Teen Leadership Institute:
June 26, 10-12:30pm at Latinitas Headquarters (1359 Lomaland)
Latinitas hosts monthly leadership workshops for teens on leadership methods, effective communication, decision making skills, goal setting, public speaking, civic engagement and volunteering. This leadership program is aimed at encouraging and motivating Latina teen girls to explore their own strengths, cultivate their leadership abilities, discover their voice and make a difference in their community through leadership and volunteerism.
Stay Teen Day
El Paso has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the state of Texas. To counteract this trend, Latinitas joined the El Paso Teen Pregnancy Prevention Coalition, and we partnered with the Teen Advisory Board at the University Medical Center to develop a series of youth-produced public service announcements on teen pregnancy prevention. Latinitas also served as a planning team member for the Stay Teen event held on May 28th at EPCC which brought together 200 local middle school students to raise awareness of the issue of teen pregnancy and to encourage youth to enjoy their teen years and prolong parenthood. This free event featured testimonials from teen parents about the challenges of being a young parent as well as an exhibit of information tables, a screening of Latinitas-produced videos and a carnival of fun teen-friendly activities where kids celebrated being young.
La Posada Home
Latinitas is partnering with La Posada Home, a shelter which helps homeless women and their children who have suffered abuse or abandonment, to offer monthly creative expression workshops for pre-teen girls living in the shelter.
Aliviane Partnership
Latinitas is proud to welcome Aliviane's Prides Center as its newest Affiliate Club Partner. Latinitas Affiliate Clubs are volunteer-led clubs made up of girls who participate in our creative expression activities. Latinitas volunteer Eva Alarcon has taken on the leadership role as the Club Leader and will be leading weekly workshops for middle school girls in the Chamizal neighborhood at Aliviane's Prides Recreation Center. Aliviane is a nonprofit that provides mental health and substance abuse and prevention services.
Club Latinitas Field Day
To celebrate the end of the school year, Latinitas hosted a Field Day for girls enrolled in several of our after-school programs on Saturday, June 5th at Armijo Park from 1-4pm. This end of the year celebration brought girls together for an afternoon of swimming, games and summer activities. During the 2009-2010 school year, Latinitas hosted after-school programs at Horizon Middle School, Armijo Recreation Center, Judge Marquez, Clardy Fox, Memorial, Ysleta, Richard Burges and Main Public Libraries. In our clubs, girls were guided by college mentors in learning how to create self-expression projects. Latinitas weekly after-school clubs provided a fun, safe and girl-only place where Latinitas build confidence, self-esteem, cultural pride, while learning to make healthy decisions and become leaders. This school year, girls in our clubs created projects such as making a collage explaining how beautiful they are, creating a friendship bracelet, designing a retablo on teen issues, creating a leyenda, writing a corrido, making a quilt, sharing survival tips for teens, discussing the consequences of being a teen mom, making a radio talk show, creating a parody of America’s next top model, organizing a Global Youth Service Project which served the El Paso community, creating a mother’s day craft and filming a telenovela.
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