Program Overview

    The Care Fresno Teen Leadership Program is purposed to increase young, indigenous leaders within high-crime neighborhoods. This program is targeted at helping at-risk teens avoid the high drop out rates associated with these under-resourced communities. In addition, we hope to train these teens in character-building exercises, life-skills development and leadership principles, helping to create indigenous leaders who will influence younger generations through mentoring, tutoring and service projects. Our hope is for this program to be cyclical. The teens are mentored to become leaders to younger generations who will one day join our teen program and do the same!

• Class includes:
  

o   Leadership training

o Team Building Activities >>>

o   Life skills development

o   College Prep

o   Mentorships

o   Trips: some fun, some educational (ie trips to college campuses)

o   Leadership Planning Team

o   One Friday per month open mic night (arts and poetry)

• Participants

o   Teens from high-crime neighborhoods/Care Fresno sites

• Develop a healthy self-concept, healthy relationships, and a sense of personal responsibility

• Understand Emotional Intelligence and the skills it measures, including self-awareness, self-control, self-motivation, and social skills

• Build skills in public speaking and communication as well as an understanding of personal image

• Develop an understanding of principle-based decision-making and learn to make responsible personal and financial decisions

• Recognize and resist peer pressure

• Learn to become better family members and citizens

• Appreciate the need for vision in goal-setting, personally and professionally

• Become indigenous leaders in their communities