7.13.2007 - Submit to Synapse!
The deadline for the 2007 Print Issue of Synapse (a compilation of our previous two online issues, plus new material by YOU) is July 18th. Visit the Synapse page to learn more about how to submit. The theme for this issue is "Do the Right Thing" and comes from both the lessons of the Spike Lee movie, and the concept of doing the right thing.

4.20.2007 - General Assembly Scholarship Deadline EXTENDED
The Youth Office has extended its scholarship deadline for General Assembly! The new deadline for Youth Office scholarships is May 15th. For more information, visit our Events page.

4.20.2007 - Work at the UUA Bookstore during GA!
The UUA Bookstore is looking for two young people (over 16 years old) to work at their booth during General Assembly. This is a PAID position. Check out an email from Rose, the bookstore manager.

4.17.2007 - General Assembly Registration Forms
As you've probably noticed, the UUA has launched a brand new website at http://uua.org. Unfortunately, there seem to be some glitches with the Youth Registration form for GA. While we fix those, we're putting a copy of the registration form on the Youth Office website so that you can still download it and register. Remember, the Early Registration deadline is April 30th (after that, the rates increase). You can download a registration form (which must be printed out) and mail it in to the GA Office. For more info about GA 2007, and Youth Caucus, visit our Events page.

3.5.2007 - Help the Commission On Appraisal!
The UUA's Commission on Appraisal is conducting a review of the UU principles and purposes, and YOU, your congregation, and your youth group can play a major role in this process. The Commission has created a booklet that includes workshops for congregations, youth groups, and children. These workshops are designed to provoke reflection and to gather input from these reflections to help the Commission in its review. Every congregation should have received a copy in the mail, but if you want to download and print a copy for yourself or your youth group, visit http://www.uua.org/coa.

2.28.2007 - General Assembly Youth Caucus!
General Assembly will be held in Portland, OR, from June 20th-24th. Registration opens on March 1st. The GA Volunteer Committee provides GA registration in exchange for volunteer work at GA. Applications for Volunteer positions will be made available March 1 and must be submitted by March 31st.
The application form can be found online beginning March 1st at: http://www.uua.org/ga/access.html The Youth Office also offers scholarships, and a resource on fundraising. The deadline for Youth Office scholarships is March 31st. For more information, visit our Events page.

12.18.2006 - Youth Advisor of the Year Award 2007!
Do you have an amazing youth advisor? Are you an amazing advisor or know an adult who is? If so, let the Youth Office know! Every year at GA Youth Caucus, the Youth Office honors one amazing
youth advisor for their outstanding contributions to the YRUU community. Click here to find out how to nominate a great advisor! The deadline is February 23rd. You can also download a flyer to advertise this in your congregation or event!

12.13.2006 - Calling all youth advisors!
Please complete an online survey about your ministry with youth. This survey will be available online from December 1, 2006, through February 28, 2007. Thank you for your input into the Consultation on Ministry To and With Youth!

11.17.2006 -
Fall 2006 Synapse is Online!!
The latest issue of the YRUU / Youth Office magazine Synapse is online here. The theme for this issue is Community Building. We're also accepting submissions for the winter/spring issue, whose theme is Healing the Fractures in Our Communities, about healing from sexual assualt and violence, so send in your essays, pictures, stories and poems!

11.17.2006 - Pathways To College Resource
We've posted a new resource about making decisions about college-- whether to attend, and how to chose a school that will meet your academic, financial, and personal needs. You can read that resource here.

10.17.2006 - Synapse Deadline Extended!
The deadline for Synapse submissions for the Community Building Issue has been extended to October 27th. Send your submissions to yruu@uua.org. For more information, visit the Synapse page.

10.12.2006 - Social Justice News and Blog!
The Fall 2006 YRUU Social Justice Newsletter has just been published. Check it out-- there's evena contest to name this exciting new publication! Plus, C*SAC Chris Michell has started a YRUU Social Action Blog. Bookmark it and check back for exciting social justice updates.

9.15.2006 - Submit to Synapse!
The Fall 2006 Issue of Synapse will be on the theme of Community Building. Submissions are due by October 15th. Send your essays, poems, stories, artwork, doodles and more to yruu@uua.org. For more info, visit the Synapse page.

8.29.2006 - One Year After Katrina: Our Committment
Today is August 29th, 2006. This means that one year ago today, Hurricaine Katrina crashed ashore, causing unimaginable damage in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. Read a letter by Youth Ministry Associate Laura Manning, who grew up in New Orleans.

