Y2Y

Y2Y Youth Group

Y2Y and the Strategy Team have been working very hard on a Post-Winter Carnival party. We plan to have games, movies, and popcorn right after the Winter Carnival Dance. There will be a raffle for awesome prizes! We have been working very hard and hope to see you all there!

Recently our group went to South Portland to the Sheraton Conference Center for a Peer Leadership Conference. Katahdin Area Partnership sent 11 students from the high school and 6 from Medway and 6 from Millinocket. Two students from Schenck were on the planning team for the conference that helped plan everything from the keynote speaker, to the food that we ate. The other 11 went down a day before the conference to help decorate and help set up for the conference. There were workshops on physical health, mental health, and social health. Six students from Schenck’s Y2Y Group presented at the conference on recruitment and retention of students in our group. Around 480 Middle School and High School students from 57 communities attended this conference.

Coming up in April, there will be a youth summit in Augusta that several students will be attending from both school districts. There will be three members of Y2Y on the Youth Planning Team, who will be planning the conference.

Current Community Projects:

Another reading buddies activity at Opal Myrick - The basketball players and cheerleaders recently participated in one of these events. Reading buddies is when High school students go to the elementary school, and the kids bring books to read with the "big kids".
Collecting 1200 pairs of shoes - This represents the 1200 people that die every day due to tobacco related causes. This will be centered around Kick Butts Day on March 28^th.
A Toxic box - A box that has items such as chemicals and poisons that are in cigarettes. Displays will be set up at 3 area schools.
A sticker shock at the local stores - Sticker Shock is when you go into a store and put big orange stickers on alcohol ads that reminds people that it is illegal to buy for minors.
A Hoops for Heart fundraiser at the middle school - The money raised in this fundraiser goes to the American Heart Association.
Bottle Drive after February Vacation to raise money for the Post-Winter Carnival Party.

For additional information about Y2Y, email Rhonda "Roni" Thompson, Adult and Community Education Director. Phone: 207-746-3423 or 207-447-0903