Salter HealthCare Sponsors Four Woburn Students in Conference on National Affairs

Salter HealthCare is sponsoring four Woburn students to represent Massachusetts at the CONA Conference.

Salter HealthCare, which has rehabilitation and nursing centers in Woburn and Winchester, is sponsoring four Woburn High School Youth in Government members, chosen along with 24 other delegates, to represent the state of Massachusetts at the 2015 YMCA Conference on National Affairs (CONA). The CONA Conference is taking place in Black Mountain, North Carolina, from June 27 through July 2.

The Woburn students selected for sponsorship from Salter HealthCare include Jessica Kergo, Jojo Mandra, Alex Paladino and Alex Brodeur.

The conference has six objectives, according to the YMCA:

• To gain an awareness of National concerns and issues.
• To increase understanding of Federal Government and its relation to State, National and International matters.
• To have and use a means for communicating concerns about National Affairs to appropriate persons and groups at Federal Government levels.
• To develop increased understanding of needs, responsibilities and opportunities.
• To work creatively together with young adults and adults.
• To help youth and adults to better understand and strengthen their values for living through the Christian objectives of the YMCA.

More than 700 delegates from 30 states and Washington, D.C., will take part in the mock national government activities conference, the YMCA said. The YMCA Youth Conference on National Affairs was founded in 1968 as a follow-up to the outstanding states Youth in Government programs.

(Photo courtesy of Salter HealthCare)