This project brings young people from a three county area together with adult community members for formal training, mentorships, and decision-making opportunities. In the future, this project will sponsor an annual leadership seminar with workshops that will teach future leaders the skills in problem solving, conflict management, and related topics. The leadership project will seek to place youth on school and community boards and committees. This will offer them a chance to learn the dynamics of collaborative decision-making and give youth a voice in community decisions that affect them. This project will create a pool of trained students to sit on local decision making boards.
Adults can mentor youth on their boards and recruit youth from the pool for their boards.
This youth project will introduce new and strengthen existing relationships between youth and the adult community by providing informal social and business relationships. A spring dance in Hancock will help build relationships between schools and area communities. The dance will foster a more unified and less competitive atmosphere with area communities. Monthly listening lunches have begun and give youth a chance to express their ideas and feelings to public officials. The cooperative education project will help the community develop and adopt a vision to provide development assets to every child and young adult in Stevens County.