{"id":25620,"date":"2024-09-23T10:07:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T16:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/high-school-youth-leadership-council-helps-develop-future-leaders-in-montezuma-county\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:21:47","slug":"high-school-youth-leadership-council-helps-develop-future-leaders-in-montezuma-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/high-school-youth-leadership-council-helps-develop-future-leaders-in-montezuma-county\/","title":{"rendered":"High School Youth Leadership Council helps develop future leaders in Montezuma County"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every Thursday evening, the High School Youth Leadership Council meets to help develop future leaders in Montezuma County.<\/p>\n

The program takes place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Cortez Cultural Center and helps teach students leadership skills while providing dinner and activities such as field trip and community projects.<\/p>\n

The nonprofit has run for about 15 years, according to Angela Adams, a project organizer.<\/p>\n

\u201cSCYC Leadership Council has been happening for about 15 years, and it\u2019s morphed,\u201d Adams told The<\/em> Journal<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s always been a youth-driven program where young people can tell us what they\u2019re interested in learning and how they would like to serve the community, and we try to make that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the past three years, the program has utilized a curriculum called \u201cYouth Roots Philanthropic Project.\u201d Students are encouraged to identify issues that affect young people in Montezuma County, and then they began implementing strategies and activities to help combat the issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen we raise money around that and community awareness, and then make a grant,\u201d Adams said. \u201cLocal nonprofits could apply for the grant, and the Youth Leadership Council would decide who was awarded the funds. It was an awesome endeavor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, the program is doing things a little differently.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a mix of what we used to do and what we\u2019ve done for the last few years,\u201d Adams said. \u201cIt used to be like, \u2018What do y\u2019all want to know about?\u2019 And then they would tell us and we would make a meeting around it. It could be anything from adulting stuff to budgeting to mindfulness or whatever they\u2019re interested in.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year, the program will mix topics that students want to learn about, and identify a major youth issue in the county.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen we\u2019re going to make either a community service project or an awareness campaign or an event around said topic, and that\u2019ll be an ongoing group project,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n

In recent years, Adams said they\u2019ve had about 17 members, and eight to 12 attend each meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a leadership development program, and we\u2019re hoping that they learn more about themselves and others, grow in self-confidence and their leadership abilities, and then get involved in this community to make a positive change,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n

To join, contact Adams or show up at the designated meeting time and place. Adams said the meeting room is upstairs and around the back of the Cortez Cultural Center, which has donated the space.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou come as often as you can, and if you have theater or sports or whatever, you don\u2019t have to come then,\u201d Adams said. \u201cThey learn about themselves and the other people and team building and how to make a decisions as a group and that kind of thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

More information is available online<\/a> at www.scyclistens.com or by contacting Adams at (970) 480-7293 or aadams@scyclistens.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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