Empowering the Next Generation

Empowering the Next Generation: A How To Guide to Starting a Youth Leadership Program was written to assist individuals agencies organizations schools churches and cities in starting a youth leadership program. It is a comprehensive guide that is easy to read; it will help lead you in the right direction toward starting a successful program. It includes several helpful resources such as a sample youth leadership program curriculum contact information from every state on issues related to drug and alcohol prevention a complete State Municipal League Guide and 101 website resources for youth and community-related grants. As a bonus Mayor Carl Camon has included instructions for City Life Scenarios which he wrote and has used in his successful youth program in Ray City Georgia. The scenarios will give the youth an opportunity to experience what it is like to literally assume the role of various city officials for a day. Empowering the Next Generation also includes an enlightening and thought-provoking narrative entitled Empowering Our Youth on the state of education in America. Every community city state and national youth organization should make this book a part of their resource library.