Monthly meetings tend to have a small committee or few Sunday school teachers dedicated to programming. At the yearly, and quarterly meeting level we have committees that Friends serve on for a few years at a time creating and supporting youth to led their events. Those committees are outlined below. We also have a grant program to create youth events and help youth attend events such as summer camps, retreats, conferences, or workshops. Regardless of who you are all youth workers submit to a fingerprinting background check, that form can be downloaded below.
Interested in working with Quaker youth? Apply here. Once approved you can download and print this Background Check template, take it to a LiveScan fingerprinting service near you for your background check. Costs vary around 30$.
Quarterly Meeting Teen & Children’s Committees: Both in Southern and Northern California these committees meet a few times throughout the school year to plan the children’s and teen’s programming at our regular gatherings throughout the year. Teen leaders are nominated to the committee and help steer the committees work. Meetings are over zoom and usually there are 3-4 meetings in the lead up to an event.
Yearly Meeting Children’s Program Committee: Meets a few times throughout the year and a handful of times in the lead up to Annual Session to recruit and support teachers and programming for the week of Annual Session.
Junior Yearly Meeting Committee: Comprised of mostly teens and a handful of adults, this committee meets once in person and frequently on zoom in sub-committees to plan out all the details of the teen program at Annual Session. Committee members are invited to work the annual session as Friendly Responsible Adult Presences but it’s not a requirement for service.
Youth Programs Coordinating Committee: Holds the entire vision of Quaker youth programming in its scope. Supporting the above committees when needed and planning international trips, aiding summer camps, reviewing grant applications and supervising and directing the Youth Programs Coordinator position. This committee meets monthly on zoom and once a year in person, with occasional subcommittee meetings. Reach out to them at ypccclerk@pacificyearlymeeting.org.
Youth Grants
We have two grant programs the Youth Programs Fund and the John Woolman School Fund. To apply head over to our Grant Programs page under resources.
A generous donation was made to PacYM from Bob Vogel for the purpose of creating a funding source for youth programs. The interest from this endowment is collected twice a year and creates PacYM’s Youth Programs Fund. A committee (YPCC) oversees all grant applications and approves requests at their discretion. Anyone can apply to the Youth Programs Fund. Click here to see our ledger of every grant request that has been granted since the inception of the fund.
The John Woolman School Grant Program began May 2026, with the first round of applications being reviewed in September 2026. This grant program was made possible through a restricted gift from the College Park Friends Educational Association (CPFEA). The CPFEA was a decades long ministry project of Quakers in northern California to provide Quaker Education in various capacities. The flagship programs were known as the John Woolman School, the Woolman Semester Program and Camp Woolman. The programs were laid down in the early 2020’s and the land was sold in a negotiated rematriation deal to HUṠWEJ a tribally guided non-profit of the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe.
Common Youth Forms