8.22.2006 - See "An Inconvenient Truth" & Act to Stop Global Warming
The Interfaith Power & Light (IPL), a national interfaith ministry devoted to deepening the connection between ecology and faith, (very 7th Principle-like: "Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.") is offering a free copy of "An Inconvenient Truth" to congregations a week before it will be made available to the
general public, along with free information packets. Check out more info here.

8.21.2006 - Youth Ministry Survey Results!
Earlier this year more than 1,400 youth took the UUA's Youth Ministry Survey! Check out the results here. You can find out more about what youth in your area said in the survey by attending a District Youth Ministry Gathering. Youth, middle schoolers, young adults, parents, ministers, religious educators, congregational leaders and district leaders are all encouraged to attend!

7.17.2006 - Submit to Synapse
The deadline for submissions to the Summer issue of Synapse has been extended to July 24th! We're especially interested in receiving some visual art, including cover art! You can send submissions by email to yruu@uua.org.

4.21.2006 -
Winter 2006 Synapse is Online!!
The latest issue of the YRUU / Youth Office magazine Synapse is online here. The theme for this issue is Come Aboard the Leadership. We're also accepting submissions for the Spring issue, whose theme is Community Building, so send in your essays, pictures, stories and poems!

4.19.06 - Rights in Humanitarian Crises: Genocide in Darfur: UU Rally Before The Rally
YRUU has been invited to join the Unitarian Universalist Rally Before the Rally during a day of action to stop genocide in Darfur in Washington, DC, on April 30th. For more information, click here.

3.27.06 - Youth Survey A Success!
During January and February more than 1,400 youth ages 12-20 took the UU Youth Ministry Survey! Thank you to everyone who took it for your valuable input. Click here for updates. A complete report will be available this spring.

2.22.2006 - YSJT Post-Packet is Online
Ready to rock the Social Justice world? Here's the Post-Packet from the November YRUU Social Justice Training! With it is another document on opportunities to do some Social Justice Organizing.

1.25.2006 - Youth Advisor of the Year Award 2006!
Do you have an amazing youth advisor? Are you an amazing advisor or know an adult who is? If so, let the Youth Office know! Every year at GA Youth Caucus, the Youth Office honors one amazing
youth advisor for their outstanding contributions to the YRUU community. Click here to find out how to nominate a great advisor! The deadline is March 1st. You can also download a flyer to advertise this in your congregation or event!

12.22.2005 - Survey for All UU Youth!!
The next exciting step in the Consultation on Youth Ministry is here! Youth (ages 12-20) can take a survey telling the UUA what your experience is, and what you'd like from UUism. The results of this survey will be presented in congregational and district conversations, and big meetings of ministers, religious educators, and many others... so your opinion can have a big impact! There are also PRIZES (t-shirts and an iPod Nano!) available for those who take the survey! Get the survey here!

12.1.2005 -
Fall 2005 Synapse is Online!!
The latest issue of the YRUU / Youth Office magazine Synapse is online here. The theme for this issue is Spirituality. We're also accepting submissions for the Winter issue, whose theme is "Come Aboard the Leader-Ship!"

10.19.2005 - Resources for BGLT/Queer Youth
We've posted a new page that is a clearinghouse of information for youth who have a broad spectrum of sexual orientations and gender identities. Check it out here!

10.14.2005 - Major Update to Web Pages for Consultation on Ministry to and With Youth
Learn much more about the UUA's two-year process to completely revision and re-form the way it does Youth Ministry. Read more here!

10.4.2005 - Leave My Child Alone Campaign
The UUA has endorsed the "Leave My Child Alone" Campaign, which conducts education and advocacy about the inappropriate military recruiting in public schools. Through their site, you can learn more about the recruiter access requirements buried in the misnamed "No Child Left Behind" Act, and how you can opt your children out.

9.9.2005 - YRUU Historical Documents Now Available

Courtesy of the LRYer Website and former YPS Lorne Tyndale, we have posted some historical YRUU documents on our YRUU Governance page. Newly available documents include the 1989 Five-Year Review Report, Common Ground I and II documents, and the 1977 SCOYP Report.

8.31.2005 - UUA Response to Hurricane Tragedy

The UUA has posted its response to the disaster still unfolding in the gulf coast area, including where to send donations. You may also want to review our Resource for Youth Experiencing Trauma, and this reading from the worship web. Our thoughts of healing go out to those families and communities affected (both directly and indirectly) by this tragedy.

