For this week’s Student Spotlight, Youth Action featured Lamar Pittman – a 15-year-old student in our Inspiring Leaders Program who currently attends Appoquinimink High School. Lamar told us that he decided to join Youth Action because he wanted to learn how to have great leadership skills and become more mature.

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For our second Student Spotlight of the Week, Youth Action highlighted Ahmya Begley – a 9th-grade student at Bonner Prendie High School. Ahmya took her decision to join Youth Action very seriously. She did her research, became fascinated and intrigued by the organization, and decided it would offer her what she

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Youth Action wants to show off our most bright & inspiring young leaders with a new Wednesday Special: Student Spotlight of the Week 👏 For our first Spotlight, we have Nasir Abdulshaheed! Nasir is a high school student who participates in our Inspiring Leaders Program. We are proud to have

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For this week’s #socialissuespotlight, Youth Action is highlighting the opioid epidemic in Philadelphia. Drug overdose deaths in our city are at historic levels, with the number of deaths from opioid overdose surpassing the number of deaths from homicide.

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