The National Teen Leadership Program is honored to be included in the inaugural 2019 CAL-PAL Youth Mentoring and Leadership Academy (YMLA), working with A’ric Jackson from Generation Leadership. The YMLA event is one of the “flagship” youth programs hosted by the California Police Activities League (CAL-PAL). Dedicated to supporting the youth in each PAL community, they work hard to provide them with life-changing opportunities and experiences they would likely not be able to enjoy otherwise at no cost.
Changing lives at the Youth Mentoring & Leadership Academy with some wonderful Cal PAL youth! Thank you to Jennifer Lopez andA’ric Jackson – The Dream Achiever for this sponsorship opportunity to join the Generation Leadership Crew and to our NTLP staff volunteers Kobe, Darrell, Spencer, Derlin for working with youth these next four days! #CalPAL #YouthLeadership #NTLPcollaborates #MakeADifference
A’ric Jackson – The Dream Achiever kept it authentic and called forth greatness from the teens. We could see them growing in leadership within 1 day! (Also, Alumni Kobe did a dance-off with actor and PAL alum Miles Brown from the TV show Blackish and Kobe’s team totally won!) We ❤ our new friends in the GenLeadCrew! #youthleadership #NTLPCollaborates #CalPAL #GenerationLeadership #BeTheChange #keepitreal
We got to hear Sylvia Garner of Pure Empowerment Seminars deliver an amazing keynote on evolution of the self #womenspeakersrock! #empowerment and A’ric Jackson – The Dream Achiever brought the kids into an experience that helped them realize the importance of understanding another culture or way of living and getting past differences in order to live peacefully. #YouthLeadership Then, Derlin dropped the “kids off” to Disneyland! #workhard #playhard
A’ric Jackson – The Dream Achiever asked the kids to share how they will change and impact their community, and with some great ideas, they shared their commitment to making change happen in movement and dance! #NTLPCollaborates #YouthLeadership #GenerationLeadership And on the way home we found a a long lost Fosters ice cream to boot! #lifechangingweekend
We’d like to take a moment to honor our dear friend and Emeritus Board Member, Mark Miller, who passed away yesterday. He shared so much of himself with the NTLP family that words cannot do justice to the leadership of love he exemplified, the number of lives he impacted in a positive way, and the grace of his warmth. NTLP is but a fraction of those he has impacted.
For those of you who may not have known him, even though he was a retired school counselor when he joined the NTLP board of directors, he was a man of big heart and real action, volunteering tirelessly for NTLP for several years while serving on the board (as if it were his full time job). He helped NTLP build more partnerships in southern California, including with Bell Gardens High School and the Montebello Unified School District, to name a few. He did this in order to help NTLP reach more youth, and by golly did he more than deliver!
But more importantly, Mark graced us with his loving spirit, his friendship, upbeat positivity, encouragement, that wonderful warm smile, ability to see the best in people, and bring out the best in people. We love and miss you, Mark! You are a role model to so many of us. Thank you to the Miller family for sharing him with us; we send our deepest condolences to you. <3 (Thank you alumni Felicitas for introducing him into our lives; we have been so fortunate to know him and have never been the same since.)
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Dear NTLP Friends and Family,
This year NTLP launched our #NeedToLovePeople movement as a proactive answer and positive response to the rise in hate-related crimes and incidents. I am pleased to report that through grants and public support we were able to bring this message of love and leadership to nearly 1,400 teens in 2017!
We taught our young leaders to view our NTLP acronym in a new light: if you Need To Lead People, you Need To Love People. Through acceptance, peace, love, and tolerance any obstacle can be overcome and unity is possible.
I hope you will join our #NeedToLovePeople movement and donate today! What better way to earn a last-minute tax write off for 2017?
With gratitude and humility, I wish you and your loved ones a love-filled 2018!
Sincerely,
Jennifer Lopez
Executive Director
National Teen Leadership Program
#NeedToLovePeople
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NTLP: How is your first NTLP camp going so far?
Ben: I’m having an amazing experience actually. I’ve never been to a camp like this before.
NTLP: What makes it amazing?
Ben: I feel like I have more of a sense of belonging when I come to camps like these. And I feel very inspired this week. In a matter of two days, it’s crazy how much love and inspiration I can feel. Kinda makes me cry, but hey, it’s alright. A real man cries, right?
NTLP: What’s one thing you’ll bring back to your community from this NTLP experience?
Ben: One word — and it is LOVE.
Dear NTLP Friends and Family,
Ben is one of the TEEN VOICES THAT WILL CHANGE HEADLINES. There are more teen voices like his that are positive, uplifting and truly the voices of a better world!
You may have watched our first video “Let’s Change the Headlines.” We shared some startling statistics regarding heartache and lack of unity plaguing our country. NTLP is working harder than ever to empower and inspire teens to use their voices to create positive social change and to “Develop the Leader in Every Teen Today for a Better World Tomorrow!”
Please join our movement where leaders #NeedToLovePeople and click here to donate now.
We are getting closer to our $50,000 goal. Click below to donate and help Benjamin’s story be the story we all continue to hear for the new year!
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#NeedToLovePeople
As a mother, grandmother and the Executive Director of the National Teen Leadership Program (NTLP), I am deeply concerned with the world my children, grandchildren and our country’s youth are inheriting. It seems each week the news bombards us with yet another hate crime or mass killing report.
USA Today stated in a recent article, “With nearly eight weeks until the end of the year, 2017 has already earned a bitter honor: It is the most deadly year for mass killings in the U.S. in more than a decade.”‘
Amidst the aftermath of tragedy and loss, we often find that these senseless acts are motivated by hate, intolerance and prejudice. Hate crimes have risen by more than 20% last year, making 2017 the third consecutive annual increase in over a decade. This startling reality forces us address questions such as what kind of world are we leaving for our children? How do we help them cope?
Parent expert Dr. Deborah Gilboa states young children want to feel safe and assured the violence will not threaten them but older youth such as teens expect more. “Teenagers are looking for hypocrisy and solutions and this generation believes in collaboration and social justice. They will ask “What can I do, what can we do?” Do you know how to answer them?
NTLP, believes the answer is in teaching teenagers to work toward change. Solution oriented action teaches them to be resilient. NTLP is an answer to these questions. NTLP teaches our youth If You Need to Lead People, You Need to Love People
For 25 years, NTLP has inspired over 17,000 teens to affect positive social change as loving, accepting, tolerant leaders who uphold the equal value of everyone. These teens have learned to stand up for what is right and take action against bullying and hate-motivated offenses in their schools and communities. Sadly and clearly, 17,000 teens is not enough. Imagine if the people behind these crimes were shown or taught love, compassion, tolerance and unity in their youth. Would the world be different? Could the World be different? We think so.
If you want this world to be different, help us empower our youth to stand up against hate and join our movement where leaders #NeedToLovePeople
Our world is desperately waiting for new leaders to combat unnecessary hate and violence..
Let’s change the headlines together. Take charge and Donate Now!
Sincerely,
Jennifer Lopez
Executive Director
National Teen Leadership Program
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