8.30.2005 - New Book on UU Youth Movement History

We Would Be One by Rev. Wayne Arnason and Rebecca Scott is a new/updated history of the Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist youth movements. You can get it from the UUA Bookstore here.

8.3.2005 - New Front Page for the YRUU Web Site!
In case you have this news page in your "favorites" or "bookmarks" -there is a new front page to the YRUU Web Site, which you can get by clicking on the YRUU image in the upper left of any page, or anytime you go to www.uua.org/yruu/

7.27.2005 - Chrysalis Training Program Award Recipients!
We've posted the list of people who have successfully applied for an award from our Chrysalis Training Program. If you'd like to apply yourself, you can do so here.

7.26.2005 - Updated Resources for BGLQQT Youth and their Youth Groups
We've updated our (10-year-old!) resources for Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Queer, Questioning, and Transgender youth and their allies. Updates of A Loving Community: Welcoming BGLQQT Youth Into YRUU and A Resource for Youth Who Are BGLQQT are now available on our online resources page.

7.20.2005 - All past issues of Synapse are now online!!
Thanks to some new technology (and some help from our fabulous interns!) we have been able to scan and post on our website all of the back issues of the YRUU magazine / newspaper Synapse and it's predecessor, the Liberal Religious Youth publication People Soup. It's hours of history and browsing pleasure! Enjoy them here!

7.19.2005 - Response to Concerns Raised by the Decision to Withdraw Support from Con Con
After receiving many comments and responses to the Youth Office's decision in December to withdraw support for Con Con, the Youth Office has posted a response to the concerns raised. We hope this will bring some closure on this issue to those who need it.

7.19.2005 - The Safe Congregations Handbook
The UUA Bookstore is now offering The Safe Congregation Handbook: Nurturing Healthy Boundaries in Our Faith Communities edited by Pat Hoertdoerfer and Fredric Muir. The manual provides clear procedures, policies and workshops for creating, supporting and nurturing safe and healthy boundaries in our faith communities. This thorough guide explores the important, widespread and complex social issues of interpersonal violence and abuse. Features a great chapter by Sarah Gibb about safety in Youth Groups!

7.13.2005 - The Consultation on Ministry to and With Youth
The UUA Board of Trustees has approved the process recommendation of the Consultation on Ministry to and With Youth. This is an exciting process by which the UUA and its member districts and congregations will revision the way we do youth ministry over the next two years. Learn about the process here!

6.20.2005 - Youth Council Pre-Packet is Online
If you're a member of YRUU's Youth Council, you'll want to get a head-start on your reading for the July 21-30 meeting of Youth Council this year in Boone, IA!

6.15.2005 - New Book on Children and and Youth Development !
Nurturing Children and Youth: A Developmental Guidebook
by Tracey L. Hurd is now available from the UUA Bookstore! It's an indispensable tool to child and youth development. Using current research and practice, outlines typical progressions in physical, cognitive, social, emotional, moral and spiritual development for each age group. Includes key characteristics at each phase of development, points for supporting the child in the context of UUism and a thorough list of resources.

6.14.2005 - New Resources!
We've added a few more resources to our contributed resources page! New contributions include a congregational YRUU group bylaws, a letter for recruiting youth advisors, recommendations for education & training for youth advisors, and a sample ceremony for youth bridging into young adulthood.

6.1.2005 - New Staff for the Youth Office!
The Youth Office is please to announce two new staff members! Lily Sparks has joined us as the new June YRUU Programs Specialist, and Beth Dana has joined us as a Youth Ministry Associate. Sadly this means we have to say goodbye to YPS Betty Jeanne Rueters-Ward, whom Lily is replacing...

• Read about their jobs!
• Read their bios!
• Read Betty Jeanne's going-away letter!

5.28.2005 - Synapse is Here!
The spring 2005 issue of Synapse is here and it's one of our best issues yet! The theme is "Sexuality" and there are articles, resources, opinion pieces, and much more! We're also looking for sumbissions for our fall issue - the theme: Spirituality. We also have an announcement about more changes coming to the way Synapse is published. Read about all of that here!

5.2.2005 - More Local Youth Group Resources Available!
More resources have been added to our Contributed Resources page! Some youth advisor job descriptions, and some congregational YAC bylaws... Check them out and please contribute your own resources!

