Save Our Youth Family Leadership Academy (SOYFLA) is working with the Merced County Boys and Girls Club to help improve learning and support services for children, youths and young adults with the problems of: teasing, bullying, peer pressure, gang assimilation and drug use as systemic factors students will face every day in their social places; home, school, and neighborhoods. Those that make it through these negative experiences often suffer from low self-confidence, damaged self-esteem and poor self-identity. SOYFLA in partnership with the Progressive Investing Institute of Focused Learning deliver therapeutic practices designed to improve these effects by providing free events, activities and classes designed to prevent and reduce the negative consequences of teasing, bullying, peer pressure, gang assimilation and drug use on student performances, health and overall well-being. SOY’s upcoming Performing Arts events provide children, youths and young adults pathways to express and release the emotions connected to the traumatic experiences of living through poor life experiences at home, in school and around their neighborhoods. Parents with children ages 6-11 come and participate in the Save Our Youth Merced Talent Showcase scheduled for May 28, 2016. Join us this Saturday, March 12, 2016 from 10am-12pm at 1903 G Street to audition. Performances must be centered on the themes of teasing, bullying, peer pressure, gang assimilation and drug use. Bring your imaginations to the forefront focused on solving the problems! Call today to register and for more info (209) 489-7516.
We are starting Phase II of this year's project. Teens ages 12 to 14 can sign up for the focused issue drawing contest. We have provided a downloadable file below which is a form that is required to be filled out in order to sign up for this contest. The form and the drawing are both due by the 5th of February. To read about the specifics of this contest, please look at the flyer below.
As someone who has been going to the meetings for the past 8 months, I can vouch for Save Our Youth (SOY) and say that this organization is truly trying to help the community. Back in October, during my first few meetings, I was genuinely amazed and shocked by how educated and professional their progressive investors were. For example, the progressive investors were given 2 minutes to write on the whiteboards how bullying, school failure, delinquency, lack of employable skill sets, or poverty has affected their life. I was extremely impressed with their responses because they were able to thoroughly explain how the topic of their choice impacted their life and how they overcame the problem in a very short amount of time. In short , these open-minded individuals come to these meetings every week, ready to learn more ways to help themselves, their families, and their communities.
-- Carrie |
Author's NoteThis blog will give you updates on the classes and events at Save Our Youth. |