Policy 101 was developed and implemented by the Center of Law and Social Policy's Youth Policy through facilitated workshops. These workshops are designed to demystify policy, introduce the concept of systems of power and their influence on policy, provide an overview of the basic elements of a policy agenda, and provide participants the opportunity to draft an advocacy strategy for an issue that they care about. This is a virtual self-paced asynchronous version of the Policy 101 workshops that includes virtual discussion boards, videos, online activities, and more.

This course does require all participants have VoiceThread and Google accounts. These accounts are free.

If you are using a smartphone to complete the course, we would highly recommend downloading the Voice Thread App and the Google Jamboard App.

To create a Voice Thread account, click here.

If you have your own Google account, please free feel to use that account. If you do not have a google account, please create one here.