Recipient Organization
FORT PECK COMMUNITY COLLEGE
P. O. BOX 398
POPLAR,MT 59255
Performing Department
(N/A)
Non Technical Summary
This project will develop leadership skills in reservation youth through activities designed to place youth in "key" leadership positions for altruistic activities and events within the community. An innovative approach has been taken with this project to intentionally place high-risk youth with academic and athletic high leasers and social change agents, with their own community; realizing that many of them have not had that experience. This strategy will be assessed to determine whether the servant/leader model works in Indian Country. A minimum of 50 high risk youth and high academic and social achievers will be brought together through programmatic planning, implementation and assessment of leadership initiatives and activities to develop socialization skills, individual responsibility, and empathy as measured by the Family Environmental Scale (Moos, 1974) pre and post test results.
Animal Health Component
100%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
(N/A)
Applied
100%
Developmental
(N/A)
Goals / Objectives
Project staff will strengthen self-esteem and life skills in a minimum of fifty (50) youth through community leadership activities and specific leadership employment opportunities within the reservation community, as measured by (quantitative) Family Environmental Scale (Moos, 1974) pre-tests and post-test results of participants. Fort Peck Community College will provide in-service community leadership seminars, workshops and training to a minimum of 100 youth and young adults, and its effectiveness will be assessed through both internal and external evaluation techniques, as documented by monthly assessment reports and an external evaluation. A minimum of 50 high risk youth and high academic and social achievers will be brought together through programmatic planning, implementation and assessment of leadership initiatives and activities to develop socialization skills, individual responsibility, and empathy as measured by the Family Environmental Scale (Moos, 1974)
pre and post test results.
Project Methods
Youth and young adult participants will work with project staff to Indianize the servant/leader model to fit the Fort Peck Indian Reservation communities. Youth leadership coordination and administration will primarily be at the Wellness Center, although most activities will be outside (removing snow from elder sidewalks during the winter, raking leaves in the fall, planting and cleaning up in the spring, caring for and maintaining flower beds, gardens and yards for elders and others during the summer, etc.) Seminars, workshops, and large and small group training, internal monitoring, texts, DVDs, and other forms of media. Youth will work on specific community beautification projects, community garden, elder's flower and vegetable beds, servers at formal diners (if requested) ,and at other events, whereby the youth have the opportunity to be employed in high profile situations.Youth participants will be a combination of high risk youth, high academic and high athletic
youth for socialization purposes. The youth participants will be responsible for programmatic planning, working at the event, and assessing the success of the event or activity and be able to discuss lessons learned with regard to leadership and citizen development and empathy toward the less fortunate.