“Our young people deserve our focus, and we can’t give them that if we are not working shoulder to shoulder with them as partners,” — Mayor Brandon M. Scott.
Mayor Brandon M. Scott's Youth Summit 2025: EmpowHER is here!!
In 2021, Mayor Scott tasked MOCFS with launching an annual youth summit and other youth centered events to bring attention to youth-centered issues within Baltimore City. Events like the youth summit, create the opportunity for Mayor Scott to engage with our youth in person and in a meaningful way. This enhances the conversation between young people and influential people in the community, and in honor of Women's History Month this year, we are offering a safe space where young women can feel seen and heard. Check out photos and recap below.
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MAYOR BRANDON M. SCOTT’S YOUTH SUMMIT 2025: EmpowHER!
Join us for an engaging event featuring interactive breakout rooms on money management, dressing for success, hygiene and healing. There will also be a Q&A session with Mayor Brandon Scott, live entertainment, valuable resources, and an opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals. Don’t miss this exciting experience!
A celebration of women’s contributions to history, culture and society! We want Baltimore City young women to join us for a day of entertainment and inspiration. The Mayor’s Youth Summit EmpowerHER 2025, will be held on March 14th from 10:30 a.m. - 3:30p.m. at the Baltimore Convention Center with interactive breakout sessions, professional development activities and more.
Our event is dedicated to empowering young women by:
✅ Providing essential skills and tools for success in school, work, and life.
✅ Offering guidance on mental health, healthy hygiene, money management, and preparing for summer jobs.
✅ Creating opportunities to ask questions and gain access to vital information that is often out of reach.
✅ Encouraging the community to support and engage with young women in Baltimore City in a meaningful and ongoing way.
Join us for an inspiring and impactful experience!
MAYOR BRANDON M. SCOTT’S BALTIMORE YOUTH SUMMIT HISTORY #BMORE4THEFUTURE
2023- MAYOR BRANDON M. SCOTT’S YOUTH SUMMIT: LEADHERSHIP- Success Starts with a DREAMHER,
This year's summit, resources, a panel discussion, Q&A, live entertainment and more centered around identifying and realizing your dreams.
2022- Getting to the Bag: The Pathways to Business, Entrepreneurship and Career Development in Baltimore
Getting to the Bag: The Pathways to Business, Entrepreneurship and Career Development in Baltimore, had interactive breakout sessions, panel discussions, professional development activities and more.
In partnership with YouthWorks, the goals of the summit are to 1) connect youth to local entrepreneurs that can provide their expertise across a wide range of topics 2) provide skills and tools needed for youth to begin and/or continue their entrepreneurship or career journey 3) provide an opportunity for youth to ask questions and have access to vital information that is typically inaccessible to them 4) encourage the business community to engage with youth in Baltimore City in an intentional and ongoing way.
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2021- A Conversation with Mayor Scott and Baltimore Youth: Building a Better, Safer City Together
“Our young people deserve our focus, and we can’t give them that if we are not working shoulder to
shoulder with them as partners. This [summit created] the opportunity to start to do just that around
an issue of critical importance for our city: violence.”
—Mayor Brandon M. Scott
One of Mayor Brandon M. Scott’s four driving themes for his administration is Prioritizing Our Youth: Investing in the promise of our young people instead of their failures, and ensuring they have a seat at the table. To advance this priority, Mayor Scott tasked the Mayor’s Office of Children & Family Success with launching a bi-annual youth summit: In the wake of a recent spike in violent incidents in the city, the first summit focused on violence prevention.
The Mayor’s Youth Summit—Building A Better, Safer City Together—included three conversations with the mayor and youth over three days, May 20-22, 2021.
Because young Black and Brown men experience violence at disproportionately high rates, the first two conversations were in-person, small-group dialogues with boys and young men of color. The third and final conversation was a much larger, virtual event open to all youth, featuring a dialogue with the mayor, breakout sessions on the city’s violence prevention plan, youth resource booths, youth performances and activities, prizes and incentives.
Youth attended the summit and touched on recurring themes across the three conversations.
What they want: financial education, entrepreneurship opportunities, job training and jobs, mentorship and a relevant school curricula
What they need: a clean city, to help reduce youth food insecurity and youth homelessness
What they want to know: about Mayor Scott’s story and what it’s like to be mayor, what the city will do about gun violence and how they can be part of solutions
Press release: Mayor Scott Holds First Youth Summit, Giving Youth a Seat at the Table on Issues Impacting Them Most