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The Oregon Community Foundation believes that broad citizen involvement is a key to Oregon’s successful future and that youth citizenship education and leadership is especially important.  In the process of national and state education reform, public education’s historical function of training young people for democratic citizenship is being de-emphasized, or even lost.  In response to this concern, OCF funded a research survey and report by an OCF intern on youth civic engagement in Oregon. Read the full report.