Great Opportunity For Teen Students of Military Families

From America’s Promise Alliance, the deadline for submitting applications is this Friday, December 16.

The America’s Promise Alliance Grad Nation campaign aims to end the high school dropout crisis by examining what factors cause a student to drop out and promoting the solutions that best address the problem. Military children are a fundamental part of this campaign: we know that they face unprecedented challenges that may impact school performance, but that they have a tremendous capacity for resilience and can teach us a great deal about overcoming adversity. 

Do you know a military child in your community who is working hard to empower their peers to succeed in school? Or, do you know a young person that has struggled on the road to graduation and can speak his or her mind? These young people make excellent candidates for attending the Building a Grad Nation Summit in March 2012. 

Because they feel that the attendance of young leaders is so important, the Alliance is covering the cost of travel, lodging, and meals for up to 50 great candidates, so they are able to have a once in a lifetime experience in the nation’s capital! Please feel free to forward this opportunity.

They want military children to have a direct and personal voice in the upcoming summit; it’s not enough for us to speak for them. This year, The Initiative for Military Families at America’s Promise Alliance is taking steps to ensure that young leaders, as an important stakeholder, play a major role in the Building a Grad Nation Summit.  We invite military children to meet a wide array youth from across the country as well as civic and business leaders, elected officials, educators, faith leaders, parents, and volunteers, involved in rallying for awareness and change in education. The idea is that by including them in the Summit, they can take home new ideas, an emboldened passion for the Grad Nation campaign, and a network of allies to help them encourage more of their peers to graduate on time ready for college, work and life.

This is an Impact Network opportunity, which hopes to create an alliance of young leaders from across the nation, uniting and empowering youth to take action through and with the support of Alliance partners to address the challenges facing their communities. As an Impact Network opportunity America’s Promise Alliance wants to ensure that each young leader:

• Is between the age of 13-25
• Is available March 18-21, 2012
• Eager to learn more about initiatives to lower the national dropout rate
• Has a passion for helping create opportunities for his/her peers in the community
• Likes to speak his/her mind

 The America’s Promise Alliance prepared two ways to recruit attendees. One is a short application that you can share with young people to complete.  Another option is for you to nominate a youth that you feel would be a valuable addition to our spectrum of voices.  Below are both of these forms:

Youth Application CLICK HERE

Nomination Form (for adults) CLICK HERE

MZspouse (I didn’t author this; I’m just sharing the information as passed along to me)