This report is intended to help understand strategic ways to empower and strengthen the West Contra Costa Youth Commission. It is broken up into 7 parts:

• Background providing context to the district
• Framing around the imperative of youth voice and local opportunity in West Contra Costa
• A description of methods used for this evaluation
• An evaluation of strengths and weaknesses of the current youth commission
• Key findings
• Recommendations for moving forward
• Appendix including notes from interviews and links to student surveys