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The Youth/Young Adult program is designed to provide leadership training and life skills training through a variety of opportunities for youth between the ages of 14 and 35. Individual life skills will be developed through the Achievement Award Program which offers opportunities for exploration in Public Speaking, Sign-A-Song, critical thinking, mentoring, and career exploration.
The Rhode Island State Grange Youth Committee is currently lead by myself, Tracie Miller and and Roxanne Nelson as co Youth Directors ; Gary Manchester and Haven Nelson are on the committee as well.
The youth department is here to make sure that we keep addition, we inThe Youth department will work with the Junior department in creating opportunities for older Junior Grange members to begin their transition into the Subordinate Grange by combining camps and encouraging youth to be mentors to those older juniors.
The Youth/Young Adults are invited to participate in several camps throughout the year as well as the youth activities at the Annual State Convention in October. Youth are also encouraged to attend the National Grange Convention in November by participating in the National Programs.
The Youth/Young Adult department is an excellent way for the youth to become active in the Subordinate Grange as well as the State and National Levels.
We've done the Cribbage Tournament and the High lo Jack, We just had all our Youth Nights from all the Granges in RI, and we went to the Regional Session which was the North Eastern youth Conference in Maine. At the National level the youth are involved in opening a session of the national session with the Youth Officer Team but i dont know if we will have any from RI this yr. We also have a Youth ambassador program but i also dont know if we have any going this yr for that either. And theres an evening of excellence that the Youth put on which show case the talent show, lip sinc, sign a song, and public speaking winners from all the regions.
Events that we have coming up for the Youth are the State Sessions and the National Sessions.
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