Oranges & Maplewood NAACP To Hold ‘Youth Summit’

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The following news release comes courtesy of the Oranges & Maplewood NAACP. Learn more about posting announcements or events to your local Patch site here.

The Oranges & Maplewood NAACP Young Adult and Youth Works Committees will host their 2nd Annual Youth Summit from 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8 – titled, ‘What’s Next?” – at The HUUB, Inc located at 35&47 Cleveland Avenue in Orange.

The summit is open to all high school students, college students, and young professionals, and is accessible by registering for free on Eventbrite here.

The summit will feature a panel of experts to address the following topics:

S.T.E.M./Blacks in Tech

• Cimone Crump - a quality and operations improvement-focused Senior Manager who has designed and implemented the quality management program in Customer Success at Justworks while scaling her teams by more than 50% in the last two years.

Community Engagement/Policing

• Bishop Charles Mitchell – organizer of the Project Redirect Outreach Ministries Incorporated, long-time trustee for PBA local 183, and recent retiree from the Essex County Sheriff's Office.

Mental Health/S.T.E.A.M.

• Chuck Awe – the Director of A New Day Project - a S.T.E.M. & S.T.E.A.M. coaching company using Computer Science as a tool to provide access and prepare parents and students from urban communities with 21st century skills.

“The purpose of this year's summit is to inspire young leaders to take charge in their communities with an interactive experience centered on S.T.E.M., community engagement, policing, mental health, and voting,” said Danielle Thomas, Oranges & Maplewood NAACP 3rd Vice President, Young Adults Committee Chairperson and Summit Co-Organizer.

“Our goal is to provide workable solutions to the challenges young people face through thought - provoking discussions that meet our young contemporaries where they are, and by providing them a survival kit of tools to better navigate the road to successful adulthood,” said Jasmine Derrick, Oranges & Maplewood NAACP Youth Works Committee Chairperson and Summit Co-Organizer.

For more information, contact 973-339-7795 or youth@omnaacp.org.

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