📝 About Us

The NorCal Deaf Youth Alliance (NDYA) provides leadership development, mentorship, and enrichment programs for Deaf and Hard of Hearing young people ages 10-21 across Northern California. Our flagship program is the annual summer leadership camp in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where teens build confidence, explore Deaf identity, and develop self-advocacy skills in an all-ASL environment. NDYA also runs an after-school mentorship program pairing Deaf high schoolers with Deaf college students and professionals, a college prep workshop series, and a youth advisory board that gives teens a voice in organizational decisions.