Programs

Shaping Your Life

14-18 year olds - Thursday, 9:15am - 4:00pm

This course was created in response to parent and teen feedback for career/college/life skills development, more social time, more activities strictly initiated by youths and more advanced academic content. In order to meet these criteria, this program will run form 9:15am-4:00pm.

The morning segment (9:15-12:00) of the program will be devoted to developing life skills. Some examples of topics that could be covered in this segment are: How to write a resume; How to start a small business; How to get an internship and How to prepare for an interview.

Young people will set individual goals and use the entire group's resources to help achieve them. The early part of the year will focus on identifying one's goals and wishes, while the mid-to-latter part of the year will focus on bringing ideas to reality (e.g. Real Work experiences.) The morning portion will also include guest speakers and lectures on related topics.

The middle segment (12:00-2:00) will be an opportunity for youth to work on independent or group projects. Do you have a young person who wants to have a book club with other young people? Do you have one that wants to create a movie or song by herself or with other young people? Do you have a teen with a desire to start a club? This is an ideal time for it. Activities are youth-directed and facilitated by Mike and Diane, in the truest sense of that word.

The afternoon segment (2:00-4:00) will be similar to a Teen Choice program. Young people will be given options of topics to explore in-depth. The goal of this aspect of the program is to provide more advanced academic content and will occur in segments of varying length. Further development/study of these topics will likely continue beyond OC program time. The young people and facilitators will create these expectations, and the topics, together.

$2,750/year
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