✊🏾 Civically Engaged Newsletter – August 2025

🌟 Who We Are

Civically Engaged is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) empowering justice-involved youth and young adults—specifically formerly incarcerated individuals aged 16–21—through:

✔️ Civic education✔️ Leadership development✔️ Political workforce training✔️ Mentorship

We believe investing in youth impacted by the juvenile justice system strengthens democracy and transforms communities from the inside out.

🎯 Our Mission

To provide justice-involved youth with opportunities to:

• Develop political literacy

• Lead in their communities

• Gain workforce readiness in politics & public service

• Mentor the next generation of changemakers

💡 We teach young people how to think politically, not what to think politically.

🌍 Our Vision

A civic landscape where young people impacted by incarceration are: ✨ Leading movements ✨ Shaping policy ✨ Building better futures—for themselves and generations to come.

At Civically Engaged, we know democracy thrives when it is inclusive, transformative, and powered by those historically excluded.

📍 Program Updates – August 2025

Currently operating in Philadelphia in partnership with the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office of Juvenile Diversion and the School District of Philadelphia.

Coming in September:

📜 Constitution Day at the National Constitution Center🗳️ Voter Registration Drives on National Voter Registration Day⚖️ Partnership with Committee of 70 → Youth will interview judicial candidates running for office in PA🎤 Presentation at Virginia Justice Conference – Our Political Director, Quadaire Patterson, will represent Civically Engaged and share our work empowering justice-involved youth

📢 Expansion News:

• Camden, NJ → Launching this September

• Richmond, VA → Talks underway for October

🚨 Advocacy Spotlight

Our youth are leading a campaign to End Solitary Confinement for Juveniles.This advocacy push reflects our belief that justice should be rooted in healing, rehabilitation, and opportunity—not isolation.

💙 Support Our Work

We’ve had an incredible month, and even more is ahead. But we can’t do it without you.

💡 Every dollar you give helps us:

• Expand to new cities

• Train more young leaders

• Build civic power in communities that need it most

👉 Donate Today

🙏🏾 Thank You

Thank you for standing with us in this movement. Together, we’re proving that justice-involved youth aren’t a problem to be solved—they’re the solution we’ve been waiting for.

See you in September with more updates on the great things our young people are doing!