Leadership Clark County

One of the themes for this year's community projects was arts & culture. This team set out to create a tool that will help increase foot traffic for first weekend art events across the county. Partnering with leadership from each of the first weekend art walks in Vancouver, Camas, and Battle Ground, and with the infrastructure provided by Visit Vancouver, the team created a mobile friendly pass. (link below)

This pass has a map with each participating small business and event spaces throughout the county. Each month, program leaders will connect with the team at Visit Vancouver to provide any updates on participating spaces, thereby connecting the weekend art walks occurring throughout Clark County and, hopefully, helping increase foot traffic for all!

Congratulations to team members Emma Montague, Aliess Kingsley, Laura Yoccabel-Dibble, Cath Busha, and Shannon Lambert and thank you to mentor Toby Lucich!

Check out the mobile pass here!
https://www.visitvancouverwa.com/art-walks/

Our next project team from the Class of 2026 we would like to highlight partnered with Meals on Wheels People to support a pilot program providing pet food to clients. The team provided a strategic roadmap to identify mission-aligned partners, sources of free or discounted pet food, and opportunities to raise awareness of the program. Their goal was to keep seniors and their pets together and fed.

Congratulations team JLAKEM on an amazing project!
Mentor, Jay Thomas, Community Partner, Maggie Thurman, team members, Ashley Jones, Lauren Wooten, Kelley Brown, Mason Kae, and Eric Lambert.

Our next project team we would like to highlight calls themselves Momentum Five +1. This amazing team partnered with Educational Opportunities for Children and Families (EOCF) to support its five-year goals focused on community engagement, visibility, and enrollment growth.

Through interviews, surveys, a SWOT analysis, and a review of current outreach efforts, the team developed the “Momentum Playbook”—a practical, relationship-centered strategy. This work focused on improving communication, increasing accessibility for families, and strengthening community connections.

Key recommendations included simplifying enrollment, increasing brand visibility, building stronger referral partnerships, and implementing measurable outreach strategies. The team was grateful for the opportunity to support EOCF’s continued impact and the important work they do for families in our community.

Thank you to amazing team members, Reuben Cottingham, Kristi Boon, Dani Reyes, Kristen Gillis, Katie Favela, Kyra Phelps and mentor Carmen Canada!

Each year our LCC class members complete projects with local non profits to help solve a challenge or need. This year the class chose their own community partner base on themes from the Community Needs Assessment Report. Over the next week we will highlight each team, their community partner, and the amazing accomplishments they made throughout the year.

Our first team had an environment theme and through an environmental justice lens, the team partnered with CRESA (Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency) to address heat safety in the Maplewood neighborhood of Vancouver, WA—an identified urban heat island—using two targeted strategies. They developed and distributed bilingual heat safety flyers to support community awareness, and they also produced a policy brief focused on advancing cooling equity across Clark County that was presented to Vancouver City Council, and hopefully will be adopted.

Congratulations to Sarah Mittleman, Devon Lobato, Reed Wiesneski, Alex Bates, Mary Hurly, and Sav Durkin on completing an outstanding project. We are also thankful to project mentor, Jessica Garnes, and Community Partner, Scott Johnson.

Kick off for the Class of 2027 is just around the corner and there are TWO spots remaining!

Final interviews will take place on June 16th. Reach out if you know someone who would be a great candidate for the program or apply below if you are interested!

https://www.leadershipclarkcounty.com/apply-now/

We still have openings for our LCC Youth Leadership Summit!

Taking place this June 22nd-26th, no fee to attend thanks to OnPoint Community Credit Union, and open to next year's Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors.

LCC Youth Leadership Summit is a week long program that will give students not only leadership skills, but will educate them on the systems in Clark County, the key issues they are facing, individuals and businesses doing the work to make a difference, and how students can get involved in the community as well as their school.

Applications will be open through June 12th or until spots are filled.
https://forms.gle/in4kSiny472bLniD8

Congratulations to the LCC Graduating Class of 2026 and thank you to Riverview Bank Riverview Bank for your sponsorship and continued support.

Last night we heard from many amazing speakers including CEO and President of Riverview Bank, Nicole Sherman, Ridgefield City Manager and Keynote Speaker, Steve Stuart, and this year's Class Speaker, Deken Letinich. We also highlighted the community impact projects created by this year's class and honored their hard work throughout the year.

And even though we made the class take a million group pictures throughout the last nine months, we managed to forget to take a group picture last night, so here they are in the beginning at the retreat! 😂

We still have room in this year's Youth Leadership Summit, taking place from June 22nd-June 26th. This program is open to incoming Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors and is free to attend, thanks to OnPoint Community Credit Union!

Applications are open now and due by May 29th.
Apply Here https://forms.gle/eaSQj3TqXJWi3XHm8

Check out the video below from last year's Youth Summit.
https://youtu.be/jNQBgv0sylc?si=DcydyJmXtV0Pip36

LCC Youth Summit 2025 Highlights from our Leadership Clark County Youth Summit Class of 2025.

LCC Class of 2026 retreat weekend ❤️

Less than 2.5 hours to go and we have just over $600 to go to meet our goal!

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Thanks to your donations, we are able to provide 30 high school students with a week long Youth Leadership Summit, including the amazing LCC bus fieldtrip day, at no cost to the student.

Thanks to your donations, we are continuing our alumni education opportunities through DEIB Lunch & Learns and have 4 scheduled between Oct-May!

Thanks to your donations, we are able to give out over $15k is scholarships for the past three years, and hope to grow that to $20k for next years class.

Help is meet our goal and donate now.
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