
Informed
Change,
Hamai
Consulting,
and
youth
researchers
with
support
from
the
Mott
Foundation
and
in
partnership
with
the
Powered
by
Youth
Voice:
Future
Directions
for
Afterschool
initiative.
Participants
included
1,087
young
people
from
321
afterschool
programs
across
the
country.
Testimonials
-
Curtis Benjamin
-
Brenda PryorMyCom Coordinator
-
Brandan NewtonAnton Grdina FLOW Participant
MyCom will enact our mission with race and equality at the forefront of our work as we always have. We will use our thought-leadership, funding, advocacy, and network to redesign service delivery. Together we will rethink infrastructure and create solutions that eliminate access to healthcare, cyclical poverty, access to quality education, housing stability, and other barriers that have impacted black lives.