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<b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Are you interested in building youth voice and engagement in your teen library programs?</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">With support from the <a href="http://www.michiganbusiness.org/community/council-arts-cultural-affairs/#funding-process">New Leaders - Michigan Council for Arts and Culture Affairs</a>,
the Neutral Zone in Ann Arbor will provide its </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif"><a href="http://neutral-zone.org/youth-driven-spaces/"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Youth Driven Spaces</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">
Immersion program to 4 arts-based organizations across Michigan. <b><u>Application and additional information</u></b> can be found
<a href="http://goo.gl/VqMGBC">on line</a>. These groups will receive training/coaching support (<b><u>at no cost</u></b>) to help them build youth/adult partnerships that increase teen engagement and voice in their art programs and organizations.
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">The objective will be achieved by helping organizations build or expand a youth advisory council and through adoption of other youth driven strategies. Agencies who are interested in
applying should:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif">
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</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Serve older youth (ages 13-19)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Be committed to supporting ways to increase youth voice and engagement in their programs and organization</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">May have or are interested in creating a youth council</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Can identity and organize a leadership team of youth (8-15) and adult advisors (2-4) who can participate in an <u>overnight retreat</u> on <b>November 19-20, 2016</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Agencies participating in this initiative:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Receive all training and coaching services at <u>no cost, </u>including the 2-day October residential institute</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Agencies will cover their own travel cost to the November residential institute (in Jackson, MI) and an early spring summit (in Ann Arbor)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">If you are interested, please view and complete the
<a href="http://goo.gl/VqMGBC">on line application</a> by September 21<sup>st</sup>, 2016. Agencies will be notified around October 1<sup>st</sup>.
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<b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Additionally</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> – if you want more information, we will be holding a
<b><u>webinar</u></b> on <u>Thursday, September 8<sup>th</sup> at 11:30 a.m.</u> Registration details will be provided at the end of August.
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">OR for additional questions, please contact John Weiss, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Neutral Zone (</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif"><a href="mailto:weiss@neutral-zone.org"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">weiss@neutral-zone.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546A">Nourishing Michigan’s Future…during school and during the summer! Find a Summer Food Service Program site nearest you and encourage Michigan’s children to Meet Up and Eat Up!</span><span style="color:red"> </span><a href="http://www.michigan.gov/meetupeatup"><span style="color:blue">www.michigan.gov/meetupeatup</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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