4.4.2005 - Help Prevent Teen Suicide
In order to help prevent suicide among our youth, we've provided links to some important resources and groups that work in this area. Read more here.

3.23.2005 - Consultation on Youth Ministry
Many of you have been asking and wondering about the recent Consultation on Youth Ministry, the beginning of a process though wehich we revision the way the UUA does Youth Ministry. Here is a letter from UUA President Bill Sinkford and Youth Trustee Megan Dowdell with preliminary outcomes. Keep an eye on this page for more announcements about this process.

3.23.2005 - New Web Page for Your Resources!
The Youth Office has created a new page for resources generated by congregational youth groups, and by district/regional youth committees! It's pretty empty now, and that why we need you to contribute to it!

Do you have a cool resource you've developed in your area? A new policy about such-and-such? A new structure for your YAC or DYSC? Check out the page and send us stuff to put on it!

3.23.2005 - New Resource About District/Regional Youth Committees!
YAC-ocracy is a collection of models of the different ways that the different UUA Districts and CUC Regions handle the management and governance of their Youth-Adult Committees or District Youth Steering Committees. Note: This is a living resource, and we still need contributions a number of districts. See if you're one of them!

3.23.2005
Revision of Deep Fun!
Deep Fun: A Compendium of YRUU Games and Activities is one of the Youth Office's most popular publications, and now it's updated for 2005! We've updated it with a few new games, energizers, and a number of helpful hints for making the old games more accessible to people with different ability and comfort levels. Look for Deep Fun as a chapter of the new and revised revised Youth Group Handbook, due out in late 2005!!
Browseable Deep Fun and Printable Deep Fun

3.11.2005 - New Section on Education Reform and Multiculturalism
Education Reform and Multiculturalism is YRUU's Working Action Issue (WAI). We've just added a new section for this WAI on our Amazing Page of Social Justice Links. Check it out!

3.3.2005 - New Youth Office Staff to Start in June!
The Youth Office is thrilled to announce the hiring of two new staff members who will begin in June, after Betty Jeanne Rueters-Ward leaves.

Lily Jee Yung Sparks will serve as the new YRUU Programs Specialist. Currently residing in Somerville, Mass., she is a former member of both the YRUU and DRUUMM Youth and Young Adult Steering Committees. As part of her work she will specialize in social justice programming, youth ministry trainings, and supporting GLBTQQ youth.

Beth Dana will serve as in the one-year, one-time position of Youth Ministry Associate, supporting the UUA's initiative on ministry to and with youth. Currently studying at New York University, Beth is a Steering Committee member of the newly forming UU White Anti-Racist Allies organization, and has planned and led various youth ministry trainings across the continent.

1.7.2005
Grants Available!
Monetary grants are available from both the Youth Office and from YRUU! Learn more about them here! The first deadline is February 15th, so act now!

1.21.2005 - Resource on Saftey for Children and Youth in Congregations
The UUA's Congregational Services Staff Group has posted a resource called "Balancing Acts" by the Rev. Debra Haffner about keeping children and youth in congregations safe from sexual abuse. Read about it here.

1.4.2005
Web Project on Sexuality
The Youth Office, the Office of Young Adult and Campus Ministry, and the Washington Office for Advocacy have collaborated on a new web project for Advocacy on Sexuality Education, Reproductive Choice, and Gender Equality. Check it out here! This is a growing project and will be expanded as time goes on, so bookmark it and keep checking back!

12.15.2004
Con Con Decision
After a long process and careful consideration, the Youth Office has made the difficult decision to stop providing staff support for the YRUU Continental Conference "Con Con", effectively discontinuing the conference as it has been known. Read more about the decision here.

12.7.2004
SWAT PoAT is Online!
The SWAT PoAT (pronounced “swat pot”), or Super Working Action Team Packet of Activist Tools, is a new resource for youth and youth allies who want to learn more about, or organize around, YRUU’s Working Action Issue, Education Reform and Multiculturalism. It includes resource lists, possible workshops you can put on in your youth group, information about YRUU’s social justice structure, and much, much more! Print it out, and share it with your friends, fellow students, and youth group members – be sure to tell us how you use it, and what you’d like us to add! Click here to download an electronic version (large download!) For a print copy, contact the Youth Office.

12.3.2004 Synapse is Online!
The Fall 2004 edition of the YRUU magazine Synapse is now online and in the mail to subscribers. Read it online now!

