NCJC’s Youth Engaged in Leadership and Learning (YELL) program aims to provide youth in fourth through eighth grades opportunities to engage in their communities, connect with peers, and be mentored by supportive adults.
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YELL is a high quality out-of-school program that provides opportunities for our youth to experience and develop competencies in leadership, wellness, and engagement with the larger community outside of their isolated neighborhood.
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YELL gives youth the opportunity to engage in local activities, learn how to identify challenges, and be empowered to advocate for themselves in a positive pro-social way in and out of school. While this curriculum is aimed at promoting and supporting youth as leaders, it does not hold a single definition of leadership. Instead, this curriculum encourages youth and adults to look at leadership in context and to find value in different attitudes and definitions of leadership.
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“Many of our best young people today wonder whether they have any place in this vast and complicated society of ours. They feel anonymous and rootless and alienated. They are oppressed by the impersonality of our institutions. In my judgment there isn’t any quicker cure for that ailment than evidence that their society needs them.” -John W. Gardner
Youth Engaged in Leadership and Learning (YELL) was developed at the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University. |
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