Please join us via zoom or YouTube for our free series of lunchtime
Service Conversations:
Fostering youth engagement and collaboration
Featured Speakers:
Wednesday May 13th, 2020
Lester Strong, Executive Director, The Peaceful Guardians Project
https://youtu.be/jDXX_Jnhuq4
The Peaceful Guardians Project: Through the Peaceful Guardians Project, underserved youth share their life experiences while engaging with police officers as fellow humans-often for the first time. Police officers become learners and teachers who share their skills and life experiences with youth in the communities they protect. And Community-based mentors help young people chart pathways to more fulfilling futures.
Lester Strong
is the president of Courtney Strong, Inc. and founder of PATHWAYS; a series of workshops focused on developing a healthy relationship with love, fear and death. He is the former CEO of AARP Experience Corps, which serves 35,000 elementary students who struggle with reading in 23 cities across the United States. Lester has also been a student of Eastern philosophies and meditation for four decades. He is a graduate of Columbia University Business School’s Institute for Nonprofit Management.
Learn more:
www.peacefulguardiansproject.org
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Wednesday June 24th, 2020 at noon
Guy Felixbrodt, Director, J-Teen Leadership/ UJA Federation of NY
https://youtu.be/nxADLwP3fZE
Are you eager to help others but feel stuck? Are you at home but still want to find ways to improve our world?
Join youth expert and seasoned volunteer manager, Guy Felixbrodt, as we explore what can be done in this day and age. Get ideas, share ideas and find how you can act on them starting now. Information will be presented regarding current efforts, followed by a Q&A session and sharing all around. Targeted for all young people, and young at heart.
Guy Felixbrod is a native Israeli who moved to New York in 2000. He has been working with youth for almost 30 years, and oddly enough, still loves it very much. Guy is very passionate about community service and the many benefits it brings to all involved.
Learn more:
jteenleadership.org
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Wednesday July 15th, 2020
Ilene Cutler, Chris Nostrand and program participants
Generation to Generation Living History Project
Generation to Generation connects senior citizens and high school students for the purpose of forging meaningful connections and ultimately documenting the living history of Ulster County’s senior community. Ulster County’s youth volunteers work with Project staff to gain competency in interviewing, recording and interpersonal skills. Based on the successful program that took place in 2009 through UlsterCorps entitled Harvesting a Lifetime, seniors are paired with high school students, develop a comfortable relationship with them, get to know one another and ultimately collect the pertinent stories of the senior’s life.
As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic facing our community, this project was being conducted remotely. It is dependent on some technological tools in order to facilitate these meetings and the ultimate capturing of stories.
Learn more:
https://www.ulstercorps.org/g2g/
Watch excerpts on our YouTube channel
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