YC Village

The YC Village is personally designed for Black students to build community with each other and the trusted family, friends, and mentors of their choice.

YC Village Benefits

Microagression Free Community

Be able to communicate with each other without fear of being “corrected” for displaying natural characteristics of Black culture.

Your Choice

Your YC Village is your choice. You have the power to select who fills the following key roles in your village:

  • The Elder

  • The Friend

  • The Trusted Adult in My Life

  • The Trusted Adult at CAL Academy

Social Support

All YC Village members will have the option to be added to an exclusive Google Chat to stay in communication with each other.

The child shall have the right to freedom of expression

this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of the child’s choice.

— Article 13, Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959)

The child, for the full and harmonious development of his or her personality

should grow up in a family environment in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding.

— Preamble, Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959)