YWLP Accomplishments: Archive
The Young Women’s Leadership Program has been active since 2006 and has had numerous accomplishments over the years. Below you’ll find a brief listing of the success the program has had, organized by year.
2010 (to date)
- Held the first YWLP house party (4 held to date)
- Announced the 4th annual essay contest
- Volunteered at various community events including the AIDS Walk, the Race for the Cure and Foodshare
- Honored essay contest winners at Women’s Day at the Capitol
- Released a publication highlighting winners from the essay contest
- Created the YWLP Volunteer Program
- Held an event on Pay Equity Day
- Continued with newsletter (quarterly)
2009
- Created the YWLP quarterly newsletter
- Polled members and created legislative priorities based off of their responses
- Testified on 17 bills
- Spoke to several groups about the YWLP
- Co-sponsored PCSW’s Talent Bank Networking Event
- Co-Sponsored an event geared at celebrating women in public service
- Held an intergenerational coffee house on pay equity day
- Conducted the third essay contest—this time for seniors in high school
- Created the YWLP House Party Program
- Held a successful YWLP networking event
2008
- Polled YWLP members about legislative issues and used the poll results to establish legislative priorities for young women
- Created seven research briefs about different topics that affect young women including emergency shelter, educational equality, financial literacy, reproductive health, health literacy, housing and affordable education.
- Testified on 29 bills
- Held two networking events for women ages 18-35
- Held a photo shoot and created two posters marketing the YWLP
- Created a YWLP facebook page
- Created giveaways including a small mirror that reads “This is what a leader looks like”
2007
- Conducted the second annual essay contest for high school students with the topic of the wage gap
- Created legislative priorities for young women
- Testified on 44 bills highlighting how they would impact young women
- Created a display about young women’s leadership that was shown at the state capital for two weeks during legislative session
- Opened up the YWLP to membership
- Spoke to all Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) Resident Assistants about body image and leadership
- Created a YWLP myspace page (no longer active – the focus is currently on facebook)
- Conducted body image workshops at Making Women Visible Day and presented to over 50 girlscouts
- Co-sponsored a reproductive justice networking event
- Spoke to high school students about the role of gender in leadership and what a leader looks like
2006
- Established the first steering committee
- Created an essay contest for high school students with the topic of a female president
- Using essays from the contest the program created a publication titled Young Voice on Women’s Leadership
- Created legislative priorities for young women ages 18-35– the first organization in the state to do so
- Spoke to various organizations and college campuses about legislative advocacy and body image and the media
- Created a page on the PCSW website for the YWLP