1. Taking your club to the next level: Youth Chairs

2. What adults can learn from kids | Adora Svitak
Adora is a writer, speaker, and advocate for causes including feminism, youth empowerment, and literacy.
Adora began delivering writing workshops at local schools after publishing a collection of short stories. Later, she began advocating for student voice at education conferences. In 2010, she delivered the speech “What Adults Can Learn from Kids” at TED. The speech has received more than 5 million views on TED.com alone, and been translated into more than 40 different languages. Her passion for amplifying the voices of youth led her to organize a team of students to produce a TEDx event for youth, TEDxRedmond. Pacific Standard Magazine called Adora one of the "30 Top Thinkers Under 30" and "an activist for feminism, liberal politics, and youth-oriented causes [...] pretty far up the road to becoming intellectual royalty." In 2018, she graduated with a major in Development Studies and minors in South Asian Studies and Creative Writing from UC Berkeley. She currently works at a nonprofit in San Francisco focused on child welfare.

3. Discussion questions
What are some ways you can learn and benefit from working with youth?
Why is it important to work with youth?
What can Rotary do to learn from youth?
How can we get more people involved in working with youth?
Have participants break out into groups and have them discuss these questions. Bring them back together and facilitate the discussion as a larger group.

4. How youth can help you and how you can help the world
Foundation
Relationships
Community
Foundation
Rotary can lay the foundation for youth – similar values
Additionally, you are gaining benefits now and long term benefits – especially around membership
Relationships
Youth really foster multi-generational relationships
This can be strengthened through mentorship – you benefit as well from youth
Community
Ultimately you are investing in your community
Youth are the future

5. How you can get involved – Rotary Youth Protection Program
Complete the quiz in the YPP QUIZ TAB OK to take the test as many times as needed to get a passing score
Download and complete the Background Check Consent from
Return Consent form with score confirmation with $ All of the $14 fee goes to the background checking service, to process your application.
Page managed by Paula Turcios McEvoy – Youth Protection Chair – update December 2018
Youth Protection Policy for all activities other than Youth Exchange Includes Interact, Rotaract, Camps Royal and Venture, transporting youth in any program
Download and view this Youth Protection PDF presentation OR View it online in the EDUCATION TAB
Certification
Complete the quiz in the YPP QUIZ TAB OK to take the test as many times as needed to get a passing score
Download and complete the Background Check Consent from
Return Consent form with score confirmation with $14
Instructions are on the form
All of the $14 fee goes to the background checking service, to process your application. You may attach a check and mail in with the application form below. Mailing address is on the form
Please do NOT use any other form than this one
Word   2018 Background check Auth  Instructions are in the form PDF   2018 Background check Auth
Certification Verification
Members will find their YPP expiration date in DaCdb, by editing their personal data and checking the YPP tab                 How to Club Officers will find their club member’s expiration dates in the YPP tab that appears on the DaCdb Home Page             How to

6. How you can get involved – Youth District level
Youth Exchange
Rotary Youth Exchange is an exchange program for an academic year to be hosted by a family in another country. The program is nine months long where individuals will gain exposure to new languages, new ways of living and a new lens on the world.
Interact
Interact is a service club for teens aged that works with and for the community through various events, service projects, and fundraisers. Interact clubs are sponsored by their individual Rotary clubs, which provide support and guidance; but, Interact clubs are entirely self-governed through club-elected officers and self-supported by individual fundraisers.
Rotaract
Rotaract clubs bring together people ages to exchange ideas with leaders in the community, develop leadership and professional skills, and have fun through service.
Here are the different youth programs from a district level. There are always opportunities to get involved.
Youth Exchange – study abroad program
Camp Royal – leadership camp around emotional intelligence
Camp Venture – business camp
Interact – local/district program
Rotaract – local/district program
Camp Royal
Camp Royal is the Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) Conference organized each June in the mountains of Northern California. Camp Royal is an intensive leadership where you develop your skills as a leader while having fun and making connections.
Camp Venture
Camp Venture is a five day entrepreneurial boot camp held at the end of June each year for students who have an interest in pursuing business specifically entrepreneurs. Campers will work collaboratively to produce and present a business case at the end of the camp.