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<p class="MsoNormal">Please excuse any cross-prosting. See below for a message from Neutral Zone.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Cathy Lancaster</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="color:black">Library of Michigan<br>
702 W. Kalamazoo St.<br>
Lansing, MI 48915</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><b><span style="color:black">|</span></b><span style="color:black"> 517-335-8129
<b>|</b> </span><a href="http://www.mi.gov/libraryofmichigan">www.mi.gov/libraryofmichigan</a><span style="color:#1F497D">
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are offering a 1-day training for adults in our Youth Driven Spaces approach in Lansing (March 14) and Saginaw (March 15). The cost is ONLY $5!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#666A73;letter-spacing:.4pt">With a grant from MCACA’s New Leaders Council the Neutral Zone -- a nationally recognized arts and leadership space for teens located in Ann Arbor -- will offer
a one-day introductory training in its Youth Driven Spaces (YDS) model in Lansing (March 14) and Saginaw (March 15). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#666A73;letter-spacing:.4pt">YDS is designed to help agencies that serve older youth incorporate practices and strategies that use program, organization and governance roles as an opportunity
to build youth proficiencies as well as increase their participation and engagement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#666A73;letter-spacing:.4pt">Neutral Zone designs its workshops to be active, engaging and focused on practical strategies and practices that can be directly applied to your work. As a result
of the one-day training participants will:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#666A73;letter-spacing:.4pt">Understand the components of youth-adult partnerships (YAP) and how to support YAP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#666A73;letter-spacing:.4pt">Identify meaningful roles youth can play in programs and organizations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#666A73;letter-spacing:.4pt">Learn the components and stages of Neutral Zone’s Teen Advisory Council<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#666A73;letter-spacing:.4pt">To register for Lansing, March 14th:
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:130%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:130%;color:black">John Weiss, Director of Strategic Initiatives</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;line-height:130%;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:130%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:130%;color:#0070C0">Neutral Zone | Where Teens Lead, Create and Innovate
<a href="https://twitter.com/youthdriven" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"><img border="0" id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://www.snoitulosten.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/twitter-small.jpg"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;line-height:130%;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:130%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:130%;color:black">310 E. Washington
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:130%;color:#0070C0">|</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:130%;color:black"> Ann Arbor, MI 48104
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:130%;color:#0070C0">|</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:130%;color:black"> 734.214.9995 ext. 222
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</b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;line-height:130%;color:black"><a href="http://www.neutral-zone.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:130%">www.neutral-zone.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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