In my tenth grade year, I found myself in the Youth Leadership Highlands program, visiting different businesses in my community that I never knew existed. When I heard about the Youth Leadership Highlands V2 in eleventh grade, I couldn’t wait to join and give back to the community in Sebring. I became very interested and committed once I learned that our focus would be on the Child Advocacy Center. After my first visit during my tenth grade year, I was extremely curious about their work that they do with young children and teenagers. In the first meeting, I became aware of our specific goal: to renovate the center in order to make it more opening. Through many meetings and countless hours of
For social services day Youth Leadership Highlands had the privilege of visiting five places in Sebring. We started our day at New Concepts, an adult day care. Spending time with the people and making Christmas ornaments was tons of fun, and all of the smiles and spunky personalities were a plus! Next, we made a stop at the Redlands Christian Migrant Association, a child daycare provided for parents and migrant workers. Welcoming students and leaders showed us their classrooms and explained their association. After the daycare we went to New Testament Missions where we served food. We learned about the history of New Testament and all that they do for the community, it was an eye opening exp
Hello, I'm Bryce Langston, a Youth Leadership Highlands Class V member. This has been my second year participating in the program. As a way of putting to action what was learned from the first year of the YLH program, a group of other second year students and I were able to participate in a service project. For the past few months, we have met every three weeks at the Children's Advocacy Center (CAC) in Sebring with the intent of planning it’s redesigning, taking into account the teenage audience that it sees coming through its doors quite often. The idea was to redesign the CAC facilities to accommodate for younger children and teenagers, as both of these age groups need the CAC's services
Your Looking at it! MGSF is blogging. MGSF is excited for this new feature to go live very soon! Students from the community will be posting blogs updating and informing the public of their community service activities and memorable experiences with MGSF.
