Youth Climate Action Program

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Logo for RF Youth Climate Summit featuring a stylized tree with green leaves, a brown trunk, blue waves at the base, and the event name incorporated in black text.

YCAP

The Youth Climate Summit launched Residents Forward’s Youth Climate Action Program (YCAP), a mentorship program, where students grades 7-12 work in teams with RF Mentors to create real solutions for Port Washington’s environmental challenges.

Students turn local issues into action through research, planning and working with experts to implement their Climate Action Projects and measure its impact.

From climate change to water conservation, food waste, pollution to sustainability in business, the YCAP inspires, empowers and cultivates the next generation of caretakers to be leaders and change makers to move Port towards a more sustainable peninsula.

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Learn about one of our latest YCAP’s Save the Bagel!

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Group of five young women sitting around a black table in an indoor setting, with notebooks, papers, and backpacks on the table.
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