Upon counting the votes, the top four topics chosen for the upcoming school year are the following: juvenile sentencing and rehabilitation, homelessness, foster care, and education.Īt the next mass meeting, which took place on Monday, September 16, MAP students got the chance to confirm the topics collectively in person. On September 6, students were then given a link to vote for their top four choices. Issues such as agriculture, water conservation, and affirmative action were brought up, but the issues were narrowed down to foster care, homelessness, juvenile sentencing and rehabilitation, hunger, immigration, foreign policy, the environment, gun violence, and education. After some introductions and icebreakers, the students were allowed to brainstorm issues that they would possibly like to research for the year. At the meeting, participants were introduced to the officers, the website, and MAP’s purpose. On Tuesday, September 3rd, MAP had its first mass meeting with plenty of new prospectors. In addition to this, MAP officers plan to visit Freshmen classrooms later in the next few weeks to spread even more awareness towards the group and hopefully enlist some fresh faces. In the hopes of seeing new faces at MAP, officers Nivi Ahlawat and Shannon Lam created a “Mitty Minute” video to bring school attention to the group. Also discussed during the meeting was strategies to get more underclassmen involved. Trip, the Youth Advocacy Leadership Conference at Mitty, and Catholic Youth Advocacy Network Day at Sacramento. During the meeting, new MAP President, Sarah Stoch, gives an overview of some of the plans for the school year which include the Washington D.C. On Monday, August 26, Mitty’s Advocacy Project starts off with the first MAP officer meeting of the school year. Sacramento Bee: Capitol and California Section.MAP Alumnae Grace Hase U of Missouri Newspaper Links.California Legislation: Sorted by Topic.Office of Social Justice: Catholic Social Teaching Links.Catholic Relief Services: Action Alerts.Mitty's Online Packet – Creating Social Justice Videos.Around The Capitol (California Legislature).