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Youth Development- Seminars for Teens
Some crucial questions to consider:
- Are our young people prepared to become tomorrow’s leaders?
- Are their scholastic results above or even up to pare with other nations?
- Do they value life-long learning?
- Do they demonstrate self-directed learning?
- Could we do a better job of preparing our youth to:
climb higher? reach farther? set higher goals? aim for the stars?What can you do?
Preparing young people for a healthy and successful future has taken on many new and complex dimensions and the trend is likely to continue. Success in today's competitive environment requires that young people start developing their personal leadership skills at an early age.
Alarming News-America’s students are losing out! The world is changing, jobs are evolving, and far too many students are simply not being prepared to be successful adults. According to www.EDin08.com,
- Seventy percent of eighth graders are not proficient in reading—and most will never catch up.
- Every year, more than 1.2 million students drop out of high school.
- Compared to students in 30 industrialized countries, American 15 year olds ranked 25th in math and 21st in science. Even America's top math students rank 25th out of 30 when compared with top students across the globe.
- Many of those who do graduate are not ready for college, for the workplace and for life.
We have to act now to improve education before more American students lose out on the best jobs, hurting our economy and impacting each and every one of us!
"For the first time in the history of this country, young people are less healthy and less prepared to take their places in society than their parents. Moreover this is happening at a time when our society is more complex, more challenging, and more competitive than ever before." ---(quoted from a recent American Medical Association report)
In addition, a recent research report, Workforce 2020: Work and Worker in the 21st Century, found that employers grouped leadership as one of the essential skills entry workers lacked. This group of skills included strong work ethic, problem solving and creativity, along with organizational and interpersonal skills. These skills were ranked ahead of writing, math and reading!
Youth Leadership is essential in developing character, confidence and values that promote the goal of healthy behavior.
Our America's Rising Stars Program is a unique inside-out self-development process. This research based approach focuses on critical elements that promote personal leadership, healthy behaviors and the skills employers identify as essential. These elements are developed, applied and reinforced through our process and a follow up process to strengthen and perpetuate success.
Potential Outcomes
Healthy Behavior (protected)
- Drug-free
- Non-violent
- Law abiding
- Social confidence
- Abstain from early sexual activity
Thriving (enhancement/personal optimism)
- School Success
- Affirmation of diversity
- Compassion for others
- Leadership
- Choosing a healthy lifestyle
Resiliency
- Capacity to rebound in the face of adversity
- Participant successfully applies skills from their assessment
- Seeks out options from diverse alternatives
- Able to make goal oriented informed decisions
Social Confidence
- Demonstrates leadership in various situations
- Provides vision and purpose
- Uses influence to obtained planned outcomes
Outcomes of pilot participants
- Graduates had a 40% grade point increase
- Graduates had a 56% reduction in school disciplinary incidents
- College attendance from one pilot site increase from 5% to 75%
Through a developmental and experiential process, Rising Stars provides a firm foundation to prepare all young people for life long learning, developmental and achievement.
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Rising Stars Process
A self-directed life development process, of life-long learning to prepare young people for a future of excellence and SUCCESS!Download Brochure
Teen
W.I.I.F.M.'s
(What's In It For Me)
Participating in a Rising Stars Workshop-
- Experience concepts first hand instead of hearing lectures about life skills.
-Come together as a group of youths in a safe, FUN and open environment.
-Opportunity to examine your personal habits, attitudes, beliefs and expectations for the future.
-Learn how to get beyond negative thinking, recognize your strengths, and apply new mind technologies to work easier!
Discover how YOU can be a teen who is...
Living,
Laughing,
Leading
and Loving Life!
This workshop is ALL ABOUT YOU!
Check out this YouTube Video showing the stark facts about the education crisis in our country.
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