Equipping Youth Board of Directors
2012-2013
Cal Vaughn, President
Linda Agrimson, Treasurer
Cathy Risse, Secretary
Jodi Birmingham
Carol Brandt
Tom Robinson
Pat Semelroth
Mission Statement
To equip youth with the skills to make the healthiest choices.
Equipping Youth programs afford youth the opportunity to develop skills that enable them to make the healthiest choices when faced with pressures to conform to risky behaviors prevalent among teens today.
Goals of Equipping Youth
To make all inclusive risk avoidance prevention education more accessible for youth To teach youth the benefits they gain by avoiding negative consequence risk behaviors To assist youth in making a commitment to save sexual relationships for their marriage
Activities of Equipping Youth
- Positive Youth Development programs with a mentoring emphasis for at risk youth
- Character and assets building education programs for children and adolescents
- Coalition building activities to facilitate community members to work together toward common goals for youth
- Prevention education programs (tobacco, alcohol and drug use)
- Risk avoidance programs primarily teaching our ‘Powerful Choices’ curriculum
- Workshops and professional development conferences for community leaders, educators and parents
- Youth programming through collaboratrive efforts with other community agencies and organizations whose efforts and goals for our youth are similar to Equipping Youth’s
- Web site for sharing the hopeful message of risk avoidance behaviors with youth; special sections to inform parents, teachers, and youth leaders as well as youth of their best choices
~September 2012