The U.S. Public Service Academy is an exciting effort that is capturing the imagination of young people all across the country. You can become an important part of our movement by joining the National Youth Council (NYC) or your state’s Youth Advisory Council (YAC).

If you already are a YACer, click here for access to YAC-specific videos and other material.

Check out the YAC Guidebook for tips, scripts, and how to’s!

As part of the NYC and YAC, you will help us build the Academy in two important ways:

1) Youth mobilization

We need to spread the word about the Academy to young people everywhere — in schools, churches, synagogues, malls, FaceBook, MySpace, . . . The best way to get young people involved is to have another young person tell them about what we are doing. NYC and YAC members will help us get more young folks involved in the movement.

2) Political action

Think you are too young to make an impact on politics? Wrong! Young people have already been tremendously helpful in getting a bill to create the Academy in front of Congress. The U.S. Public Service Academy Act (S. 960 in the Senate and H.R. 1671 in the House of Representatives) was introduced in March 2007 and now has more than 100 co-sponsors — YAC members are responsible for getting more than a dozen of those co-sponsors!

As part of the YAC, you will help us change the face of higher education in this country. You will be expected to spend 1-2 hours a week (more if there is a major event coming up) working on the Academy. The hours are flexible, and much of the work can be done online. If you are interested, download our contact sheet and application and email it to Shawn Raymond:

raymond “@” uspublicserviceacademy.org