[samscommunity] Upcoming Youth Workshop
- From: "WANDA WYLIE" <wwylie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <samscommunity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:16:45 -0500
The X-Change, a Bridging the Gap program, will continue in the tradition of
addressing social and environmental issues affecting youth. Youth will
participate in trainings that address conflict resolution, critical thinking
and goal setting. Youth will develop a 10-point strategy to address issues that
they recognize in their home community. This one-day event will be January 17,
2011 in Columbia, SC at Heyward Career and Technology Center.
Bridging the Gap was originally organized in 1997, by a Columbia High School
student, as a one-day event to address social and environmental impacts that
led to negative attitudes of youth behaviors in their home community. The
project was later presented at Duquesne University at global meeting of the
Network of Communities for Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution (NCPCR). The
idea of a youth lead programming to address youth-centered issues was a huge
success and led to the establishment of the World Summit of Youth Peacemakers
in 2000, a bi-annual meeting of global youth change-makers.
Past participation for this event has come from a diverse population of youth
that have proven successful in developing solutions that lead to beneficial
youth-centered programming in their local communities. This limited capacity
event is also open to teachers and parents interested in learning resources
available in their local community.
The deadline for early registration is December 15, 2010.
Please see the attached flyer for more details.
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