Friday Night Live is designed for high school-aged youth. Activities
are organized by youth to appeal to youth. Dances, haunted houses,
community service and social action activities, movie nights, and
participation in advocacy for safe and healthy environments such
as sober grad, are just some of the activities that FNL youth both
participate in and organize. One of the most distinguishing aspects
of Friday Night Live is youth involvement in mentoring. In FNL,
high school-aged youth can act as mentors and tutors to middle school
and elementary school students. FNL
mentoring activities provide opportunities for young people
to engage in ongoing, mutually beneficial, caring relationships
which strengthen young people to face today's challenges.
Club Live is designed for middle school-aged
youth. This program focuses on developing and expanding social skills.
Activities are organized to engage youth socially, to expand their
ability to express themselves in social environments, and to help
youth help themselves actively engage with peers. Club Live activities
may include Christmas decorating contests, raffles, bingo nights,
etc.
Friday Night Live Kids is designed for kids in
grades 4-6. The most distinguishing aspect of the FNL Kids program
is its parent component. For fourth through sixth graders, parents
are an essential element to learning leadership and positive decision
making skills. FNL Kids provides a structure in which collaboration
between parent and kid is fostered and connections are made. Parents
play a key role in teaching basic leadership skills by participating
with their kids in activities like movie night, dress-up day, and
bring your parent to school day.
FNL Mentoring provides
opportunities for young people to be in ongoing, mutually beneficial,
caring relationships, which strengthen a young person’s resiliency
to challenges in life. The FNL model engages teams of older high
school-aged youth to mentor teams of middle school-aged youth in
a structured ongoing one-on-one relationship. As the newest addition
to the FNL family of programs, counties that participate adhere
to certain quality assurance standards while maintaining local creativity,
energy and self-determination.
FNL Mentoring Programs
- Introduce
young people to the concept of volunteerism
- Encourage young people to develop programs that
are fun and meaningful
- Promote messages through shared experiences
- Encourage peer-oriented programming (youth driven
and youth led)
- Develops skills, such as communication, team work,
and active listening
- Encourage and empower young people as active leaders
and community resources
- Have broad appeal to diverse ethnic, racial and
social groups
- Encourage youth to engage in mutually beneficial
relationships with peers and younger youth
Teenwork is teens working with teens, teens helping teens, and
teens teaching teens. TEENWORK
is adults working, helping and teaching teens, and adults working,
helping and teaching adults. TEENWORK is state governmental agencies,
local governmental agencies, private non-profit agencies, and
private businesses planning and supporting a successful project.TEENWORK's
goal is to provide a forum for the youth of California to share
ideas and to discuss solutions to the critical issues facing teens
today, resulting in the implementation of programs and activities
at the local level. In 1996, TEENWORK partnered with the Tulare
County Office of Education, to run the statewide Friday Night
Live.
The California Youth Council
(CYC) is a state-wide council of young people committed to raising
awareness on youth issues.
Young people are competent and capable citizens
who have an interest in their community. Youth development is
not only discussed in CYC meetings, it is practiced! High school
age youth from all parts of California, with different opinions
and experiences make up the CYC. The common thread that holds
this diverse group together is, all are committed to making positive
change happen in their communities.
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