Youth mentoring

leaders because it allows them to connect more deeply with the members of their section. The section members want a leader that they can see part of themselves in - even if it something as small as a shared interest in a tv show. I learned this while mentoring a class of freshman through the Students Active In Leadership(SAIL) program at the high school. The freshman in my class had to see that I was just as wacky and technically challenged in life as they were before they would respect my…

1. Describe a leadership experience you had that was meaningful to you. My math teacher, Ms. Perry, nominated me to be the Crofton Delegate for the International Rotary Club at the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA). The conference took place February 13th -15th. It was an intense 3-day leadership-training program that was “designed to recognize, encourage, and further develop the leadership skills of 10th, 11th, and 12th grade high school students who have shown a potential for rendering…

Services, Youth and Homeless Outreach, Tobacco Prevention, and Underage Drinking. They also provide education about victimization and have an outreach program to help those who need it. The services that the center offers to help diverse types of people…

Collaboration Council implemented a streamlined method to facilitate the management of best practices across youth service providers in the county. Through the Community of Practice arm of the Collaboration Council, free workshops are provided to youth service providers to promote the use of best practices throughout the county. Some of these workshops include: “LGBT Ally Training,” “Youth Mental Health First Aid,” and “Best Practices in…

want to make a difference in the lives of people in need and children. Because of my experience as a Youth Volunteer Corps (YVC) I realized not only do I love helping people but I want to center my life around helping children. I've been involved in many different types of service activities but the one that has impacted me the most was being a YVC I volunteer over the summers supervising and mentoring children from second to eighth grade. Over each summer I've seen myself and the children…

Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato became the face of the Disney empire, which propelled them to stardom. Miley Cyrus is the daughter of ‘90s country star Billy Ray Cyrus, Cyrus is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Demi Lovato started out as a child actor on Barney & Friends, now she is also an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Disney created an image for Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato as role models for a younger generation, as a result of growing up both…

Upon completing high school, most are meet with the excitement to attend college and want to make some sort of impact on the world. These young kids, or adults, are met with complications down their path which isn’t unusual, most tend to move past these barriers and strive because of them. But one barrier/institution that young high school students face including college students, is anything closely related to prison. This topic is something Alice Goffman tries to cover how we are indeed…

towards vices, there are more forceful interactions then the later. The relationship would be almost one sided, the adolescent trying to fill that need to be wanted, and the mentor taking advantage of their lack of knowledge of the world due to their youth. Furthermore, some corruptive mentors can just be downright…

programs that show the strongest empirical evidence of thwarting youthful offending, whether it is in keeping pre-delinquent behavior from evolving into actual delinquency or in serving as an intermediate intervention program to help reduce recidivism in youths who have already come into contact with the juvenile justice system” (Hess, Page…

LHGH because I wanted to help teenagers to know there are people who have been where they are and felt how they feel, people who have managed to come out of the terrible teenage years better. To help them to have hope for their futures. I started mentoring and counseling with LHGH because I wanted to be of service to a group of individuals that I felt impassioned to stand beside. That group helped me to see where I want to be in my life and what I want to spend my life in service of. I want to…