In 1922, women from Calvary Episcopal Church and St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral established the Church Mission of Help, based on an outreach mission program at Trinity Episcopal Church in New York City. The program focused delinquent women and girls over sixteen who found themselves in difficult situations. The program was run by volunteers until 1924 when the first staff person was hired, Miss Theresa de Birmingham, as Executive Secretary. In 1925, Miss Agnes Grabau became Executive Secretary and served in that capacity until 1960. During her tenure, many changes occurred. The agency's name was changed to Youth Service on May 21, 1947, and the mission was expanded to include boys and to provide vocational counseling in 1948.
In 1962, the agency was incorporated as an independent non-profit organization known as Youth Service in Memphis. The Rev. Donald E. Mowery was hired as Executive Director in 1963 and served until 1994 when he retired. In the past, the agency had provided services to young people in its office. Father Don took his work to the streets. The agency became one of the first in Memphis to integrate its programs. During the civil unrest that followed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., it became increasingly difficult to find outdoor spaces to hold integrated activities. This prompted a partnership with the Naval Air Station in Millington. In 1988, a community volunteer, Rebecca Webb Wilson, brought a program called Bridge Builders to Youth Service. Her idea was to bring together high school students from diverse backgrounds for summer conferences and year-long activities that would build leadership skills while simultaneously forging ties between future leaders of the community. The program b...
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...nute of it. To get to the point he is at now, Mario has acquired countless hours of training. Being a participant in the program, manager’s training, college degrees, and youth training conferences have all prepared Mario to perform his job to the best of his abilities. Mario is very passionate about his profession and truly believes that youth can make a difference. Having experienced the program first-hand as a child, Mario is aware of the thoughts and feelings students may experience. Mario uses this information to modify the program to be able to touch as many students as possible. As Mario stands at the graduation from the program each year, he looks out at the many faces about to embark on a new adventure into the real world. His only hope is that the teachings they acquired will be put into action to create a better tomorrow for themselves and the community.
Throughout the years of being a student at Council Rock, I have come to the realization of what a true leader is. A leader is not someone that just plans events, collects money, or shows up to meetings. Rather, this is someone that has a true connection with their peers, and has unmatched passion for what they do. With this, I can confidently say that since seventh grade, as a young adult, I have been shaped into an individual that fits these traits. Since that time, I have been involved in student government,
“Do I have to go? I mean, it’s not required for me to finish high school or anything. It’s just something you want me to do,” I pleaded with my parents. “Yes you have to go and there’s no way you’re going to get out of it either. It’ll be a good experience for you, and you might even make some new friends,” my father replied. Tomorrow I was going to HOBY, which stands for Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Seminar. It is specifically for sophomores in high school and I was chosen to be one of the candidates to represent my school for the year twenty fifteen. There are many HOBYs around the United States, but I was going to HOBY Ohio West located at the Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio. The seminar started on June fourth and concluded on the seventh. This was a four day event and I wouldn’t see my family for two of the days. I had just turned sixteen in April and I had never stayed more than an hour away from my family for a night or two. It was very nerve-wracking for me, but I had to go no matter what. Little did I know that this experience would make me into the more confident young woman I am today.
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana aka Carlos Santana was born July 20 1947 in Autlan de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico with a father of musical arts. When at the age of five he took up the violin which then developed his interested in music. Years later after his family moved to Tijuana it was then he began to play with the guitar, the instrument that would lead to his greatness. He was fascinated and surpassed his guitar heroes; they were John Lee Hooker, T. Bone Walker, and B.B. King. In 1961 Santana moved from Mexico to San Francisco, United States. In 1965 he graduated from Mission High school to then supported his family by getting a job as a dishwasher. He loved the San Francisco music scene, so to be able see his favorite artists he would sneak into Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium, like artists such as Muddy Waters & The Grateful Dead and Various musicians who sang jazz rock or the blues. Before 1970 Tom Frazier wanted to come up with a band with Tom playing the guitar, Santana playing the guitar & vocals, Mike Carabello playing the Percussion, Rod Harper playing the Drums, Gus Rodriguez playing bass guitar and a Settle native Gregg Rolie playing the organ & also doing vocals and they formed the "Santana's Blues Band." Later on the band became known as "Santana" with Santana, Rolie, David Brown on Bass, Bob Livingston on Drums and Marcus Malone on the Percussion. There has been curiousity on how the band picks up the Latin influence. Neither Santana or Rolie had an sympathy for the style. It has been known that Santana & Rolie hang out at the San Francisco Aquatic Park with conga players where they would get together and play music. At that time in his life he was being exposed to all kinds of music in San Francisco. In the Bay Area Gabor Szabo became one of Santana's Favorites, having a Latin Percussion to the band girls would dance to the beat of his music. Santana found out that the audience enjoyed the Latin Percussion and it was a key element in his music.
At the end of my junior year of high school I was told that I was chosen, along with one other junior boy, to be a primary delegate to attend Badger Boys State, a week long youth program at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin that brings more than eight hundred and fifty boys together to learn about leadership and the United States Government. Although only one week of my life, I can confidently say that Badger Boys State is one of the best and most significant experiences I have ever had.
