The Summer Leadership Program provides sixty diverse teenagers with an exciting, powerful and fun summer of leadership skills, action projects, internships at local nonprofits and challenging seminars to transform themselves into powerful voices for change.
High-school-age students from Boston's diverse neighborhoods, surrounding communities and outlying suburbs enroll and are accepted into the Summer Leadership Program. Youth who have participated have come from high schools including City on a Hill, Needham High, Boston Latin Academy, Beaver Country Day, South Boston High, English High, Newman Prep, Brighton High and many others.
Once accepted into the Summer Leadership Program, students participate in a two-night overnight retreat in order to explore common bonds and build a sense of community. Then they launch into six and a half weeks of intensive seminar learning, service work, and concrete community action projects. Seminars go deep into topics such as education, health, immigration, community organizing, housing, homelessness, and more. Students meet daily in a large assembly, break into small groups for their seminars, share lunch together, intern two days a week at local nonprofits, and develop meaningful Community Action Projects implemented throughout the city.
"I found myself invested in a larger community. This experience made me value not only where I came from, but also where I could go."-- Paulette Johnson, Summer Leadership Program, 1996; first assistant in the Grads Program, 1999
TO APPLY: Teens must complete the 2009 Program Application form, schedule an interview, and provide references and a 2-page essay. Once a student is accepted, parents must sign permission and health forms and will be asked to make a family pledge toward the program.
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