YOUTH PROGRAMS

CAE’s Youth Programs provides skills and tools to support young people in New York City to actively prevent,  disrupt and help heal from violence while supporting them through the current youth issues that they face in their day to day lives.

We offer two programs that cater to young girls and teens, both cis and trans and gender expansive youth.

CAE staff also provide workshops for adults who interface with youth -ex :  teachers, social service workers and parents. 

Request a Workshop for your School or Community

Workshops can be customized and developed according to your needs. Click below to learn more and make a request.

PACT Activists

The Center for Anti-Violence Education works to dismantle and disrupt acts of violence in communities that experience xenophobia and all forms of racism through community programming and empowerment self defense practices. Our PACT Program, which stands for, Power, Action, Change for Teens, is our youth-based program that offers these same skills and tools for pre-teens and teens. PACT Activist is our high school level youth program. It is an incredible opportunity for teen girls and gender expansive and gender non-conforming youth to learn skills and tools through empowered self defense work and social justice practice in their community. 

✨Start date: Monday, January 8th!

✨Deadline for our application is December 1st. First come, first serve. Space is limited.

✨Accepted students will have the opportunity to receive either community service credit or an end-of-program stipend.

✨Please feel free to distribute the flyer to anyone you think may be interested and email our program at youth@caeny.org or Georgina Pierre-Louis, the Youth Program Manager at georgina@caeny.org with any questions.

✨Register HERE

Peer Educators

In this stipended internship you'll strengthen your leadership skills and tools to become a Peer Educator during 2024 academic year and teach Upstander and Empowerment Self Defense to other young people throughout NYC & beyond!

  • Meets twice a month on Fridays from 4-6PM

  • Location: 30 3rd Ave, Brooklyn NY 11217

  • Open to NYC teen girls & gender expansive youth in grades 9 and above.

Click here to learn more and apply!