EMPOWERING CALIFORNIA'S YOUTH || JEVON WILKES

🎙 In this episode of #LifeisaSacredJourney, our host, Micheal Pope, will be joined by Jevon Wilkes, the Executive Director with California Coalition For Youth and Director of Youth Engagement with California Children's Trust. For nearly 15 years, Jevon has dedicated his career to the non-profit sector, focusing on disconnect, runaway, and homeless youth. Jevon's passion for serving youth comes from his lived experience with homelessness, the foster care system, and being a disconnected youth himself. Positive adult role models and mentors were crucial to Jevon's many successes and accomplishments that opened the door to his role as Executive Director with the California Coalition for Youth (CCY) in 2018. Before joining CCY, at the age of 16, Jevon used his voice and homeless experience to advocate for youth and secure much-needed funding, programs, and supports at the state level.

Today Jevon serves as an appointed member of the California ChildWelfare Council, California Department of Health Care Services Behavioral Health Stakeholder Advisory Committee & Proposition 64 Advisory Group. His appointments stem from his passion for addressing the needs of youth experiencing homelessness and youth service providers aligned with making youth homelessness rare, short-lived, and nonrecurring. Jevon feels a calling to utilize his education, talents, passion, and lived experiences to serve as an example of what is possible for youth when they receive support and leadership opportunities. ℹ️ Learn more

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