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'America's
Rising Stars'
Leadership is
essential in enabling our youth to develop character, confidence,
and values that promote healthy behavior. In fact, employers
have ranked leadership as one of the essential skills entry-level
workers currently lack. Strong work ethic, problem solving,
and creativity are all necessary traits to develop in our future
leaders. Educators, parents, government officials, and
business people have all realized the importance of helping our
youth develop their personal leadership skills. Empowered youth grow
up feeling confident with themselves and with their ability to
achieve goals.
By investing more in
the positive attributes young people need, we can then expect high
yields (in terms of healthier youth) as young people become healthy,
contributing members of families, communities, workplaces, and
society.
The America's
Rising Stars Program is an innovative and unique, inside-out
development program that focuses on critical elements that promote
personal leadership, healthy behaviors, and the skills employers
identify as essential.
These elements
are:
- Developing
Positive Values
- Increasing
Commitment to Learning
- Achieving a
Positive Identity
- Setting
Goals for Achieving Success
- Developing
Character and Leadership Characteristics
The development
process begins by developing positive attitudes among the
participants about themselves and about the possibilities that exist
for them. Attitudes will directly determine in many cases whether a
young person turns a problem into an opportunity or succumbs to it
and whether he or she behaves in a healthy manner. Goal achieving
and interpersonal skills then enhance their ability to assess the
impact of their present behavior on their present and future
success.
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