Stone Soup Leadership Institute/Baltimore

Overarching Goals

• Provide leadership training opportunity for Safe and Sound's Youth Ambassadors and contribute to the citywide campaign to improve children's health and safety;

• Connect LEADERship Baltimore alumni with teens and community workers.

• Develop a feeder system for LEADERship Baltimore with future and emerging leaders.

New Skills

1. Learn community organizing skills from:

• Nane Alejandrez: multicultural after-school programs that prevent violence;

• Nathan Gray: media, advocacy, citizen engagement and systems development skills;

• Hulas King: apprenticeships and technology that are bridging the digital divide;

• Judith Kurland: creating public-private partnerships and neighbhorhood coalitions;

• Joe Jones: building networks of support for families with young children;

• Marianne Larned: using the power of storytelling to increase children's literacy;

• Will Morales: developing inner-city partnerships to reduce juvenile gun homicide;

• Annette Williams: engaging youth and disenfranchised people in communities.

2. Learn Leadership Development Skills: personal mastery, team development, communication, conflict resolution, developing goals for life and the world.

3. Learn Health Realization approach to personal and community change:

develop an increased resilency and ability to sustain learning and bring about change, renew hope and move people in their communities into action.

Relationships

• Increase skills shared by community workers and leaders with students;

• Increase number of doors opened by community workers and leaders for students;

• Develop strategies to increase support for teen and community organizer projects;

• Develop strategies for how to encourage people work together for the common good;

• Increase cooperation among schools and organizations who serve young people;

• Develop intergenerational, intersectoral collaborations with those who have consistent goals, programs and outreach constituencies they can work with to achieve their goals;

• Build allies to support policy, programmatic and funding goals;

• Learn about national initiatives and potential opportunities such as the Academic Partnership Programs: Historically Black Colleges and Universities' $250 million grant.

• Develop innovative strategies to communicate the Safe and Sound Campaign goals.

Knowledge

• Develop a greater appreciation for the complexity of cultural competency;

• Increase appreciation for their own and other cultural values that inspire service;

• Learn how to reach out to new and previously unreachable partners and communities;

• Learn how to develop meaningful, productive service projects with young people;

• How to use data to carry on programs, inform potential partners, outcome measurements so they can demonstrate they are achieving their goals;

• How service helps reduce negative youth behaviors (drugs, crime, drop out rates etc.);

• How to build social capital and effectively make use of community resources.

• Learn about national movements to increase social investment in communities.

• How to become change agents in their schools, neighborhoods and communities.