Youth News from the Arlington Alliance for Youth

View Video from Global Youth Service Day (GYSD)

During GYSD, 39 youth groups (1050 people) where busy doing projects in their neighborhood. When they arrived at the closing ceremony in Vandergriff Park they were  interviewed by City Council Member Lana Wolff, AISD Superintendent Hector Montenegro, or Emcee Cheryel Carpenter. It was a great delight to see these interviews and learn about the great youth we have in Arlington.These internviews may be seen during comming week on the AISD TV Cable Channel 98 or by going to this link: http://www.aisd.net/video/Conversations/Conversations_117.html .

Please pass this link on to other members of your community that may know these youth. Help us celeberate our great youth and what they accomplished on GYSD

GLOBAL YOUTH SERVICE DAY 2008 - A GREAT SUCCESS

To see Global Youth Service Day pictures and the Arlington Alliance for Youth Awards ceremony copy and paste in your URL: http://www.photoshow.com/watch/pF9dR8Ds

Global Youth Service Day was a great success... thanks to the youth of Arlington, many great adults and city VIPs who participated.

Our 2008 GYSD celebration was about three times larger than 2007. And Global Youth Service Day 2009 will at least triple 2008.

THANKS to all who made this such a great day! 

SIGN UP FOR GYSD (GLOBAL YOUTH SERVICE DAY)

Only one week left to register your group for Global Youth Service Day.

Your GYSD project does NOT have to be done on April 26. 2008. Your project can be before or after April 26th. Just label your project as your GYSD project and register it. We would like you to come join the celebration on April 26, 2008.

We are also collecting volunteer hours for the 2007-2008 academic year. Please call Mike Leathers 817-472-8501 to report your groups volunteer hours. We hope to get nearly a million hours to show our community how much our youth do for them.

Lets all CELEBRATE our youth and the contribution they make to our community on April 26, 2008. Please call Mike Leathers at 817-472-8501 if you have any questions.

YOUTH COLLABORATIVE BREAKFAST A SUCCESS

February Workshops Prepare Youth Groups for GYSD

• February 11th, at Summit High School, Sheri Capehart hostess;
• February 20th, at Arlington High School, Lana Wolff;
• February 25th, at Bob Duncan Community Center, with Mel LeBlanc and Kathryn Wilemon, and
• February 26th, in the City Council Chambers at the Municipal Building with Robert Rivera host.

Youth Collaboration Breakfast Postponed until Feb 1st

It is with regret that the Arlington Alliance for Youth announces that it must postpone the 3rd Annual Youth Collaboration breakfast until Feb 1st.  The possibility of hazardous road conditions would possibly cause some honorees and participants to miss their opportunity to celebrate accomplishments. Additionally, we would like everyone to be present when we celebrate Arlington's selection as a Top 100 Best Communities for Young People.

Please inform your friends or associates who planned to attend this event of its postponement.  Also ask them to review their schedules and confirm all reservations for February 1st by sending an e-mail to alliance4youth@sbcglobal.net by Tuesday, Jan 29th. We hope you will be their to celebrate Arlington's accomplishments.

GLOBAL YOUTH SERVICE DAY STEERING COMMITTEE

FEBRUARY 2, 2008 is the next steering committee meeting at City Hall from 9 am to 11 am 3rd floor council briefing room.

Our first steering committee meetings were a great success. THANKS to all who attended, we have the beginning of our organization to ensure the success of Global Youth Service Day.

Remember this year we our counting all Arlington youth service hours, not only for GYSD, but also for the entire year. We want to really celebrate youth contribution to our community. Our intent to to get a lot of positive media attention for our youth.

Also, we want to begin our "Youth Organization of the Week" to highlight one youth group each week. Pick your week now. Send that information and any comments or questions to: call Jim Walther 817-975-1334.

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YOUTH SUMMIT A HUGE SUCCESS

The Arlington Alliance for Youth again facilitated the annual Youth Summit which was a hugh success. About 50 teens came to participate in the summit with art teachers from the ASISD high schools.

This year we were designing pictures of the five promises. Each youth group with an art teacher and recorder worked on one of the promises. Words and then sketches were created depicting each promise.

Now each AISD art teacher takes this back to their high school and will continue to refine the sketches into an art form. This will be a continuing process with their art students.

The final art for the five promises will be unveiled at the January Collaboration Breakfast. Then the five promise painting will be permanently on display at the Teen Underground Center at the main Arlington library.

Our thanks to all participants and art teachers.

"A Semester of Service"

"A Semester of Service" from Martin Luther King Day (MLKD) to Global Youth Service Day (GYSD). (January to April 2008)

Many of our youth groups already do a semester of service and more.

Global Youth Service day is trying to have youth service groups do this. The fact is many alraedy are doing this much service to our community.

What is needed is to label all the efforts of our youth groups as part of GYSD's semester of service. This is important for the youth service groups to gain credit for all the work they already do. In our efforts to celebrate the positive contribution of youth to our community and give them the credit they already deserve. So wyhen you see the media making news of a few bad apples, we can show the vast majority of great youth in our community.

This is the basic idea of Global Youth Service Day, namely to celebrate the contribution that youth already makes to our community.

Come celebrate with us. Call Mike Leathers at 817-472-8501 or Carolyn McHenry at 682-465-7104 to find out how. Global Youth Service Day is a major effort of the Arlington Alliance for Youth.

Our next project is a year of service. Our youth are already doing this. We just need to give them the credit they deserve and to celebrate. 

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