About our Organizing Collaborative
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2024-2025
advocacy summits dates
This year the Jesuit Youth Advocacy Summits will be held in coordination with a wider- US Church effort to be “Pilgrims of Hope for Creation.” Our youth will lead advocacy summits as part of larger pilgrimages of hope in action.
For more information on the Northwest effort, join the Washington State Laudato S'i’ Movement Launch Call on February 11th at
At the Capitol, before meeting with Legislators and Legislative staff, students participate in a public witness to share their experiences related to their top social concerns: housing, ecology, and migration.
Video of the 2023 California Jesuit Advocacy Summit, made for us by Jess Carbajal of Loyola High Los Angeles!
Jesuit advocacy summits
Save the Dates for Advocacy 2025
This year some of the Jesuits West Youth Advocacy Summits will be held in coordination with a wider- US Church effort to be “Pilgrims of Hope for Creation.”
Our youth will lead advocacy summits as part of larger pilgrimages of hope in action. For more information about each summit, click below.
Arizona Jesuit Advocacy summit
January 29, 2025
Aliento Education Day, phoenix
Following up on their recent victory on in-state tuition, students, parishioners and Jesuit leaders are continuing their work on migration, climate and housing. This Summit is co-led by students at Brophy College Preparatory and coordinated by ALIENTO.
April 6 - April 7, 2025
Jesuit high Sacramento
Join students from across California as they lead all California Jesuit works in a day of prayer, reflection and advocacy. See video.
February 27, 28 - march 1, 2025
Bellarmine Prep & Seattle university
Parishioners, students, Jesuits, social ministry leaders and others will come together for a 3-day summit moving through the pastoral cycle and helping us understand how we make justice real in our local context. Participants will engage in direct encounter with local experts, university faculty, and do direct advocacy with local officials.
Contact UWeJustice@Jesuits.org for more information.
Intergenerational conversations
on faith and justice
in preparation for the summits, jesuit school students will be inviting ministries in their area to small group intergenerational conversations on serving a faith that does justice.
These conversations will be led by students, but provide an opportunity for adults and youth to listen to one another and share their own perspectives. Together, adults and youth will pray, dialogue and discern how they’re being called to support one another on issues of justice and ecology. Conversations will be held in early November, organized by the local works with template materials and any desired logistical support provided by the Province.
For more information or to set up an intergenrrational conversation in your local area, contact UWEJustice@Jesuits.org
Register a screening of the letter
Host a local showing of the Pope Francis’s new film about his encyclical on ecology
more about our organizing collaborative
Jesuits West CORE is made up of 4 regionally based CORE teams, composed of representatives from local Jesuit works, in cities spanning from Alaska to Arizona.
Impelled by our shared Catholic Faith, Jesuit Charisms, and the needs of our community and our world to hear the call for Racial Equity, our teams are listening, learning, organizing and advocating together to be a more powerful force for racial equity and justice.
Resources for CORE COORDINATORS
A private resource folder for CORE Coordinators, including the application for the CORE Micro-Grants