Youth Leadership and Action is a youth empowerment and substance abuse prevention initiative that trains, supports and encourages Youth Action Teams to become active change agents in their communities. Youth Action Teams are formal groups of youth with at least one adult advisor that plan and implement peer-focused prevention and community service projects that positively impact their peers and/or their communities. Youth Action Teams can be established in or affiliated with schools, community organizations, faith communities, businesses, agencies, civic groups, neighborhoods or anywhere that youth naturally congregate or are invited to participate.
GUIDE, Inc. currently supports the following Youth Action Teams through on-going training events, staff support and technical assistance, service opportunities and ideas, and financial support for general operations. In addition, the Youth Leadership and Action program provides training, service, and funding opportunities to external youth groups across the metro-Atlanta area. There are over ten (10) Youth Action Teams in Gwinnett County who were previously funded and supported by our program and are now active independent of our support.
Our current Youth Action Teams (YATs) are:
YEAR ONE: ALUMNI:
A Step Above Program (ASAP) Creekland Middle Builders Club
Berkmar Middle School McConnell Middle STARS Club
Camp Horizon LDP Meadowcreek High School Touch a Life, Inc. Norcross High School
Peachtree Ridge High School Phoenix High School Summerour Middle School
YEAR THREE: METRO: Diamond in the Rough Center for Pan Asian Gwinnett-Family Tull YMCA Community Services (Y2) I Am BEAUTIFUL Hemophilia of Georgia (Y1) NAACP Gwinnett Youth Council Youth Leadership for Parkview High School SAVE/SADD Global Health (Y1)
Pinckneyville HOOKED
Shiloh Middle School LIMITED Club South Gwinnett CIA Volunteer Grayson
Want To Know How To Become A Youth Action Team?
Youth Action Teams are accepted into the program on an ongoing basis, determined by openings in the current team structure. There are currently opportunities for up to 3 new Youth Action Teams to join for the 2007-2008 program year.
In order to be accepted into the program, Youth Action Teams must agree to enter into a 3-year contract and be screened previous to acceptance into the program. All contracts are renewed on a yearly basis so as to reflect any programmatic changes. A description of Youth Action Team requirements and services provided by GUIDE, Inc. can be found heprogram_yat_descriptions.pdfre .
For more information, or to speak with someone about becoming a Youth Action Team, please contact Mary-Kate Murray at
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YAT Resources
Please use the YAT Resources link above to access information and resources for our Youth Action Teams. Resources include information and documents on the Back to School Training, Monthly Reports, Prevention Project Resource Guide, and the YAT E-Newsletters. Please check back often for updated information and resources.
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