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State Student Association Development Project

Overview

State Student Associations are coalitions of students on multiple campuses that work together for the common good of the members they represent.  SSAs allow large groups of students to organize on issues and build collective power to win victories that would otherwise not be won by individual campuses.  Strong State Student Associations are important organizations to the national student movement.  State Student Associations organize and advocate for students and ensure that the student voice is heard on the local, statewide, and federal level.

Goals

The State Student Associations (SSA) Project works to accomplish three main priorities in order to build statewide and national power for students across the country. Those priorities are:

  1. Service our member SSAs
  2. Develop statewide infrastructure for students across the country
  3. Continuously build a unified coalition of statewide student organizations to organize and advocate for students on the federal level.

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Membership

Our membership is composed of SSAs throughout the country.

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Trainings and Workshops

The SSA Development Project offers a plethora of trainings and workshops to help strengthen and develop student leaders to work on local, state, and national issues. 

Some of the trainings USSA offers SSAs include:

  • Strategically choosing an issue
  • Understanding relations of power
  • Holding effective accountability sessions
  • Developing strategic coalitions
  • Grassroots fundraising tactics
  • Recruiting volunteers and raising student leaders
  • Meeting facilitation skills
  • Public speaking skills to move your audience to action

USSA also provides trainings and workshops specific to electoral action and reform:

  • Building vote coalitions to develop your organization
  • Get Out the Vote work
  • Expanding voter outreach and identifying audiences
  • Messaging vote work to continue up-swing in youth voter turnout
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