December 2011 

About Us

  

Our Promises to Youth

 

Caring Adults

 

Safe Places

 

Healthy Lifestyles

 

Effective Education

 

Community Service Opportunities

 
This Issue
Coming Up
Youth and Family Resources
National Youth News
Contact Us
Apply for Small Grants
Collaboration Breakfast
The Five Promises

Coming Up

 

Jan. 9 -Application deadline for AA4Y Small Grants. Details. 

  

Jan. 16 - Winners of Small Grants program are announced.

  

Jan. 20 - Youth Collaboration Breakfast, 7:30 p.m. at the Mac Bernd Professional Development Center.

  

Jan. 26 - The next Global Youth Service Day meeting at Junior League of Arlington, 4002 W. Pioneer Parkway. Future meetings: Feb. 23 and March 22.

 

March 31 - Deadline for Extra Mile Award. See details. 

  

April 19 - First Rate Living Luncheon at Diamond Club at the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.

  

April 21 - Global Youth Service Day

 

The City of Arlington has plenty of volunteer opportunities especially for youth. Want to learn more?   

Click for volunteer opportunities.

Youth and Family Resources

We provide 33 different categories of helpful resources for youth and families on our website.

  
 Grants! Grants! Grants!

 

Funding opportunities for your youth organization through grants are currently accepting applicants. These grants are notoffered through America's Promise Alliance, but they each relate to our Five Promises. Details.

National News from America's Promise Alliance.

  

Contact Us

  
The Arlington
Alliance for Youth
  
P.O. Box 13579
Arlington, Texas
76094
  
817-860-0753
It's Time to Apply for Small Grants! 
Small Grants pic

January 9 is the deadline for online application submission for an Arlington Alliance for Youth Small Grant. Organizations with proposed projects centered on academic or life skills, community service, or even semester of service, are encouraged to apply for grants of up to $300.

 

Organizations planning to submit an application should do it now. Applications can be submitted electronically by visiting www.arlingtonalliance4youth and going to the Small Grants section. Instructions for applying and the application form are available on the webpage.

 

Winners will be notified by January 16 with awards presented at the Youth Collaboration Breakfast on January 20 at the Mac Bernd Professional Development Center located at 1111 W. Arbrook Blvd.

 

Semester of Service is a new grants category that encourages schools, church and other youth-serving groups to identify a community problem and develop a program that addresses it using the resources of youth. These projects require a minimum 70 hours of community service and will extend from Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January to Global Youth Service Day in April.

 

Each project must focus on meeting at least one of the Five Promises in America's Promise. The purpose of the Small Grants program is to provide support to adults that want to work with youth on service oriented projects. These grants are not intended to be donations to some larger cause. The project should receive a majority of its financial support from the grant, allowing for other minor donations or donations in-kind.

RSVP for 2012 Collaboration BreakfastCollaboration Breakfast

 

This year's Youth Collaboration Breakfast shouldn't be missed.  

 

Our annual event that brings together key leaders and youth service providers in our community to hear reports to the community, share concerns, honor volunteers and develop collaborative initiatives to help our youth is at 7:30 a.m. on Jan. 20 at the Mac Bernd Professional Development Center located at 1111 West Arbrook Blvd.

 

Details of AA4Y signature programs for the coming year will be announced and Small Grant recipients will be recognized.

 

We will also unveil our new AA4Y logo!

  

The keynote speaker is Dr. Scot Cressman, founder of the Power of Choice Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to personal empowerment. Dr. Cressman leads a team of motivational speakers whose mission is to redirect our youth towards positive behaviors with messages of hope andScot Cressman compassion.

 

Dr. Cressman earned a M.A. in Licensed Professional Counseling and a Ph.D. in Counseling before playing professional football, a career shortened by injury. Three years ago, he was invited to Texas to become a member of the Power Team, an evangelistic ministry performing feats of strength and sharing their biblical beliefs.

 

Determined to extend the message of empowerment to all members of the community, Dr. Cressman founded the Power of Choice Foundation and continues to travel around the globe making speeches. He has published three books, Breaking Through: Choosing a Life of Courage, Handling Your Hormones and Parenting for Parents.

 

RSVP or get additional information.

 
The Five Promises of AA4Y Caring adults

The Arlington Alliance for Youth takes great pride in mobilizing and then rallying both citizens and key agencies around the five promises embraced by America's Promise:

  1. Caring Adults
  2. Safe Places
  3. A Healthy Start
  4. Effective Education
  5. Opportunities to Help Others 

These promises encourage communities to support their youth by providing caring adults, safe places with structured activities, healthy start and lifestyles, effective education, and opportunities for community service.

 

By fulfilling these promises, we help build the character and competence of our youth. Additionally, these youth are five to ten times more likely when they become adults to be good citizens that care about their community and its youth. It's about paying it forward.

 

The next several issues will focus on one of the five promises, starting with Caring Adults, which is built around the premise that all children and youth need and deserve support and guidance from adults in their families, schools and communities.

 

"One of the critical elements in positive youth development is a relationship with an adult whom they can develop a caring and trusting relationship," said AA4Y Chairman Jim Walther. "A caring adult can be a lot of things, such an advocate, an advisor, guide or mentor. They are there to set boundaries and expectations for young people."

 

Adult-youth relationships are vital to the success of AA4Y programs, said Walther, who added that children who receive at least four of the Five Promises are more likely than those who experience only one or none to succeed academically, socially and civically.

  

Coming in January issue: Safe Places.

AA4Y

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