For this year’s Youth Service Institute, YSA worked with our local hosts (YouthVille Detroit, the LEAGUE Michigan, and the Michigan Service Commission) to coordinate service projects around the city
way to both complement the training while also contributing our time and energy to Detroit.I am thrilled to have the opportunity to join YouthVille for their service project. I had the opportunity to have dinner with teens from YouthVille at last year’s Institute and was thoroughly impressed with their enthusiasm and sense of humor. The leadership they exhibited and their determination to make their community better made the dinner a breath of fresh air after sitting in hotel conference rooms all day.
What excites me even more is that I’ll have the opportunity to visit their multi-media studio to create a public service announcement on the benefits of service-learning. October is National Arts and Humanities Month and what better way to celebrate than to demonstrate how creative processes (script writing, music editing, and performance) can inform and enhance communities?
I can’t wait to tour their facilities and experience all that YouthVille does to highlight young people as assets in their community and I look forward to witnessing the young participants training us adults in how to better encourage and facilitate youth leadership.
Photo courtesy of YouthVille Detroit
