What is narrative power?

We urgently need to cultivate the deep, generative base of narrative power that can grow, iterate new ideas and messages, extend and repair bonds with communities, and collectively endure. We must hand build the infrastructure for our collective survival. We need to build it even as we are dismantling harmful deep narratives. The infrastructures we currently have in the nonprofit and philanthropic spaces are not sufficient. We need to build infrastructures that organize our collective narrative power. - The Forge

Is this event only for youth?

This event will center youth voices. Youth advocates who work with youth and or lead youth programming/ organizing are strongly encouraged to attend!

Can multiple youth from my organization attend this event?

Yes, please make sure every person from your organization is registered.

How long is the convening and what if I can only attend one day?

Our scheduled programming currently has an opening plenary networking event. We understand if people are only able to attend day two, however we strongly encourage participants to attend both days to maximize the opportunity to connect and build. If for whatever reason you are no longer able to attend please let us know as soon as possible. Space and resources are limited.

Messages From Our Movement Narrative Power Summit

Name: Messages From Our Movement Narrative Power Summit
Start: 2026-08-04T16:00:00-0700
End: 2026-08-05T17:00:00-0700
Location: Hosted on Humanitix

Tue, Aug 4, 4pm - Wed, Aug 5, 5pm PDT

To be announced

All Youth Are Sacred

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The Messages From Our Movement Narrative Power Summit will be a 2-day gathering for young people and youth advocates to connect with one another to sharpen skills, strategize, storytell, and build narrative power. In this current political moment, we are the narrators the movement needs to capture the lived experiences of our communities. We must come together to build narrative power; our communities deserve agency over the stories being told about us. Through narrative, we illustrate a world that is possible when we embrace youth as sacred.

We hope that you will join us for this youth power-building opportunity August 4th 4pm-8pm, and August 5th, 8:30 am-5:30 pm in Oakland. This event is cohosted by the California Alliance for Youth and Community Justice, also known as CAYCJ. For more information, please visit allyoutharesacred.org/summit

Limited financial support for travel and lodging is available for young people 14-25. If you are in need of financial assistance, please register by June 19th.*

FAQs

What is narrative power?

We urgently need to cultivate the deep, generative base of narrative power that can grow, iterate new ideas and messages, extend and repair bonds with communities, and collectively endure. We must hand build the infrastructure for our collective survival. We need to build it even as we are dismantling harmful deep narratives. The infrastructures we currently have in the nonprofit and philanthropic spaces are not sufficient. We need to build infrastructures that organize our collective narrative power. - The Forge
Is this event only for youth?

This event will center youth voices. Youth advocates who work with youth and or lead youth programming/ organizing are strongly encouraged to attend!
Can multiple youth from my organization attend this event?

Yes, please make sure every person from your organization is registered.
How long is the convening and what if I can only attend one day?

Our scheduled programming currently has an opening plenary networking event. We understand if people are only able to attend day two, however we strongly encourage participants to attend both days to maximize the opportunity to connect and build. If for whatever reason you are no longer able to attend please let us know as soon as possible. Space and resources are limited.

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The All Youth Are Sacred (AYAS) Narrative Power Building Initiative was established by a core group of youth justice advocates within the California Alliance for Youth and Community Justice (CAYCJ) coalition. Our mission is to empower youth to tell their stories and tackle criminalizing narratives that fail to capture the decreasing numbers of youth arrest and incarceration.

AYAS seeks to build and nurture power at the local and state level through a shared framework that shifts the belief that young people should be punished when they make mistakes, and holds that healing and rehabilitation happens in the community, not through confinement and carceral systems.

Our initiative believes that if ALL youth are seen through the lens of sacredness and valued as such, then funding priorities will shift toward community-led solutions, policy priorities will shift and transform from punitive approaches, and we would build a “village” response to hold that young person.

Our approach to safety would transform to reflect that it is an entire community’s responsibility to provide young people, and by extension their families, with the basic needs to ensure they are set up for success rather than failure and incarceration.