A Youth Leadership Track will be offered in collaboration with the Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health and will offer training for youth in the knowledge and skills needed to become effective leaders and advocates. The Youth Leadership Track will take place from Wednesday, July 16 through Sunday, July 20 and is designed for youth ages 13 to 22 who are registered attendees or faculty at the Training Institutes.

The overall purpose of the Youth Leadership Track is to support youth to engage in, participate in, and facilitate the youth movement in mental health. The Track will provide the opportunity for youth to:

• Increase their capacity to advocate for themselves and others
• Learn how to create change in their communities
• Exercise leadership in facilitating the youth movement, including networking and governance

Youth Leadership Track sessions will include:
- Utilizing Media and Technology to Encourage Resiliency and Recovery: UMATTERR
- Weaving Connections: Healing Communities from Historical Trauma
- What is REEL? Adolescents with Mental Illness in American Movies
- Youth Evaluation... I'm Convinced! Now What?
- Speak Up, Speak Out: Lessons in Youth Policy
- Setting a Policy Agenda for Youth, By Youth
- Leading in a Multicultural World
- Life After School: Planning for the Future
- The Power of Peer to Peer Helping
- Your Point Is? Training in Public Speaking
- Safe or Sorry: Domestic Violence in Teen Dating Relationships
- How to Start a Youth Group: Organizational Development
- Youth Advocacy and Self-Involvement in Treatment Planning
- Acting Out: Developing Emotional Self-Awareness and Empathetic Understanding for
  Others through the Use of Drama
- Photovoice: Voicing Our Individual and Collective Experiences through Photography for
  Research, Social Marketing, and Advocacy

In addition to Workshops on leadership and advocacy, the Youth Leadership Track will include Workshops focusing on wellness and strategies for positive overall health. All Workshops will be repeated at different times to ensure that participants have an opportunity to attend. In addition to participating in the Youth Leadership Track Workshops, youth may attend any of the Institute and Workshop sessions offered during the Training Institutes as electives. Youth attending a specified number of sessions will receive a Youth Leader Certificate of Achievement.

In order to participate in the Youth Leadership Track, youth must register for the Training Institutes, ensure payment of applicable fees, and indicate registration for the Youth Leadership Track along with age and date of birth on the Training Institutes registration form. The following two forms are required for participation in the Youth Track. These two forms, along with other materials about the Track, will be sent in advance of the Training Institutes to all youth registering for the Youth Leadership Track and should be completed and returned prior to the Institutes:

• Youth Leadership Track Release and Indemnity Agreement - The Release and Indemnity Agreement must be completed for each participant in the Youth Leadership Track. Among other provisions, the agreement designates a "responsible person" (such as a parent or guardian, a community member, or another adult Training Institutes participant) who will accompany each youth participant to the Training Institutes, accept responsibility for the youth participant, and remain accessible to respond to emergencies and other problems. The youth participant, parent or guardian, and responsible person each must read and sign this agreement indicating their agreement with the terms therein.
• Youth Leadership Track Expectations - The Expectations Form details expectations for the youth participant, the responsible person, and for Georgetown University and the Technical Assistance Partnership. The youth participant and responsible person must read and sign the Expectations Form.

A limited number of scholarships will be available to assist youth to participate in the Youth Leadership Track. Youth must follow the scholarship application instructions included in this brochure.

An orientation for all Youth Leadership Track participants will be held on Wednesday, July 16 from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM.

 

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