Youth Action Coalition
Youth Action Coalition (YAC) began in 1988 as Hampshire Youth 2000 Coalition, a prevention-based youth leadership organization. The early years saw the creation of intergenerational projects, substance abuse prevention programs, a youth-run newspaper and community service learning projects.
Today AfC programs are offered to middle and high school-aged youth in Amherst, Easthampton, Ware and the surrounding towns. We work with youth from a wide array of social circumstances, and reach out particularly to youth who are marginalized due to their experiences with race, class, gender and sexual orientation oppression, as well as allies who face other forms of marginalization and actively want to work with a diverse group of youth for a common cause.