Family Shelter Offers Leadership Training Program for Teens

The Rockland Family Shelter is inviting young leaders from all over Rockland to explore important issues, develop activist skills and find out how to can create positive change in school and the community through a special summer training program.

Rockland Family Shelter's Student Activists Ending Dating Abuse (SAEDA) Summer 2010 Training is open for enrollment to male and female high school students. The SAEDA training provides an interactive atmosphere in which participants explore topics such as qualities of healthy relationships, teen dating abuse, equality between all peoples and other social justice issues.

The deadline for applications is Friday, July 16. 

The SAEDA Program takes place in the community rooms at the Palisades Center mall in West Nyack Monday, Aug. 9 through Thursday Aug. 12. The group meets from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with breakfast, lunch and snacks provided.

The co-ed team of facilitators is led by Alma Reyes Evans, director of education at the Rockland Family Shelter in New City.

Students who complete the training will be eligible for a stipend and will earn credit for community service hours. To apply for the program or receive more information, contact Nathalie Desert at 634-3391 or at ndesert@rocklandfamilyshelter.org