Youth Lead Change teaches high school students practical skills for effective changemaking, focused on environmental issues while earning community service hours.
Students learn to identify core issues, find common ground with others; enhance self awareness and communication for innovation and collaboration; systems design thinking, practices for mental/emotional wellness; healthy use of tech. We continually offer new courses and workshops in response to student needs and interests.
Examples of our certificate courses:
Design Build for Sustainability - Taught by FIU Professor James Brazil, Architect and Artist
Innovation & Digital Health - Taught by Andrew Dunn of The Center for Humane Technology
UN Sustainable Goals Summer Research Associate Mentorship - One-on-one mentorship with university professors and experts in their fields.
Social Entrepreneurship - Taught by Lynn University Watson Institute for Social Entrepreneurship’s favorite professor, Eduardo Balerezo.
We also provide Outward Bound scholarships for students and teachers to deepen their leadership and teambuilding skills through personal challenge and discovery in mountain and Everglades based courses in partnership with North Carolina Outward Bound Schoo.
HELP YOUNG PEOPLE BECOME AGENTS OF CHANGE FOR A BETTER WORLD
Youth Lead Change teaches leadership, teambuilding environmental best practices to empower young people to become positive changemakers. We offer high school students courses, workshops, and mentorship’s to create sustainable change.
Youth Lead Change Awards send promising young leaders to North Carolina Outward Bound School scholarship courses to deepen their personal insights and abilities.
What will they learn?
-Leadership
-Teambuilding
-Advocacy
-Empathy
-Inclusion
-Models for Positive Change
-Business Skills
-Civics
-Community Engagement
Organization name
Youth Lead Change
Mission Category
Education & Youth
Program Site Locations
All of Miami-Dade County, Key Biscayne, Miami: All Communities, Miami: Virginia Key
Annual Operating Budget
Less than $25,000
Primary Population Served
Youth & Children
Address
240 Crandon Blvd. Suite 108