[Dialogue] ICA -Teen Summer Program

[Karen Sims]

ICA-USA Teen Summer Program
A Force for Positive Social Change

Beginning in June, Institute of Cultural Affairs-USA implemented an intensive facilitative training and job experience program for 107 community youth, ages 14-24 years.  The Summer Teen Facilitators Pilot Program was a ground breaking experience in many ways.  It challenged the youth to discover new ways of thinking through ICA facilitation training and new ways of acting and working through ecology-friendly and "green" projects. There were 15 different origins represented and 8 different languages spoken by the youth. The overall goal of the program was to empower the young leaders of tomorrow to have a voice in society today.

I have posted on the ICA-USA website's (www.ica-usa.org<http://www.ica-usa.org/>) Home Page a short video that highlights the program and the youth. Please, check it out.  I hope you enjoy the smiling faces and the "force for positive social change" that they represent.


Be well,
Karen

Karen A. Sims
Director of Resource Development and External Affairs
Institute of Cultural Affairs-USA
Phone: 773-769-6363
Fax: 773-769-1144

We recently updated our website.  See our new look at www.ica-usa.org<http://www.ica-usa.org>

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