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Wednesday, June 26, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
The Nugget Newspaper Crossword
By Jacqueline E. Mathews, Tribune News Service
PHOTO PROVIDED
Jessi Glanz, second from right, traveled to Washington, DC. for leadership
development.
Sisters student hones
leadership skills
— Last Week’s Puzzle Solved —
A Sisters Heart of Oregon than themselves. It gives
YouthBuild student was them the confidence that they
selected to join more than have the skillsets, mindsets
80 other young leaders in and partners to return home
Washington, D.C., to fur- and make a significant impact
ther develop their leadership on their communities.=
skills and network with cur-
A new addition to the
rent and former students from conference this year was the
YouthBuild programs across Service Impact Fair, where
the country. Jessi Glanz from students highlighted their ser-
Sisters participated in the vice to community through
31st annual YouthBuild USA pictures, videos and stories
AmeriCorps Conference of during a science-fair-style
Young Leaders (CoYL) in the event. The presentations told
beginning of June.
the story of the service they
The YouthBuild USA provided, the impact they9ve
AmeriCorps Conference had on their community and
of Young Leaders brings what they learned during their
together young people from time at YouthBuild.
across the country to fully
<The best part of going to
experience
CoYL was meet-
the breadth
ing amazing
and impact of
youth builders
YouthBuild9s
from around the
global move-
United States,=
ment rooted I now have more courage s a i d G l a n z .
in leadership,
was
to follow my dreams <Everyone
service, edu-
so welcom-
cation and
ing and car-
and do what makes
workforce
ing. I now have
training. The
me happy.
more courage
young peo-
to follow my
ple shared
dreams and do
their experi-
what makes me
ences with
happy. CoYL
each other and participated really made me feel like I
in workshops on understand- found a place where I belong.
ing substance abuse and its I learned so much in four
impact on long-term success, days, and I9ll never forget it.=
building healthy relation-
Heart of Oregon
ships, developing financial YouthBuild is one of 252 local
capability skills, identifying programs across the U.S. that
leadership styles and personal help unemployed and out-of-
branding. Delegates like school young people ages 16
Glanz are chosen to attend to 24 attain their High School
by their fellow students and Equivalency (HSE) or high
local YouthBuild program school diploma. During that
staff.
time, they also learn career
<YouthBuild students are skills by building affordable
full of promise and4when housing and other community
given the opportunity cou- assets in their neighborhoods
pled with support from car- while engaging in commu-
ing adults4they can go on nity service and leadership
to do great things,= said John training. Graduates leave
Valverde, CEO of YouthBuild prepared for success in post-
USA, who addressed the stu- secondary education, careers
dents at the conference. <Our and registered apprentice-
Conference of Young Leaders ships4and as a part of a
shows young people that they strong and supportive global
are part of something larger community.
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