Leadership Council of Students
OUR MISSION
The Leadership Council is dedicated towards providing leadership development to students in the community by supporting and creating targeted innovative programs to connect the youth, promote mental health, and encourage community service. As a driving force and branch of The Youth Center, the Leadership Council seeks to channel the voices of high school, middle school, and elementary school students to create and nurture a network of leaders in the community, helping them to grow with integrity, resilience, compassion, and inspiration as the leaders of tomorrow.
CONTACT US:
- LeadershipCouncil@
theyouthcenter.org - Instagram: @youthcenterleadershipcouncil
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Board of Directors
- Prep for Success Workshops:
– The Prep for Success Workshops provide an engaging, interactive, and meaningful experience to build a foundation for students to learn essential skills, habits, and resources for high school and beyond! Built through comprehensive surveys from middle schoolers, insights from current, successful high schoolers, and trough research, these workshops cover the essentials of time management, effective study techniques, active recall strategies, the basis of creating a substantive study guide, demystify high school, and provide resources and opportunities for students to apply newfound skills! Join us in prepping for success by learning and growing for the future!
- Making Mindfulness Matter Workshops:
– The Making Mindfulness Workshops are series of workshops, scheduled to take place in the summer, that will focus on cultivating a culture of mindfulness throughout the community, empowering youth of all ages to develop and grow their self-awareness and confidence.
– We will be focusing on topics of integrating mindfulness throughout mindful exercise/yoga, painting by numbers, mindfulness bracelet making, sculpting, raising plants/community garden, and more!
- Teen Expo:
– Representing the Youth Center at a community-wide event for 6th to 9th grade kids, our board planned, organized, and facilitated a series of three workshops. These workshops covered essential skills, including practicing mindfulness through activities like painting and journaling, along with hands-on instructional sessions that taught kids the core steps of first aid.
- Creative Connections:
– Serving as a four-part subseries in collaboration with Kristen Chan, an experienced, dedicated Girl Scout striving to give back to her community through her Gold Award Project, the Creative Connections subseries introduces a more focused lens on mindfulness through comprehensive, original art therapy workshops.– Inspired by the diverse individuality capacities of art, Creative Connections aims to enhance students’ perspectives on mental health by providing them with unique and inspiring outlets and skills.
- Meeting Mindfulness Workshops:
– As a group of passionate middle and high school leaders, our aim with this workshop series was to revamp Making Mindfulness Matter 2023 to augment students’ mental health consciousness, cultivate a culture of mindfulness throughout the community, and empower youth of all ages to develop and grow their self-awareness and confidence. Through various mindfulness activities from yoga and breathing to mindful listening, we have crafted an innovative and updated 12-part series aiming to impact students from first to sixth grade.
- Seeds of Service:
– The Seeds of Service program is a collaboration between the Leadership Council and Weaver Elementary’s leadership program, The Ambassadors. This youth-led initiative offers a series of workshops designed to teach students valuable lessons in communication, emotional intelligence, the importance of volunteering, and exposure to different leadership styles and conflict-resolution techniques. - – Additionally, the council is working to connect the Ambassadors with local nonprofit organizations, providing them with opportunities to participate in volunteer events and make a meaningful impact within their community.
- International Awareness Campaign:
– In collaboration with the Sunshine Youth, a youth organization based in India, the Leadership Council created a seven-part series of social media posts to spread awareness of various lessons. This series highlights the importance of youth advocacy through leadership, fostering growth mindsets, effective communication, and more!
