Youth Leadership Corps Inc.

The Program:

We will pair groups of 21 personnel together in a Youth Groups, each group will consist of 1 youth group leader 4 Squad Leaders ( mostly college students or seniors in high school) and 16 youth leaders  ages 7-17 yrs old.

Each youth group leader will have the overall responsibility to supervise the total group of 20 other personnel, each week , at least all squad leaders will make contact (in person or phone) with their squad members, after each contact a record will be kept for at least 1 year on computer or cdrom of that contact, if any problems are encountered during that interview, squad leader will make a report and forward that report to his/ her youth group leader, ( if squad leader cannot ascertain a  remedy for the issue at hand), our areas of concern will be threefold , the yl's behavior  at: Home, School and what the yl does in the community, each yl in ylc will be mandated to perform @ least 10 hrs a year community service , also each member of ylc, leadership and youth leaders will be given a modest stipend for keeping the high standards of ylc. we have a rank structure similar to  the us military in order to further the idea of responsibility , promotion and privilege along with a sense of duty to ones self, and community . A vast majority of our yl will not be able to secure employment,  but do have needs and want some since  of accomplishment.  The stipend  helps  in this area. All who receive stipends must give something back to the community. Our yl will volunteer to assist the elderly, in low income areas and assist in neighborhood cleanups, also our yl's will learn through class work (weekend seminars ect;) about money, respect, civil etiquette  and a plethora of subjects to enhance their live as future leaders and citizens. The most important element of our program is our squad leaders, who will act as tutors if our yl's have problems in school, for single parent homes we will be able to assist in many ways , by just being there to assist in school work ( since many of our squad leaders will be in college or seniors in high school) therefore eliminating the need for low income families to bear the cost of expensive summer and after school tutoring programs, and buy using and asset that for the most part never had been used in this manner before, our state funded colleges and universities ( especially hbcu's  who are in our communities , most of the time right next door to the areas that need the most help. Each month we will select a yl who has preformed the best in school, home and community and they will be recognized in many ways, to include monies, baseball tickets ect;