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COLLEGE CLASSES
For adults who work with young people.
(Offered in partnership with Thomas Nelson Community College)

Creativity & Youth Engagement
Friday, Feb 5, 4-7 pm
Saturday, Feb 6, 9am-4pm
Friday, Mar 12 4-7pm
Saturday, Mar 13, 9am-4pm

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Advancing Youth Development
Saturday, Mar 20, 9am-4pm
Saturday, Apr 10, 9am-4pm
More on this class or to register.

Professionals who find these classes beneficial are: afterschool workers, teachers, early childhood providers, youth ministers, juvenile justice workers, supervisors of youth workers.

For more information or to register for classes contact Bernie Tennyson at Alternatives,
(757) 597-2801x312 or btennyson@altinc.org

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In the NEWS

READ: Student Advisory groups provide input on budget cuts to Hampton Superintendent. Daily Press

WATCH: AmeriCorps, and Youth Volunteer Corps Mobilize Teens to Honor King on Day of Service.
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READ: Article on how Hampton's Youth Civic Engagement program leads a national trend to "Build Better Citizens". Miller-McCune News

Alternatives is cited in National League of Cities Report on Leadership for Children and Families
Hampton City Page/Daily Press

Inside Business
The Hampton Teen Center is re-writing the rules for youth involvement.

Inside Business

Daily Press front page story of the Spring Fest Youth Rally
Daily Press

Auction 2009
Daily Press profile and interview with Auction Chair Sandy Donaldson
Daily Press

Financial Literacy for Youth: Alternatives receives service learning grant from State Farm Youth Advisory Board Daily Press Story

Daily Press story about Alternatives' high school group Youth Achieving Change Together's (UTHACT) successful effort to win a spot on the Hampton School Board. Daily Press .

Read the Daily Press story about the ground breaking of Hampton's new Teen Center. Alternatives is a partner with Hampton Parks and Rec and the Hampton Coalition for Youth in the development of the Center. Daily Press

Read a feature about Alternatives' KICK program on the America's Promise website.

Community Reports

Report to Keeping Our Kids Safe Steering Committee

Virginia School Age Child Care Association (VSACCA) Presentation

Hampton Teen Center Youth Advisory Board

Engaging Youth Through Service in the Community: A Capacity Building Model Presentation to America's Promise

Al's Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices Presentation to Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation

Al's Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices Summary Report

Youth Development Presentation to Keeping Our Kids Safe Steering Committee

Can Do!
1,123 POUNDS of food, donated

AmeriCorps, and Youth Volunteer Corps Mobilize Teens to Honor King on Day of Service

Americorp members
Americorp members led hundreds of young people and adults in a food drive to benefit the Food Bank of the Virginia Peninsula's Child Backpack Program.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service was marked in Hampton with a massive food drive to benefit the Virginia Peninsula Food Bank.  The Hampton Teen Center Americorp members and Youth Volunteer Corps mobilized a hundred teens and adults to canvass the Farmington and Michael’s Woods neighborhoods for food items to be used in the Child Backpack Program run by the Virginia Peninsula Food Bank.

AmeriCorp members and local residents joined hundreds of thousands of Americans in making the holiday a day ON, not a day OFF by serving in honor of the slain civil rights leader’s legacy of service.

Food drive volunteers gathered together again on January 25th to enjoy a free dinner reception and service certificate ceremony at the Hampton Teen Center. Over 1000 cans of food were donated to the food bank.