Become a Youth Advocate

Educate!

| Themes and Teachings | The Facts| The Issues | Advocate! | Act! |

Themes and Teachings

To learn about Catholic social teaching, visit

• The Seven Key Themes of Catholic Social Teaching
• Jesus is the Good Shepherd
• The Saintly Life of Edith Stein (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) and Solidarity

The Facts

Poverty and justice here in America

• CCHD: Poverty USA

To find out about poverty and justice around the globe visit

• The CRS & USCCB Global Poverty Campaign

To learn about regions and nations visit

• Regions
• Catholic work around the Globe

The issues and the people behind them

• Abortion
• AIDS
• Bio-Ethics
• Death Penalty
• Domestic Issues
• Environmental Issues
• Foreign Aid
• Global Poverty
• Immigration
• International Issues
• Iraq and other Priority Issues of 2008
• Sudan

Advocate!

How to advocate

• Young Advocate Toolkit
• Tips for letter writing and info on Congress

Advocacy on domestic and international issues

• Domestic Advocacy
• International Advocacy

Advocate Now!

Advocate on domestic issues

• Legislative Action Center for Domestic Issues

Advocate on international issues

• Legislative Action Center for International Issues

Advocate on hunger issues

• Legislative Action Center for Hunger Issues

Advocate on immigration issues

• Contact your Representatives!
• Alert the Press!

Receive Action Alerts for justice issues

• The Social Development and World Peace Mailing List

Act!

Pledge to take action

• Pledge to Help Break the Cycle of Poverty

Learn how to get involved

• Four Steps to Getting Involved
• Get Involved!

Taking it back to youth groups and high schools

• Brake the Cycle of Poverty: Bicycle Tour
• Cyber Bridges
• Fair Trade
• Food Fast
• Operation Rice Bowl
• The 2008-09 Multi-Media Youth Arts Contest!