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Youth Leaders Meet other young leaders, network, refine your leadership skills, learn something new and have fun while doing it! Last year’s Youth Track, was wildly successful and this year’s will prove even better. We have planned more intensive workshops and plenary sessions featuring many inspiring and exciting presenters. |
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Our workshops
focus on the leadership tools youth need. There will be classes
for those who want to gain confidence and improve their leadership
skills, and classes for those who want to take their leadership
skills to the next level, including advocacy and time management
workshops. Youth Track Agenda |
| Wednesday, January 21 | |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Opening Plenary Session Begin your Forum experience with all the attendees at Forum XIV’s kick-off session featuring Former New York City Mayor, Rudy Giuliani |
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am | Youth Track Opening Speaker We’ll warm up with “getting acquainted” activities and a CADCA favorite and well known speaker, Ty Sells from Youth to Youth International will open and set the tone of Forum XIV’s Youth Track. |
| 10:45 am - 11:45 am | MADD’s New Multi-Media Presentation FACE Making the right choice is hard, but correcting the wrong decisions can often be harder. Leadership is a pursuit worth attaining. This dynamic celebrity-filled, multimedia show focused on the importance of making healthy choices, avoiding alcohol and other drug use, and facing mistakes and learning from them. |
| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch on Your Own |
| 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Youth Leadership Training - Teens Taking
Action This training by Nancy Morrison and teens from the Troy Community Coalition, is based on the “7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens” identified by Sean Covey of the Franklin Covey Institute. This training will explain what the “Habits” are and how to put them into play in your community through an environmental strategy to bring about environmental change. |
| 2:30 pm - 2:45 pm | Youth Track Break |
| 2:45 pm - 5:00 pm | Drama and Drug Prevention - The Drama
of Substance Abuse Karen Peterka and some of the Skagit Players Peer Educational Theatre troupe will present information on how to create an educational theatre in your community and how to use these to focus on making the right decisions. Through audience participation, this unique training will teach you theatre techniques you will use in creation of the creative project. |
| 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm | Dinner, Team Building and Creative Project Eat dinner with the friends you came with and the new ones you have made. Then join in the fun and exciting team building activities that are in the works. Enjoy the powerful experience of coming together as a group of young people with something to say. Pour your creative talents into the multi-medium creative project that will express “What We Try to Say that Adults Don’t Hear.” The project will be unveiled at Forum XIV’s Awards Luncheon on Friday. |
| Thursday, January 22 | |
| 9:00 am - 10:15 am | Critically Cool What is “cool?” And how do we determine what’s cool? Presented by the talents students and staff of Youth to Youth International, this presentation focuses on the marketing of products and services to teenagers and the messages that are associated. |
| 10:15 am - 11:30 am | Youth Advocacy Training Young people, more than many other sectors of society, have a voice that elected officials want to hear. You have the ability to make an impact and to positively change the world around you. CADCA’s Meena Vagnier will present on how youth can effectively advocate for programs and laws that positively impact them. |
| 12 noon - 1:00 pm | Lunch on Your Own |
| 12 noon - 4:00 pm | Capitol Hill Day Visits Take your newly honed advocacy skills and put them to good use! Use this opportunity to go with your coalition and meet your Congressional Delegation. Tell them why you choose to be drug-free and what you think could improve in your community. |
| 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm | Capitol Hill Day Reception Join hundreds of others voicing their support for community coalitions and substance abuse prevention and treatment, while meeting some of Washington’s political leaders. |
| 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Youth Dance You asked for it last year… and now you’ve got it! Have a blast hanging out and dancing with your new friends. |
| Friday, January 23 | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | Leadership Motivation - Positive Peer-Suasion:
The Power of Standing Up and Speaking Out Few people are more important or influential than your friends. Julie Laipply of the Role Models and Mentors Foundation will teach you how to positively impact and influence your peers to make healthy choices. You will also tools to become a successful peer role model, speaker and youth leader. |
| 9:15 am - 10:15 am | Maintaining Balance as a Youth Leader Wendy Krom from Community Consulting Services will explain Balanced Leadership Theory and how you can regain your equilibrium when you feel unbalanced. You will also learn your own leadership strengths and how to maintain balance and manage time. |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Youth Track Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:15 am | Rehearsal of Creative Project Presentation We’ll rehearse our presentation of “What We Try to Say that Adults Don’t Hear” for the group before presenting it to all of Forum XIV. |
| 11:15 am - 12:15 pm | Youth Track Closing Speaker Tom Riether of Youth to Youth International will wrap-up your Youth Track experience, reminding you of what you’ve learned and inspiring you to go forth and use your many skills. |
| 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Awards Luncheon at the new DC Convention Center Rejoin all of the other Forum XIV attendees to hear from leaders in the field and for the presentation of the Youth Track’s Creative Project. |
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