rippleffect

Youth Leadership Summit:

Boys to Men and Rippleffect are teaming-up to provide twenty one 9th-11th grade boys from Portland and Westbrook with a leadership training program that combines the very best of each program: outdoor adventure-based leadership with internally focused, gender-based values clarification and assertiveness training. It is a life enhancing experience that will connect the young men involved with leadership opportunities and roles throughout the Greater Portland community.

This year-long, three phase program begins with 5 days on Cow Island, July 23 through July 27, 2007, Phase One Activities:

Kayaking
Drumming
Journaling
Discussion groups
Camp fires
Group meals
Photography
Leadership training
Video journaling
Island and marine expeditions
Yoga
And more

Phase Two: Week of August 27, 2007: Three half-day Leadership Trainings

Activities:

Transferring the leadership skills you learned on Cow Island into your life at home, in your school and community.
What does leadership look like in Portland and Westbrook?
How do you become a leader in Maine and beyond?

Phase Three: Twenty-five afternoon leadership sessions throughout the year.

Activities:

Using the arts (video, music, photography) to explore and express what young male leadership looks like to you.
Visiting area businesses, governments and organizations that are active in community leadership today.
Group and individual exploration and discussion of leadership elements: what does it take emotionally to be a leader today? How do you stand up for what you believe? How does bigotry, sexism and racism impact leadership?

For more information on the program and how to apply, click here.

Maine's Boys To Men project is a stellar program for social change and the primary prevention of violence because it provides community support and specific skill development for building healthy individuals and healthy relationships.
Sally J. Laskey, National Sexual Violence Resource Center

| | | | | |

Boys to Men shall not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or citizenship status, disability, or gender