Mission
Through political education, organizing skills, and issue based and electoral campaigns we are building power among young people and fighting for a people-powered Florida.
Vision
We envision a Florida where Black, Brown and directly impacted youth & student organizers lead the charge towards safe and sustainable communities.
YOUTH STRATEGY | YOUTH POWER
THE MOMENT
For the past decade, Florida has seen legislative attacks that have harmed our communities and youth members, including the Stop WOKE Act, the ‘Don’t Say LGBTQ+’ bill, and anti-immigrant policies. The 2024 elections have further emboldened leaders to create hostile environments for Black, brown, queer, immigrant and working class communities. Over the next two years, Florida Student Power will build on its growing youth power centered in deep listening, local power-building, and youth leadership development to drive both defensive and offensive youth power. In 2025, we will lead a coalition of young people to resist harmful state policies while advancing local power in municipal elections. This foundation of trust and power building will set the stage for 2026, where we will leverage issue-based campaigns and a growing youth leadership and engagement to shape key electoral outcomes and build long-term political power for Florida’s communities.
How We Do It
Civic Engagement Program: We educate, organize and mobilize our youth through legislative session and our campaigns that informs our electoral strategies for local, state and presidential elections.
Campaigns: will uplift the impacts of our youth with issue priorities of education justice, migrant justice, and climate justice.
Power University: the political education arm of the organization will lead curriculum and training that go over the basics of organizing, highlighting the differences between issue-based community organizing, and electoral organizing. Power University will also partner with organizations and universities across the state on in-person/virtual training.
Power Pods: regional groups of youth, will be where youth mobilize, strategize, and practice collective decision making.
