iPromise campaign to start Tuesday
Program hopes to educate community groups on healthy youth
By
Robbie Byrd
News Editor
Huntsville’s Promise is kicking off its iPromise campaign, hoping
to educate community leaders on the most important asset our community has to
offer — our youth.
iPromise, a “common sense approach” to helping develop healthy leaders from
young adults, is holding an open workshop to share with youth-based community
groups on specific areas that lead to healthy young adults.
The group will hold its first preview of the program Tuesday at City Hall. The
program will begin at noon and 5:15 p.m.
“We’re putting together training and learning opportunities for developmental
assets,” said Scott Atnip, director of Huntsville’s Promise. “It’s a common
sense approach and model where by people can learn to better serve our young
people here in the community.”
iPromise is a part of Huntsville Promise’s Developmental Assets program, a
framework developed by the Search Institute of what students need to grow into
successful adults.
“They’ve identified these 40 different developmental assets or building blocks,”
Atnip said. “They’re common sense things that everyone of us can help students
achieve.”
The group’s iPromise campaign aims to take the message of these assets to local
groups that deal directly with children, and using those assets to help grow
more successful adults, Atnip said.
“Basically, we’re doing a condensed version of the program (Tuesday),” Atnip
said. “We can adjust the training based on any time frame a group may have.”
Atnip said that sessions can be anywhere from a lunch break to a week of evening
seminars.
“There’s a lot to go over,” he said. “It just depends on how much time a group
wants to give us.”
The group will also be using the preview session to fine-tune its message before
reaching out to educated other organizations.
“We’re going to have some evaluation forms there (but) hopefully we can start
signing groups up as soon as they’ll have us.”
Huntsville Item 07.09.07
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