Youth LEAD

Youth LEADership In Sharon (YLS)

We are a group of teens that work together to nurture identity, foster interfaith understanding, while reducing prejudice and misunderstanding. Adults say a lot of things — they tell us we have the power to change our communities, shape our nation, and transform our world. They convince us that they will stand behind us, and they do. In Sharon, MA, adults have joined forces with students over the course of ten years to do just that. Together, we have started a movement!

Our Youth LEADership Program brings together Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Jain, Unitarian, and secular high school students. All programs are planned and run by teens. Area high school teens can check out a meeting anytime. Unlike many other programs of its kind, the Youth Leadership Program is a place where teens really do take charge.  Providing teens with the opportunity to take charge of the program and guide it in their own unique way is the bedrock principle upon which everything else stands.  This principle guides our meeting and training methodology and is inextricably linked to everything we do.

To Join the Youth LEADership Sharon Program:

The Youth LEAD Sharon program is open to all high school students who live, worship or attend school in Sharon, MA.

• Contact Karin Firoza, Youth Programs Director.
• Starting  now, all returning and new participants complete the on-line registration for the 2011-2012 program year.
• Check it out by coming to a Sunday evening YLP meeting in Sharon, Massachusetts - held roughly twice a month on Sunday evenings from 7-8:30PM, September through May.
• Have your parents complete, sign and submit the consent form along with the program fee* to: Youth LEAD, 1 Merchant St., Suite 101, Sharon, MA 02067.

2011-2012 Annual Fee
$300 Annual fee includes:

• all YLP meetings (approximately 2 Sunday evenings per month);
• up to 30 hours of leadership training (in 6 modules, typically on Sunday afternoons);
• numerous opportunities to participate in and develop community service projects;
• facilitate special events;
• participate on or lead a Youth LEAD Conference team.

All participants should be prepared to pay at the time of on-line registration as  payment is due upon registering. *Note: No teen will be denied access to the YLP based on ability to pay. Contact Tabitha May-Tolub for fee waiver details. Family rates apply so that  the annual fee is reduced by $50 for each additional student participant (i.e., first teen is $300; second is $250; third is $200; maximum annual fee cap of $750 per family). Any participant may opt for the online installment payment program.  The first payment is $150; second payment will be for the remainder of the balance, due January 22, 2012. This is available as an online payment option only.

Additional transportation, conference, trip and special event fees are not included. 

Youth LEAD gratefully acknowledges the generosity of Youth LEAD’s Board of Advisors and Friends of Youth LEAD whose support accounts for the remaining 84% of the actual YLP costs.