NYYM Youth Institutes

Youth Institutes: Meeting the Needs of Quaker Youth

What are Youth Institutes?

Youth Institutes offer a forum for participants to:

• Share what is working in monthly meetings and regions
• Explore ways through the difficulties encountered
• Discuss frameworks for thinking about programming for youth.

The Institutes include hands-on training in various aspects of youth work per the interest of participants through a choice of mini-workshops, which might include:

• Community building activities, the use of games in spiritual work
• Identifying opportunities for and leading service-learning programs
• Avenues for spiritual growth in youth
• Exploring sex & gender issues
• Available curriculum, curriculum design and modification
• Teens and Quakerism Today
• Art as a spiritual medium

The institutes are open to anyone interested in making their meeting a multigenerational faith community.