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Getting involved is easy. TYA is always looking for new members, organizational sponsors, and politically connected individuals. Our monthly meetings are open to anyone who wishes to attend so get connected today and be a part of something amazing. TYA members travel to local, state and national centers of government to tell our personal stories, speak our truths about our views on recovery solutions and explain to policymakers how more help in the form of funding and access is absolutely necessary. Members also travel to conferences,...
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About Us The Texas Youth Advocates for Legislative Change, formerly The Texas Teens, was formed in 1999 through the inspiration of members of the Texas Association of Addiction Professionals to provide a counterpoint to those people in this country who can only see the disease of addiction and not the hope of recovery. Today’s Texas Youth Advocates are young men and women who have a passion for helping others, a message of hope through treatment and recovery, and a desire to change the way that policymakers view those with the disease of...
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Representing today’s youth who have struggled with the disease of addiction, we, The Texas Youth Advocates humbly carry the message of hope and recovery through substance abuse intervention, prevention and treatment. Through our personal stories, and those of our families, we set forth to increase public attention and to put a face on the ever-increasing problem of insufficient and underfunded treatment, with the hope that our country’s elected officials may join us in our daily fight for a responsive and proactive solution.
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