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The Youth Leadership Camp (YLC) is an annual four-week leadership program for deaf high school students which has been operating in the United States as a non-profit organization since the late 1960s.[1] Youth Leadership Camp activities are conducted in American Sign Language.
From July 27 to August 23, 1969, the first camp was held in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Sixty-four freshmen and sophomore students attended.[2]
From 2005 to the present, the camp has been at Camp Taloali in Stayton, Oregon.[3] Camp Taloali is accredited by the American Camp Association and is associated with the Lions Club in the states of Oregon and Washington.