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| Name |
Title |
| Puliz ,
Vicki |
Chair |
| Allen,
Larry |
Youth Protection Officer |
| McDonald,
Doug |
District Scouting Chair |
| Singer,
Steven |
RYLA Co-Chair |
| Donohue,
Joe |
RYLA Co-Chair |
| Ailes,
Gary |
RYLA Camp Co-Director |
| Wilbanks,
Sam |
RYLA Camp Co-Director |
| Johnson,
Mike |
RYLA Fundraiser |
| Melcher,
Kevin |
RYLA Counselor Coordinator |
| Rehn,
Ron |
Interact Co Chair |
| Conner,
Bob |
Interact Co-Chair |
| Kenitzer,
David |
Rotaract-Rotaract Chair |
| Litton,
Michelle |
Rotaract-District Rotaract Representative |
| Ramback,
Allie |
Rotaract-Rotaract Club President |
| Copper,
Kaitlynn |
Rotaract-Rotaract Club President |
| Farley,
Kyle |
Rotaract-Rotaract Club President |
| Green,
Rachel |
Rotaract-Rotaract Club President |
| Spiller,
PDG Wyn |
Rotary Youth Exchange Executive Committee-Chair |
| Macquarie,
Chas |
Rotary Youth Exchange Executive Committee-Immediate Past Chair |
| Greene,
Jon |
Rotary Youth Exchange Executive Committee-Executive Secretary |
| Lease,
Guy |
Rotary Youth Exchange Executive Committee-Inbound & Outbound Orientations Coordinator |
| Lang,
Risa |
Rotary Youth Exchange Executive Committee-Outbound Students Coordinator |
| Beckwith,
Dave |
Rotary Youth Exchange Executive Committee-Inbound Students Coordinator |
| Cook,
Chris |
Rotary Youth Exchange Executive Committee-Recruiting Coordinator |
New Generations
The 5th Avenue of Service in Rotary
New Generations, previously known as Youth Services, has
been officially recognized as the Fifth Avenue of Service by
Rotary International. This formal action was taken in
Chicago during the April 2010 meeting of the Council on
Legislation, the legislative arm of Rotary International
which meets every three years.
District 5190 has a long tradition of outstanding service
in the area of youth services with great support and forward
thinking from District leaders, and the news was welcomed
with excitement and enthusiasm by District 5190 Rotarians.
New Generations programs include all our Rotary service
programs for young people up to the age of 30. In our
District, these include the RI Programs of Rotaract,
Interact, RYE, and RYLA, along with a large number of other
projects done at the club level. Youth Protection is another
important New Generations resource available to Rotarians,
clubs and youth programs at the District level.
So, why are New Generations programs so important that
they have now been recognized internationally?
We often hear that our youth is our future. This is
certainly true and one of the reasons that we focus on
literacy, leadership training, and expanding training in
ethics for young people. These are the people who will be
running our country and our world within the next 20 years.
Rotarians have always taken a sincere interest in helping
to prepare the next generation-with programs and projects
that help with health and education, and lead the way to
world peace and understanding. Beyond this fact, young
people are also the future of our organization if we choose
for Rotary to survive and thrive beyond our lifetime.
Through our Rotary youth programs, we have the opportunity
to not only provide service that is the keystone of our
organization, but also to develop relationships and provide
exposure to our wonderful organization and the ideals of "service
above self" to the next generation.
To briefly review our District's youth programs:
Rotaract is a Rotary sponsored club for ages 18 to
30. Rotaractors are involved in community and international
service projects, as well as professional development and
leadership training, and are good partners in service with
their sponsoring Rotary clubs. We have 4 Rotaract clubs in
our District-college based Rotaract clubs at Great Basin
Community College in Elko, Nevada, and in South Lake Tahoe
at Lake Tahoe Community College, community based Rotaract
clubs in Reno and in Nevada County.
Interact is a Rotary sponsored club for ages 12 to
18, typically at a high school or middle school, although it
is not limited to a single school. We currently have 16
Interact clubs in our District. Interact clubs are also
involved in community, campus and international service
projects. (The ages for Interact were changed early in 2010
from 14 years of age as the youngest, to 12 years of age.)
Rotary Youth Exchange, or RYE is the leading
international student exchange program in the world, and our
District sends about 30 students out to foreign countries
each year, and also hosts about 30 students from around the
globe to spend a year of high school in our communities. New
Generations Exchange is another cultural exchange program
for students beyond high school, for a shorter term exchange
experience abroad.
RYLA, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, in our
District, is a premium weeklong leadership camp for high
school juniors offered in two sessions in June. We
coordinate with District 5180 (Sacramento and surrounding
areas) in RYLA to increase the diversity of the students
participating in the camp. Every club in our District is
encouraged to send at least one high school junior from
their local community to benefit from the "life
changing experience" offered at RYLA.
New Generations also includes the many projects that
individual clubs undertake to serve young people in our
communities-such projects as the Dictionary Project, other
reading and literacy projects, scholarship programs, and
middle school projects, to name just a few.
New Generations Service intersects the Vocational Avenue of
Service in such programs as Career Coaching, Speech and
Music Contests, and the Ethics Initiative.
We even have a Fellowship of Scouting Rotarians Chair in
District 5190.
You can tell that there is a wide range of programs and
projects included under the New Generations umbrella.
Virtually every club in our District in involved in one or
more of these youth programs, for the benefit of their
community.
Beginning in 2010, it is recommended that each club appoint
a New Generations Service Chair to serve at the club level.
In smaller clubs, this may be a person who is already the
club RYLA chair, or who is involved in RYE or Interact. In a
larger club, or a larger community, this may be a person who
does not currently serve on one of the youth committees, but
has the ability to help communicate and coordinate between
the youth programs for the benefit to all, can help recruit
club members to service in New Generations, helps to develop
and maintain long term relationship with schools in your
community, and works with other club leaders to coordinate
overlap in the Avenues of Service to maximize each club's
service opportunities.
The New Generations Service Chair should be one of your
current or incoming board members, or at a minimum, be a
person who will report to the board on a regular basis to
keep you and your board up to date on financial and other
commitments needed to support your club's youth programs.
There are many District resources available to help you and
your club with respect to New Generations Service. Please
contact any of the District Chairs listed on the District
website for assistance.
In the works is a "Best Practices/Best Projects"
section on the District website for New Generations Service,
at the request of those attending the Youth Service Track at
the 2010 District Assembly. If you have a project or best
practice you would like to share, please email to the
District New Generations Chair. |
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