Call to Join the Kentucky Youth Advisory Council for the USPSA

Attention all college and high school students interested in grassroots campaigning and public service:

My name is Sean Feeney and I'm the Kentucky State Representative for the National Youth Advisory Council of the United States Public Service Academy (USPSA). Each state is creating their own local advisory councils to coordinate campaigning inside of their state, and it's time for Kentucky to create one!

As a member of the Kentucky Youth Advisory Council you will help get the word out about the Academy to your friends and colleagues and help arrange meetings with influential people in your area! You'll circulate the petition and blog about all things USPSA.

For more information please visit the USPSA website at www.uspublicserviceacademy.org.

If you are interested in joining, please contact me by commenting on this or sending me a message.

If you are from another state and would like to help in your own state, you can also contact me and I'll arrange that for you!

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The U.S. Public Service Academy is an exciting effort that is capturing the imagination of young people all across the country. You can become an important part of our movement by joining your state’s Youth Advisory Council (YAC). As part of the YAC, you will help us build the Academy in three important ways:

1) Youth mobilization
We need to spread the word about the Academy to young people everywhere – in schools, churches, synagogues, malls, FaceBook, MySpace, . . . The best way to get young people involved is to have another young person tell them about what we are doing. YAC members will help us get more young folks involved in the movement.

2) Political action
Think you are too young to make an impact on politics? Wrong! Young people have already been tremendously helpful in getting a bill to create the Academy in front of Congress. The U.S. Public Service Academy Act (S. 960 in the Senate and H.R. 1671 in the House of Representatives) was introduced in March 2007. Now that the bill has been introduced, we need to convince people in Congress to support it. YAC members can help us organize letter-writing campaigns and call-in days that will encourage representatives and senators to join us.

3) Blueprint feedback
As part of the movement to build the Academy, we are writing a Blueprint that will describe what the school will look like from the ground up. This document will cover admissions, faculty, students, student life, post-graduation placement, and other important topics. YAC members will read through the document to make sure that we don’t screw it up – after all, young people will attend the college, and we want to be sure that our plans make sense to them.

As part of the Kentucky YAC, you will help us change the face of higher education in this country. You will be expected to spend 1-2 hours a week (more if there is a major event coming up) working on the Academy. The hours are flexible, and much of the work can be done online.