Youth Leadership Track Workbook (each team member will receive a copy at the Summit)

Once again we are encouraging youth to attend the Summit in teams!

The youth will be able to participate in the Youth Leadership Track to create a plan for a community project. Once back in their communities, the teams can implement their plans with the tools they received at the Prevention Summit.

Individual youth (not as part of a team) are still welcome to attend and will be joined with other youth for team activities. All youth must have a chaperone!

Youth Leadership Track

• The Youth Leadership Track is for youth in middle and high school. The Goal of the Youth Leadership Track is to teach youth in leadership roles to use the Strategic Prevention Framework* to plan, develop, implement and evaluate successful strategies for their communities.
  
  

• In these sessions, youth with their identified Team Adult Advisor, will receive information on substance abuse topics, hear examples of successful youth projects, and attend workshops to gain skills to use in their own projects.

• On Friday morning, the Youth Leadership Track will be split into two groups. One group will attend the training sessions, selected at registration, in the morning and then participate in a Service Learning Project in the afternoon. The other group will participate in a Service Learning Project in the morning then the training sessions in the afternoon.  The teams will flip flop schedules on Friday.

• On Saturday morning, both groups will join together to attend a Youth Keynote and two workshop sessions followed by lunch and the closing keynote, closing activity, and drawing for prizes.
  
  

Youth Leadership Training
Friday, October 15, 9:15 - 12:00 p.m.

(Gray Group)
Friday, October 15, 2:30 - 5:00 p.m.

(Blue Group)

CC – Room F

Beginning Leadership Session: Basics of Prevention for the Young
Leader (Strategic Prevention Framework - SPF)
Marc Fomby, CPS — Prevention Services

Utilizing years of working with youth and experience in program development and implementation, Marc brings to life and adds flavor to the concept of prevention and all its elements in this condensed component of instruction. This training is ideal for beginners in the field of prevention and for empowering youth leaders to become active agents for change in their communities. This workshop introduces the Strategic Prevention Framework concept, which strives to promote resilience and ultimately decrease risk factors in individuals, families and communities. Participants are actively
engaged during this presentation of information. Read more about Marc Fomby by clicking on his picture!

CC – Room G

Intermediate (1-2 years) Leadership Session: SpeakOUT
Kelly Kasner — American Cancer Society, Inc/Great West Division
Amber Talburt, MPA, Community Initiatives Director; Justin Torres; Tiffany Go

This interactive presentation provides intermediate-level youth with skills so that they
can move beyond organizing prevention projects that raise awareness to becoming
advocates that tackle policy change activities. Participants will be provided a policy
overview, be taught basic steps needed for policy change, be instructed on how to
formulate a call to action, and learn about policy change projects they can pursue. The
workshop will include instruction and opportunities to practice the concepts.

CC – Room H

Advanced (3+ years) Leadership Session: Building From the Ground
Up: The Nuts and Bolts of Developing and Implementing Prevention
Projects

Mike Wilson — Safe Streets

For youth leaders who understand the science of prevention but have struggled to get
their projects across the finish line from concept to completion. This 2 hour fast track
training will challenge participants to dream it, plan it, and complete it while thinking through all of the important aspects of how to make it happen.

Youth Team Information

• Teams must consist of at least one Team Adult Advisor. The Team Adult Advisor will participate in the Youth Leadership Track with their youth team.   

• Teams can be as small as one Team Adult Advisor and one youth, or as many youth members as they want. Remember, for every three youth, there must be at least one adult. So if your team is very large, be sure there are enough chaperones to cover this rule. (If you are applying for a Youth Team Scholarship, remember that teams must consist of at least three youth.)

• All teams should designate a Youth Team Name. The designated team name should be placed on all registration forms in the TEAM NAME field. The team name will be used to link team members together and can be used for youth introductions, and activities.

Please Note: In order to participate in the Youth Leadership Track, both youth and the Team Adult Advisor must participate in all components of the youth track together and cannot attend any other workshops during the Prevention Summit.

Youth Outcomes

• This training enhances the relationship between the youth leaders and the Team Adult Advisor by focusing on a tangible plan development during team planning meetings. It will better equip youth and adults to develop a strategic project plan that clearly defines the activities that young people will carry out to address the problems and goals that their community is striving to achieve.

Team Checklist

• Designate a Team Adult Advisor.

• If your youth team doesn’t already have a youth team name, one should be designated and placed on all registration materials. Please use the same team name for all team members during registration.
• Download Scholarship Information/Application Form (optional) and send completed application to CASAT no later than September 17, 2010 by 5pm Pacific to be eligible to receive a scholarship.

For more information regarding the Youth Leadership Track, please contact Ivon Urquilla at ivon.urquilla@dshs.wa.gov