Finally, as a member of the Student Leadership Council, I have developed meaningful relationships with peers, advisors and community leaders, some who share my views and others whose views are utterly different from mine. I have been able to grow tremendously from my association with Students Against Destructive Decisions. Thus, it is my desire to continue volunteering for the Students Against Destructive Decisions Student Leadership Council, even after I graduate from high school, because it has been such a meaningful and rewarding experience. It is my hopes that I will be able to some day facilitate a Students Against Destructive Decisions Program in my community, as there is an urgent need for positive adult mentors.
...g of the struggle of poverty and subsequent educational barriers. Though extremely grateful for all of the privilege in my life, it was difficult to realize my fortune until working with the teens at RYP who often do not have two parents, have limited adult influences, and live below the poverty line, making education an afterthought. From the perspective of a tutor and mentor, the educational support that the teens require is unquestionable, just like the injustices they face daily. Through service, not only does one gain perspective into the needs of the local community, but also insight into systemic issues of racism, poverty, crime, education and more. By participating in service and trying to counteract the sources of need for others, one will undoubtedly change their perspective of the framework question, knowing that the very least one should help others.
During this past summer I had the opportunity to travel to the Washington Leadership Conference (WLC), where I learned about leadership, citizenship, and service. During the conference we met in what was called large groups and community groups. Each community group had their own unique name, with some being called “revolutionaries” or the “legacies”, but the name of my group was the “Rough Riders”. At the time I really did not know much about the history of the Rough Riders or their impact in history, but after some research and watching a movie based on this story I was able to see a real life example of what lea...
The program will be named Let Me Be Me (L.M.B.M). The program will help teens find out where they belong in society. The program will embrace teens who are misunderstood by the community. I developed this program because Tre seems confused through the entire movie. In my opinion, Tre was confused because he felt like the harsh environment, he was raised in wasn’t for him. He did not know where to belong. Doughboy felt the same way as a child that's why he made a family within a gang. If there were programs that he could have turned to instead of a gang, I feel he would have chosen the program. He needed someone who cares. The goal is to provide structure to the teens and their lives. The program will show the teens that there is a place within the program for them. The activities of the program will be to interact with other teens in a positive way, listen to motivator speaker every two weeks, exercises that help the teens express their feelings and create one goal and stick to
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In the end the students, by revealing their fears and expressing their emotions, overcame the limits set by family and school, the ones that "spit on them" . They realized that they are "immunized" to authority and that they can change their worlds, that they have multi-faceted personalities. And so do Holmes, Hughes, and Bowie. Even a "criminal" can win the heart of a "princess". John Bender was a better teacher than the system for he taught the Princess, the Jock, the Basketcase, and the Brain who they really were, and most importantly, who they were not.
Plotner, A., Trach, J.,(2010), Leadership development perspectives from community rehabilitation program directors, managers, and direct- service personnel, Journal of Rehabilitation, 76(3), 3-9, Retrieved from EBSCOhost on August 10, 2011.
People often fail to see the life-changing role sports can play for at-risk youth in low-income urban neighborhoods and the need for more sports-based youth programs to reduce crime and increase high school graduation rates in our cities. An article written about a year ago about “Royals, local government team up to open a youth urban baseball academy at 18th and vine,” The Kansas City Mayor calls it a dream and others called it a fairytale. Projects like this don’t come very often, or at least not nearly as often as we’d all like. They are calling it the Kansas City Urban Youth Academy. The possibilities are incredible. On the surface, they will be teaching baseball to kids from 6 to 18 years old, but really, they want to be doing much more than that. The only way communities can progress and build infrastructures like this one in areas that are termed as gang infested areas like this one is by spreading the message of love in community related events such as
In the past four years of my life, volunteer work has left an indelible mark on my heart and mind. When I became a volunteer, I had a very vague notion of leadership. As my high school days come to an end, I am left with the feeling that I have finally come into my own shoes, discovering the things that are important to me and those that are not. I have found my personal leadership style, and I now pay attention to the leaders I come across each day. For this reason, volunteering has been both an enlightening and inspiring experience, for I am surrounded by peers, mentors, and the volunteer program director, all of whom are leaders with creative visions of their own.
As a native of Lancaster, I feel an obligation to act and do something that will benefit my community. I am well aware of the many perils that youth face, and these obstacles can be extremely difficult to overcome without positive figures to aid and provide guidance. There is a great need for an intensive mentoring program within the community to positively influence the lives of youth. For The Land of Dreams, I have proposed to host a community basketball tournament to raise funds to implement a mentoring program to assist in the personal growth and career development of youth in Lancaster County and surrounding areas. The program will form partnerships with local school districts and the juvenile court system. This event will aid Lancaster County by providing additional discretionary resources that will be used to fund such activities as tutoring programs, leadership courses, and college tours.
Currently in Canada, about 42000 youths have mentors through the Big Brothers Big Sisters program and there are still thousands of youth on their waiting list. After learning about how many kids were not able to get mentors, I decided to volunteer with Big Brothers Big sisters as a teen mentor for elementary kids during my last year of highschool. Peer mentoring is not the usual kind of mentoring that people think of. In the conventional type of mentoring, there usually an older individual, one who’s had professional experiences in a certain mentoring field, and an individual seeking these specific services. Peer mentoring is different because the title of the mentor and and the mentee is equal (Holbeche,1996, p.24). The members involved in peer mentoring develope a relationship with one another after either occasional or regular meetings (Holbeche, 1996, p.25). The objective of the relationship is to allow the members to coach each other, help solve problems going on in their lives, and build personal skills. (Holbeche, 1996, p.26). Going into