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Youth and Government
YMCA Youth and Government, or Y&G (also known as YMCA Youth in Government) is a YMCA civic engagement and service-learning program in the United States that offers high school students the opportunity to serve in a model government process at the local, state, national, and international levels.

History
The Youth and Government program was established in 1936 in New York by Clement “Pete” Duran, then the Boys Work Secretary of the Albany YMCA.

Present
As of 2010, the program operates in 37 states and the District of Columbia, serving nearly 60,000 high school students every year around the country. The motto of the program is “Democracy must be learned by each generation.” The program has close connections with the YMCA Model United Nations Program, and their activities often overlap.