What is the Youth Voice Council?
We are a group of diverse youth from various communities coming together to act as advocates for our peers. We present a better image of today’s youth by establishing more effective communication between youth and adults concerning poverty, sex education, crime, discrimination, and education. We achieve our goals by acting as role models and spreading our message through various forms of media.

What we do
As the Duval’s Youth Voice Council, we serve as volunteers and role models throughout our community. We attend conferences and sit on panels to give a youth’s perspective on today’s issues. We attend these events in the hopes to learn how to better speak and relate to adults as well as get the point across that the youth of Jacksonville are willing to do what it takes to help turn our city around.

Mission Statement
Young people working together to create a voice for the youth in an effort to improve our community.

Vision Statement

• To improve our community by providing a forum for youth to communicate and be actively involved in a wide range of civic activities.
• To create a positive public awareness of young people
• To bring youth together through common interests via
• Newspaper, TV, Radio
• Six Areas of Interest
  -Lack of Communication with Adults
  -Poverty
  -Crime and Violence
  -County’s School System 
  -Discrimination (Racial, Age, Sex)
  -Lack of Safe Sex Education

Meetings
Meetings are held bi-weekly from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. here at the Jacksonville Children's Commission, 1095 A. Philip Randolph Blvd., 32206.  Teens must be 13-18 years of age.  No minimum GPA requirement and no applications to fill out.  Teens need to show up with a commitment of dedication to the organization. 

The next scheduled meetings are:
June 29
July 13, 27
August 10, 24

For more information about the Duval Youth Voice Council, contact Myesha Miller @ 630-6441 or myesham@coj.net.