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Character and Leadership
Development
The Character and Leadership Development Core Program
Area empowers youth to support and influence their Club and
community, sustain meaningful relationships with other, develop a
positive self-image, participate in the democratic process and
respect their own and others’ cultural identities.
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Junior
Staff
Junior Staff helps teens aged 13 to 17 develop the personal
skills related to employment: training in leadership, responsibilities
in work situations, how to conduct oneself at work and the importance of
a proper work ethic. While teaching these critical skills, the
program also gives members the chance to gain actual work, volunteer and
community-service experience. |
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Torch
Club
This small-group leadership development program, sponsored by
Staples, is targeted to youngsters ages 11 to 13. Within some 700 Torch
Clubs across the country, members elect officers and plan and implement
their own activities and community service projects. Each Torch Club
receives an official charter from Boys & Girls Clubs of America. |
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TEENSupreme® Keystone Clubs
Keystone Clubs are chartered small group leadership development
clubs for young people ages 14-18. Keystoners elect officers, choose
their own activities and plan and implement community service projects.
A national charter entitles a Keystone Club to participate in regional
and national Keystone conferences. The TEENSupreme Keystone Club program
is sponsored by the Taco Bell Foundation.
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National
Youth of the Year
Sponsored by The Reader's Digest Foundation, the
National Youth of the
Year Program is designed to promote and recognize service to Club
and community, academic performance and contributions to family and
spiritual life. Clubs select a Youth of the Year who receives a
certificate and medallion then enters state competition. State winners
receive a plaque and enter the regional competition. Regional winners
receive a $5,000 scholarship and enter a national competition held in
Washington, DC. The National Youth of the Year receives an additional
$10,000 scholarship and is installed by the President of the United
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2009 Youth of the Year
Franklyn Hernandez
Bartlett Jr./Sr. High School - Class of 2009
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