The Prospect Park Youth Advocate Internship Program intends to gather the intelligent, creative and dedicated young people of Brooklyn to make their biggest and best park a healthy, car-free place to be. The summer-long internship will teach four Brooklyn high school students the ins-and-outs of advocacy and community organizing, while guiding them through the brainstorming, planning and enacting a full-scale advocacy campaign for a car-free Prospect Park. We will also be gathering a force of volunteer Youth Advocates to help with organizing and garnering the support of the young people of Brooklyn. Through series of events like the clocking of speeding motorists, DIY air quality and emissions testing, and an Anti-CARnival which parades through the park at summer's end, all held together by a postcard campaign addressed at Mayor Bloomberg, we hope to convince our elected officials that the users of Prospect Park, and especially the young people who love this patch of green, would be better off without car traffic nearby.






