YMCA Youth and Government, or Y&G (also known as YMCA Youth in Government) is a YMCA civic engagement and service-learning program in the United States that allows high school students to serve in a model government process at the local, state, national, and international levels. The Youth and Government program was established in 1936 in New York by Clement “Pete” Duran, then the Boys Work Secretary of the Albany YMCA. As of 2010, the program operates in 37 states and the District of Columbia, serving nearly 60,000 high school students around the country. The motto of the program is “Democracy must be learned by each generation.”
A similar program is in place for those in middle school Model United Nations or M.U.N. Some state Youth and Government programs offer this program to middle school students interested in international relations through state Model United Nations MUN programs that allow delegates to serve in organizations such as the General Assembly, Security Council, and International Courts
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