12.2.2004 Updated Resource on Conscientious Objection
The UUA Washington Office has updated their amazing resource on Conscientious Objection - A legal procedure to refuse to fight in the military for religious or moral reasons. Check it out here!

11.16.2004 - Major Updates to Online Reources
Thanks to some new technology, we've been able to update our resource page to include downloadable, printable pdf versions of almost every print resource the Youth Office offers, including all our major documents and all our online documents.

11.16.2004 - New Resource for Youth!
Get Involved in UUism! is a comprehensive resource for youth who want to get involved in UUism beyond YRUU! Information and insight about getting involved in UU leadership at every level from local to continental. A must for any youth group ready to take UUism by storm!

9.30.2004 - New Resource on the Iraq War
The Youth Office has developed a brief new resource for youth wanting to do something about the war in Iraq. It's called: The Iraq War. What Can I Do?

9.29.2004 - School of the Americas Convergence
Each year, a group of UU Youth and Young Adults gather at the March and Vigil at the School of the Americas, a US government-run terrorist training camp in Columbus, GA. UUs and their friends and allies will be staying at the UU church in Columbus during the weekend; food will also be provided. The group will be asking for a $10-$20 donation to cover the cost. Visit the School of the Americas Watch website for more details and for a ride board. Becca Sender will be coordinating the UU presence there; for more information email her or call her at 339-368-0240. Note: this event is not being coordinated by the Youth Office, nor is it sponsored by YRUU. We are just helping out with publicity.

9.13.2004 Regional Campus Ministry Trainings
The UUA Office of Young Adult and Campus Ministry is offering multiple regional trainings this fall for young UUs who want to start or maintain UU groups on their college campus. Learn more here!

7.1.2004
Synapse!
The Spring 2004 Issue of Synapse is now online here!

6.7.2004
Common Ground III Survey
The governing body of YRUU is considering calling a new "Common Ground" meeting, similar to the meetings that created YRUU over 20 years ago. The purpose of this meeting would be to bring many youth and adults together to do a major revisioning of YRUU. We want your input! Please take this survey (it should take about 1/2 hour) and give us your feedback. Surveys completed before July 15, 2004 will inform the work of Youth Council 2004 on this issue. Surveys completed after that time will inform the work of any working group that comes out of Youth Council to address this issue. (If you have problems with the web version of the survey, you can download a printable version or contact the Youth Office and we will mail you one.)

5.13.2004
Youth Council 2004
Youth Council 2004 will be held in Whittier, CA (near Los Angeles) August 2 - 8. This is the annual meeting of YRUU's governing body. All the spots for this year's Youth Council are already filled. Click here for more information about Youth Council.

4.2.2004 - YRUU Email Lists!
We've made a new page on the web site which shows you all of the different YRUU Email Lists, including a brand new email list, YRUU-Announce.

3.12.2004
Youth Council Resolution Archive Updated
The YRUU Youth Council Resolution Archive is finally up to date, and the most recent Youth Council and Steering Committee meeting minutes are available for reading. Also, see the updated list of Youth Council Representatives, and send us updates if your district has them!

1.21.2004 - Coming to Tour the Youth Office?
Want to come visit us in the Youth Office? There are some new guidelines you should know about!

1.21.2004
A Smaller Youth Office Staff
Last spring, the UUA (along with most other not-for-profit organizations) began facing financial difficulties due to the sluggish economy. Major reductions in expenses were necessary, it was decided that in order to minimize layoffs, a number of UUA staff who were naturally leaving their positions (due to retirement, end of contract, etc.) would not be replaced.

Sadly, one of these positions was the January YPS position. The earliest we can hope to see this position reinstated would be January 2006.

This change has finally been realized, and there are now two YPSs instead of three, making a total of four instead of five Youth Office staff. While we have restructured the job description of the YPSs to try to accomodate this reduction in staff, we are still adjusting to the change. We appreciate your patience and support as we adjust to this transition.

1.14.2004
New YPS Selected!
In early January, the YRUU Steering Committee met and selected Betty Jeanne Rueters-Ward for the one-year YRUU Programs Specialist position, starting in June! We're excited that she will be joining us! If you'd like to work with Betty Jeanne, you should apply for the YPS position starting in September (see 1.6.2004 on the right).

