The education and social policy gateway at GSPA is sponsoring Youth Speak Up '98, a project to promote youth involvement and empowerment in their communities. GSPA students will help facilitate youth council meetings and engage the group in teambuilding activities. The project will end in May with a meeting between the Shoreline City Council and the newly formed Shoreline Youth Council, where youth will present their priorities for the youth council's ongoing work in the Shoreline community. The student groups in each gateway developed projects around trust in government issues within their area of study. The following is a description of each panel discussion in the series.
Video tapes are available of each presentation.
His presentation reflected on the ways citizens obtain and digest issue-related information, including whether they trust the numbers put out by the government. The Honest Numbers and Democracy series was inspired by research on this issue conducted by Trust in Government co-chair Walt Williams. The student groups in each gateway developed projects around trust in government issues within their area of study. The following provides a summary of the projects in each gateway. Youth Speak Up is an educational project that seeks to give new voters a real-life experience that will inspire them to think about their role in government.