About The Keystone Center: Youth Policy Summit is a program of The Keystone Center, a nonprofit based in Keystone, Colorado. The Keystone Center's mission is to solve our society's most challenging environmental, energy, and public health problems by bringing together today's public, private and civic sector leaders to confront these issues and arming the next generation with the 21st Century intellectual skills required to effectively approach the questions they will face. Follow the link to learn more about our organization and the work that we do.

 YPS Overview: Youth Policy Summit prepares the future leaders of our nation and the world to analyze problems and build consensus-based solutions. The YPS Overview page provides a description of the program and its most essential components and reviews the mission of YPS as a student-led initiative.

Program Components: In just 8 days, each Youth Policy Summit combines a number of various exercises, activities and trainings to lead students through a collaborative policy process. Click here to learn more about what a week at YPS entails, and how you will spend your time on a program.

YPS in the News: Each year, YPS programs, students, staff and alumni are featured in a variety of newspaper and Internet articles. This section lists our press coverage and provides links so you can read articles from 2005 to the present.