Empowering Our Youth Through Knowledge & Awareness
2016 Teen Summit
Saturday, April 2, 2016
Marshall High School
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Greetings, We are
gearing up for our 2nd annual Breaking the Cycle Teen Summit. Our
planning team, which includes representation from the Fort Bend Women's Center
and the Xi Kappa Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, has been meeting
monthly to ensure we have a dynamic and motivating event this year. We
are excited about arming the youth of our community with the knowledge they
need to help Break the Cycle!
This year, we are
planning for 100 teens and have invited the students from Thurgood Marshall and
Willowridge High Schools to join us. While we will touch on some of the
topics we covered last year, we will also include new topics like a law
enforcement and self-defense session for the girls and a Go to High School, Go
to College and sex education (Project Alpha) session for the boys . We
will end the day with a group conversation on the topic of Consent. We've
seen this issue highlighted in the news several times this past year with
incidents that have involved students in this same age range. We felt
like this was an important dialogue we needed to have with our youth!
While we realize some of these subjects may be sensitive for some parents, it
will be presented in a completely age-appropriate manner by trained
facilitators!
To ensure that parents
are wholly informed of the topics that will be covered that day and for
planning purposes, all students must register using the link below and turn in
a signed parental permission slip in order to participate.
We are also asking that
parents who would like to attend the Parent Session (12:45 - 3:00 PM) register
as well. This will allow us to get an accurate count prior to the
event. The turn out for the parent session was not as high as we would
have liked last year, so we're requesting your assistance in publicizing the
session this year. The feedback we got from attendees in 2015 was that
the session was
very informative and
impactful!
STUDENT &
PARENT/GUARDIAN REGISTRATION LINK
The Teen Summit Flyer,
Teen Summit Permission Slip & Photo Release Form (also downloadable through
the Registration Link)
Consent Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGoWLWS4-kU
(A Cup of Tea)
If you have any
questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact me:
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