4th Annual Youth Character and Leadership Day

The Sterling House Community Center is pleased to announce the 4th annual Sterling House Youth Character and Leadership Day, which is a program for students in grades 9 through 12 who will be actively engaged in skill and leadership development sessions.

This year’s Youth Character and Leadership Day is scheduled for Thursday, April 25 at Sterling House from 12:30 to 5 p.m.

The day will begin with a free lunch during registration and includes development sessions from professionals including Wally Hauck of Optimum Leadership, Inc. Anita Taylor of Anita & Company LLC, and Daniel Blanchard, teaching consultant at UCONN’s Writing Project Land author of the Granddaddy Secrets series. 

This is Blanchard’s third year speaking at Sterling House’s Youth Character and Leadership Day, and will be Hauck’s and Taylor’s fourth year presenting at the program.

Blanchard has earned seven degrees, teaches social sciences at Connecticut’s largest inner city secondary school. Hauck holds a doctorate in organizational leadership and a masters in business administration. Hauck also had led his firm, Optimum Leadership, for over 16 years. Taylor is President and COO of her firm, Anita and Company, and is a longtime volunteer with the Girl Scouts. 

The development sessions will cover many interrelated aspects of Character and Leadership including Knowing Yourself and Trusting Yourself, Decision Making, Goal Setting, Time Management, Networking, Communication, Motivation, and the Benefits of Community Service.

In addition to providing great resume experience, leadership development skills also provide young adults with necessary problem solving and communication skills needed in today’s work force.

Youth leadership and team building experience provides a holistic approach to social and personal development. Such benefits and skills improved are problem solving skills, civic participation, community engagement, higher and more ambitious career and academic aspirations, according to a 2010 study published by the Texas Department of State Health Services, commissioned
by the Texas State University, San Marcos and the Texas School Safety Center.

According to the Sierra Health Foundation’s 2006 study, Empowering
Youth,  additional positive outcomes are achieved through youth leadership activities include stronger interpersonal relationships and communication skills, a greater understanding of diversity, and self-empowerment, autonomy and self-esteem.

For more information and to pre-register, please contact Bob Wargo at 203.378.2606 or  rwargo@sterlinghousecc.org.