Help Youth Become Community Leaders - Shared Stories Youth Program
The Chinese Progressive Association is recruiting volunteers to join the Shared Stories Program team of facilitators. Shared Stories educates and empowers youth to become community advocates and leaders. It focuses on issues important to the immigrant community, especially Chinatown, and the broader implications of how these issues affect all communities.
In this fun and rewarding experience, volunteers gain in-depth experience working with youth and integrating it into the overall organization and local community.
What do facilitators do?
- Serve as positive role models
- Work in a team to plan and conduct program sessions, team-building and project-based activities that engage youth in social activism
- Attend relevant community events with students
- Represent and promote program and organization at public networking opportunities
Qualifications:
- Strong interest in social justice, Asian American community issues, and youth empowerment
- Good communication and leadership skills and willingness to further develop these skills
- Previous experience in leading youth groups (ages 15-21) and workshop planning
- Can attend program sessions (Sundays from 10:30am to 1:30pm) and planning meetings (time to be decided)
- Preference given to volunteers who can commit for two semesters
