Youth Caucus at General Assembly
General Assembly (GA) is the annual meeting of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). Its programming includes open business meetings in which delegates speak and vote (called Plenary), workshops that any registered attendee may attend, worship services scattered throughout the days and nights, a large exhibit hall with displays from congregations, departments of the UUA, and other Unitarian Universalist (UU) or UU-related organizations, and tons of other great events, meetings and fun programs! Thousands of UU children, youth and adults, gather at GA and take the city over for a week. It has a contingent of youth, but it is not a youth conference.
Youth Caucus is the umbrella term for all youth programming that happens at General Assembly. Youth Caucus is a group of UU youth, ages 14-20, which participates in regular General Assembly programming and holds programming specifically for youth, including daily meetings to discuss and take part in GA business.
The purpose of Youth Caucus is to serve:
- Youth who want to get involved in UUism, or the UUA — youth who want to grow as UUs through attending a wide range of GA and/or Young Religioius Unitarian Universalist (YRUU) workshops, who want to network with the wider UU community.
- Youth, including youth delegates, who are interested in and/or committed to participating in plenary session and the business of GA. There will be support and programming for how to participate in the business, as well as an interest group in the business meetings.
All youth are welcome to participate in
Youth Caucus. Youth aged
14-17 who want to register for General
Assembly must register for Youth
Caucus, though they are not required
to attend any Youth Caucus
programming other than the orientation.
General Assembly is also where the Youth Advisor of the Year Award is presented each year.
Information about each year's General Assembly
location as well as registration, housing, and programming details are available
online.
For more information contact yruu @ uua.org.
Last updated on Thursday, March 13, 2008.
