Youth Advisory Council
What Is It?
Our Youth Advisory Council (YAC) is a group of 14– to 24–year-olds who provide intentional youth voice and presence. The YAC is critical to our work and its enthusiasm and commitment to our mission inspires us every day. YAC members partner and collaborate with Maine Boys to Men in pursuit of its mission and its program development and delivery. Many community organizations seek out the Youth Council for their fresh perspective and ask them for help to inform policies and programs. The Youth Council has made a documentary; trained Maine students and teachers; attended conferences; created a podcast; served on panels; convened speakers; and brought our youth violence prevention program to hundreds of students and adults. Our Youth Council changes the world.
If you are a young person who wants to learn more about masculinity, gender stereotypes, consent, upstander intervention, empathy, and communication, please fill out this Google form to get started. We would love to have you join us to create a positive impact in our community.

Listen to our youth podcast, The Youth Take, on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
What Are The Meetings Like?
We begin with funny check-ins to let us all connect. Then, we are always inspired by new learning related to gender, empathy, communication, or healthy relationships. We are encouraged to take what we’ve learned and share with other students, student groups, RSVP® clubs, etc. The rest of the meeting is project work—we always have an event or project we are working on. We close by reflecting on what we’ve learned and we answer another connecting question.
As Maine Boys to Men Youth Advisory Council Members, we are…
- Valued for our contributions to our Maine community;
- Meaningfully engaged in the topics of healthy masculinity and gender-based violence prevention;
- Partners with adults in our community and within MBTM;
- Engaging in dialogue and projects to improve our community;
- Informed and inspired to make positive change;
- Providing feedback for MB2M program direction and effectiveness;
- Offered leadership training to become better leaders in gender-based violence prevention;
- Ready to carry what we have learned to whatever communities we will be entering next.
Who Is It?

Abbie (she/her)

Aidan (he/him)

Aimable (he/him)

Ana (she/her)

Dylan (she/her)

Eliana (she/her)

Grace (she/her)

Jared (he/him)

Jason (he/him)

Joe Les (he/him)

Linguo (he/him)

Makayla (she/her)

Maggie (she/her)

Natalie (she/her)

Olivia (she/her)

Owen (he/him)

Pearl (she/her)

Sara (she/her)

Satchel (he/him)
Not pictured above
Brennan (he/him)
Scarborough High School, Class of 2022
Wes (he/him)
Maine Coast Waldorf School, Class of 2022
Seamus (he/him)
Maine Coast Waldorf School, Class of 2021
Ella (she/her)
Yarmouth High School, Class of 2022