The Greene County Partnership’s Youth Council program will kick-off with a sign-up day on Saturday, July 15 at the Greene County Fairgrounds (Andrew Johnson Bank Pavilion). Students who attend any Greene County high school, Greeneville High School or HomeLife Academy are invited to join the council.
The Greene County Partnership’s Youth Council Program, which has received Greene County’s Volunteer Spirit Award for the fifteen years the award has been presented, is designed to involve high school students in a volunteer capacity for community service work and is a different curriculum-based program than the Partnership’s Youth Leadership Program. Criteria for certification from the Youth Council Program require students to perform 50 hours of volunteer community service in a school year.
Organized group activities are planned, and students can accumulate volunteer hours through avenues made available through the program, or on their own. Being a member of the Youth Council program presents a great opportunity to secure college scholarship monies available to students who give back to their community through service learning.
Students wanting to be members of the Youth Council program must attend the sign-up day. Registration time is 8:30-9 a.m. and the volunteer project is 9 a.m. until noon. A $50 membership fee covers the cost of a Youth Council t-shirt and folder/notebooks. For more information or to register for the upcoming sign-up day, please contact Jennifer Wilder at the Greene County Partnership, 638-4111, no later than Friday, July 14.