1.9.2004
Penpal Web Site for Canadian Youth
Check it out Here!

1.7.2004
New Resource for Hiring Paid Youth Advisors!
Here's everything a Youth Group or Religious Educator would want to know about hiring a paid congregational youth advisor: Seven Steps to Hiring a Paid Youth Advisor

10.30.2003
New and Revised Youth Advisor Handbook Now Available!!
The long-awaited revision of our most popular publication, The Youth Advisor Handbook, is now available from the UUA Bookstore.

10.10.2003 New Clickable YRUU District Map!
By popular request, we now have a clickable map where you can find links to information about Youth Programming in your area!

7.29.2003 YPS Mimi LaValley Out of Jail and In the Youth Office!
Mimi's sentence finished in late July (see below for details) and she is in the Youth Office for one final month before being replaced by fellow SOA prisoner of conscience Jason Lydon in September.

4.29.2003 YPS Mimi LaValley Begins 3-Month Prison Term
Mimi has begun her prison term for her non-violent protest at the School of the Americas Watch Vigil in November (details below). She will be at the following address until late July:

Michelle LaValley
#91371-020
FCI Danbury
33 1/2 Pembroke Rd.
Danbury, CT 06811-3099

Please write to her and let her know that YRUU supports prisoners of conscience. (Do not send packages; there is a special protocol for that.)

2.12.2003- YRUU Programs Specialist Mimi LaValley Sentenced to 3 Months in Prison for Non-Violent Protest
YPS Mimi LaValley, together with Jason Lydon (a UU Youth), Laurel Albina (a UUA employee in the Young Adult & Campus Ministry Office), and Doris Reed (a UU from New York) have all received their sentences from a federal court for their involvement in the November Vigil for the victims of the School of the Americas.

In the following links you can find information about the November events and Mimi and Laurel's personal statements, information about the sentences they received, and information about the School of the Americas Watch.

1.30.2003- Resource for Youth Experiencing Fear or Trauma
We contacted a number of ministers on the UU Trauma Response Ministry Board, UU clergy who specialize in pastoral care for trauma sufferers. With their input, we've been able to compile a list of resources you might find helpful. Click here.

1.30.2003 - Could I Be Drafted into Fighting in Iraq?
If you are male and between the ages of 18-25, there's a chance that you might be drafted to fight in Iraq. If you want to register for the draft as a Conscientious Objector, the UU Washington Office offers a good resource for information on C.O. status. Check it out here!

1.06.2003 - From YACs to SACs is now on-line!
Check out this fun, detailed and thorough guide for organizing district youth and young adult activities. Writing bylaws, purpose statements, conference planning and more are included in this fifty page resource. For more details, click here.

11.05.2002 - Could I Be Drafted into Fighting in Iraq?
If you are male and between the ages of 18-25, there's a chance that you might be drafted to fight in Iraq. If you want to register for the draft as a Conscientious Objector, the UU Washington Office offers a good resource for information on C.O. status. Check it out here!

9.19.2002 - Deep Fun is Online!
The Compendium of YRUU Games and Activities is now available for anyone with an internet connection! Well... mostly. Check it out here.

08.10.2002 - THE NEW SITE IS HERE
After a complete make-over, the new YRUU site is finally here!!! (**CHEERS**) We hope that visitors will more easily be able to access information that they are looking for. Special thank you to Matt Moore and Tim Fitzgerald for their help. Some newer pages are more vacant with information, the sitemap is still in the works, and the most recent issue of Synapse isn't up yet, so please bear with us in this time of transition. ALSO, If you have any suggestions or comments about the new site, we would definitely appreciate it. Email yruu@uua.org. Thanks!

03.21.2002 - SYNAPSE is going on-line only.
Due to budget cuts throughout the UUA, the YRUU publication Synapse will, after 20 years of being a printed magazine, become exclusively an "on-line publication." It is one of many publications of the UUA having to change format due to lack of funding. Those of us in the Youth Office are greatly saddened by this occurrence. We are currently working on compiling the last hard-copy version of Synapse. Thank you to the 15,000 people currently subscribed to Synapse (and all those who came before) who have supported us with their thoughts, writing, art, and dedication. We hope you continue to be avid readers and contributors during our new formatting endeavors. If you have any questions or comments you can call the Youth office at (617) 948-4350, or you can e-mail the Youth Office at yruu@uua.org.

9.12.2001 - Youth Office's Response to The Tragedy
We here in the Youth Office can not adequately describe the grieving and pain that many are going through right now. We have created a short resource for those of you who are having trouble or are looking for help processing the horrific events of yesterday. Keep the Faith.