STRIVE hosted a Ricketts Community Conversation for Youth as part of a Community Voice Grant effort, bringing STRIVE students together for an intentional evening centered on youth perspective, dialogue, and leadership. Students gathered over dinner in a welcoming setting to share their opinions, lived experiences, and insights on issues impacting their community, ensuring that youth voice played a meaningful role in informing grant planning and community decision making.
The conversation highlighted STRIVE’s commitment to elevating student voice as a critical component of community development. By creating space for open discussion, reflection, and collaboration, STRIVE empowered students to see how their ideas and perspectives directly contribute to real opportunities and resources for their community.
Events like the Ricketts Community Conversation reinforce STRIVE’s mission to prepare young people not only as creatives and learners, but as informed leaders whose voices matter in shaping the future.
