Governments Engaging Youth (GEY) promotes strong partnerships between school districts and local government entities to offer students opportunities to gain 21st century work skills, build interest in public service careers, provide tools to become civically aware and engaged and bring an authentic youth voice to community issues. Joint efforts help leverage funds, staff resources and expertise from both entities. The schools bring expertise in teaching students about civics and 21st century skills and have access to students for program recruitment. Local agencies bring expertise around the ins and outs of how government operates, access to internships or job shadows and how to address local issues that impact youth. GEY encourages municipal entities, school districts and private and non-profit agencies to partner so students can experience the collaboration needed among entities to solve community issues and concerns.

This section contains resources on communications and outreach regarding the relationship between school districts and municipal entities.

For information on community-school partnerships as well as how to support underrepresented youth, see the ILG resources below as well as these two briefs:

• Community-School Partnerships to Support Youth Development (REACH)
• Toward Making Good on All Youth: Engaging Underrepresented Youth Populations in Community Youth Development (REACH)

Council, Board and Staff Reports

• Report to City Council Example: City of Moreno Valley
• Staff Report Example: City of Oxnard
• Partnership Proposal (Oxnard: High School, City and Business Intermediary)

MOUs and Agreements

• City of Yuba City and Yuba City Unified School District MOU
• Joint Resolution Example: City of Moreno Valley & Val Verde USD
• MOU Examples
• Draft Vision Goals Objectives for SACH between city-school agencies