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Developing Leaders, Embracing Diversity

Submitted by Anytown Arizona on Tue, 2008-02-05 23:33.


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Anytown Arizona Anytown Arizona programs guide participants through facilitated dialogue and interactive workshops designed to provoke thought and inspire change. Through this experience, participants not only address their interactions with others, but also investigate their own identity and discuss issues that can be difficult to approach in everyday life. By raising the level of consciousness about the sense of otherness and distrust, Anytown Arizona programs help prevent the negative spiral of alienation, prejudice and hatred. Through our various youth development and leadership programs, we have served over 30,000 Arizona youth since 1957. Through our annual events, we have raised the awareness of over 10,000 adults, and through our diversity training and similar programs, we have served over 100 organizations in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Anytown Arizona strives to meet this need by providing a structure and venue in which participants can recognize, investigate, and tackle the social issues they face daily. Our programs offer a safe space and a series of workshops based in experiential learning with the objective of supporting leaders who create change in their schools, organizations, and communities.

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People Involved:10,000+People Impacted:30,000+
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Related Cause: Human Rights

Category: Global Impact

Tags: leadership life-skills diversity fun youth leadership summer camp training anytown arizona long lasting friends

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Keylatch Summer Program

Submitted by littlestarortiz on Sun, 2007-12-30 10:02.

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The Keylatch Summer provides underserved children from Boston's South End with a high-quality, enriching summer camp experience. Community leaders, families, and Keylatch staff engage campers in activities that allow them to explore new opportunities, deepen cultural and community pride, and foster a love of learning.
Racial tensions and inter-neighborhood violence abound, and most of the youth violence that occurs in Boston takes place in and around the South End. The community is facing many problems due to gentrification and the loss of public housing space, as low-income housing is encroached upon by market-rate buyers and more and more of the neighborhood is built up by developers of high-end real estate. Insufficient schools and bilingual education are a major problem for the largely Latino (primarily Puerto Rican) residents, and Spanish is the first language of many of the children in the camp. Keylatch aims to offer a safe, enriching summer experience-both academically and socially- for children in the South End at a low cost to families.
The camp day, which typically runs from 8:30 am - 4:30 pm, is divided into two main parts - mornings are spent engaged in classroom learning while afternoons are spent on educational and fun field trips in and around Boston.The camp engages in an annual camping trip and a final trip, both of which are usually outside of the Boston area. Keylatch also holds a final show in order to showcase the achievements of the children throughout the summer.
The student:staff ratio is typically 5:1. Camp staff includes two or more directors, college-age senior counselors, and high school-age junior counselors who come from the South End and surrounding communities; often, Junior counselors are former campers who grew up in the camp, then go on to become Senior Counselors and sometimes also directors. In creating and sharing in this experience, college and high school - age staff members gain tangible leadership skills, a deeper understanding of themselves, and a compelling awareness of social service, as well as providing children in the South End with an amazing summer!

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Started On:Summer 1984Ended On:Through present
People Involved:People Impacted:10 Junior Counselors, 80 campers and their families
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Related Cause: Education

Category: Education & Environment

Tags: education safety Fun Activities summer camp enrichment field trips

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