Participants also receive computer and job skills training.
At-risk youth help other children through internships and volunteer opportunities. Further, these programs offer excellent opportunities for youth leadership development, including the chance to participate in the annual Youth Summit, when teenagers from around the country spend several days in leadership training and workshops on topics such as youth mentoring, media relations, and legislative activism. After a press conference to announce the report's findings, the young people made their way around Capitol Hill to meet with members of Congress to report on the Web of Support's success and to urge legislators to support their call for funding flexibility. It's time for after-school programs to be created in other areas where children live in deep poverty and have been nearly forgotten. The young people also delivered to their legislators a new After-School Guide Book just published this week by Save the Children.