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SUBMERGE:
Spiritual Growth
and Disciplines
SA DISTINCTIVES:
Revolutionary Backwards
and Forwards
ATTITUDE OF
GRATITUDE:
Social Skills and
Public Graces
FINDING MY FEET:
Personal
and Leadership
Development
MY DREAMS,
MY REALITIES:
Peak
Mastery and Peak
Readiness |
The Youth Leadership Academy
will serve to identify potential
leadership among the teens in
each division, and will seek to
train them in the skills
necessary to become the local
officers and leaders of
tomorrow.
Curriculum and resources have
been chosen to provide the best
opportunity for learning and
developing the necessary
educational, cultural and social
skills to ensure success for the
teens chosen for the Academy.
The resources will include
specialized Bible studies,
Salvation Army history, and
electives such as mission and
purpose, understanding your
identity, developing convictions
and courage, how to present
yourself, critical thinking,
career options, self esteem,
peer pressure, Christian sexual
education, image, internet
usage, drugs/alcohol, etiquette,
financial planning, resume
writing, job interviews,
dressing appropriately,
Christian service, Officership,
relationships, colleges, racial
reconciliation, current events,
etc. These select young people
will be guided monthly by the
Corps Officer and the DYS or
selected divisional
representative.
The
largest component of the Academy
will be My Dreams, My
Realities. Working with
Pike’s Peak Learning Company,
the teens will focus on personal
development, finances, college
and career. It will provide the
threshold for how they see the
possibilities in their lives,
and will open the door to
leadership in other areas |
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"The function of education is to
teach one to think intensively and
to think critically
...Intelligence
plus character--that
is the true
goal
of education."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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