Sacramento Experience

The Sacramento Experience Youth Leadership Academy is a unique opportunity for PAL Youth Leadership Council officers and directors to gain hands-on experience in leadership and character development. Another huge aspect of Sacramento Experience is that the PAL kids have the opportunity to learn about the legislative process, tour the State Capitol Building, personally meet and speak with their local district legislators, and meet with hundreds of other PAL youth from all regions of California.

As one of California PAL's most important educational programs, the benefits of attending the Sacramento Experience Youth Leadership Academy are two-fold:

First, PAL youth will be challenged and empowered to rise to a new level of participation in their various PAL programs as well as their communities and schools. The leadership knowledge that the kids gain by participating in the Youth Leadership Council (YLC) program enables them to have the confidence to make a difference with their peers and in the community. These PAL kids influence others to get involved and through this effort, juvenile crime and gang involvement in the local communities is diminished.

Secondly, meeting with their State Legislators enables PAL chapters to establish and build strategic personal relationships with their Representatives. During these meetings, the PAL chapters have the opportunity to educate Legislators about their PAL program's effect on reducing juvenile crime and violence and the good that California PAL is doing to give PAL youth the opportunity to become better citizens and be an active part of their local communities.