TEEN SAVVY !

Teen Savvy Mission:

"To represent positive young females in the community and spread it among othe communities. To be responsible and respectful. To gain self-awareness, self-discipline, eduaction and dedication. To mature and develop into positive young ladies."

Goals:

• To expose female students to learning everyday and life-long personal and social skills.
• To enhance and strengthen self-esteem and focus on bringing out the full potential of the young ladies all in an enjoying fun-fined atmosphere.

Objectives:

• To develop and facilitate activities that address the needs of female students.
• To practice techniques that promotes good mannerism and behavior.
• To experience new things and to help create new ideas for our program.
• To instill feelings of unity and understanding.
• To increase effective communication skills within students.
• To expose students to parliamentary and political procedures.

Action Plan:

• To organize a program which helps develop and implement leadership skills.
• To develop, implement, and evaluate activities that improve self-awareness, positive self-esteem, and serf-discipline.
• To Encourage hands on participation. Sponsor field trips.
• To incorporate speakers and presentations in the learning program.

Participation:

Students participate in weekly meetings that include the following: warm up exercises, self- development workshops, and practice of stepping routines. The Teen Savvy program will meet weekly on Tuesdays, 2:45pm -4:00pm in the Center for Opportunity at Holmes Middle School. There are also weekend workshops, where the girls spend Saturday and Sunday bonding with eack other and the MU Phi sorors. Teen Savvy has membership expectations of good attendance, maintenance of a 2.0 GPA or Higher, displaying good conduct, being reliable and dependable and showing creativity and participation.

Monthly Themes:

• October Parliamentary Procedures and Communication Skills Month
• November Economic Awareness Month
• December Encouraging Etiquette Month
• January Career Foals Month (trad. or non-trad, gender jobs)
• February African-American History Month
• March Serf- Pride and Sisterhood Month
• April Substance Abuse Awareness Month
• May Intercultural Awareness Month
• June Relax, Relate and Relief Month

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