Center for Scholarship and Faculty Development

Northwest Urban Youth Leadership Program

Vocation direction is shaped early in life. The Northwest Urban Youth Leadership Program has evolved to the signature program of SPU’s new John Perkins Center for Reconciliation, Leadership Training and Community Development. It began as a week long residential program for 40 ninth and tenth graders from ethnically-diverse lower-income areas of Seattle. It’s now expanded into a much more comprehensive eight week curriculum designed to train leaders for four youth development programs in the south end of Seattle. These students are selected by teachers and pastors as displaying leadership potential in order to explore ways to connect education with leadership and service. The program works in partnership with several community organizations and has a higher visibility in the community than it did under the original one week format.

Resources for:
	Students
	Faculty

	SERVE Programs
	SERVE Leadership
	Library Resources

The goals are as follows:

Help ethnically diverse young students envision future vocation, college preparation and entrance, as well as successful completion of degree through direct experience of college life.
Help students realize their potential and map out their trajectories to be future leaders of an increasingly diverse and multicultural world.
Assist Seattle Pacific University in maintaining contacts with an ethnically diverse Seattle community of young learners and improving recruitment of a diverse student population.
Provide mentoring opportunities for SPU undergraduates enrolled in the Leadership minor.

If you are interested in attending or for more information contact:

Tali Hairston

206-281-2455
tali@spu.edu