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The URI collaborates with other interfaith partners and civic organizers locally, nationally and internationally on youth projects. For example:
Initiating the second annual National Day of Interfaith Youth Service in the United States with the Interfaith Youth Core (three URI Circles participated, more than 20 service projects total); In one service project, 60 religiously diverse young people ages 12 ? 35 took part in an Interfaith Youth Action Retreat in the San Francisco Bay Area - Global Healing with Youthful Hands: Diminishing Biases Through Faith and Service.
Facilitating and presenting at the Conference on Interfaith Youth Work, Chicago, IL, USA (May 16-19, 2004);
Sponsoring and publicizing the National Youth Violence Prevention Campaign hosted by the Guidance Channel and National Students Against Violence Everywhere through URI's international and national networks in 2005.
Facilitating youth workshops and youth networking at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Barcelona (July 4-13, 2004).
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