Young Adults Succeed

WE COUNT: YOUth Summit

March 15, 2019 | BY Dylan Woloszczuk-Young Adults Succeed Coordinator (Long Island City High School)
On Saturday, March 9, Zone 126 held its second annual Youth Summit at the Variety Boys & Girls Club of Queens. The event drew almost 80 students out for a half-day event where youth were included this year in the planning process. The theme for this year’s summit was WE COUNT, with an emphasis on wellness and planning for the future. Some of the day’s activities consisted of, resume building, planning for a transition post high school, the importance of voting, and gender norms, to name a few. Several students from Long Island City High School helped to plan this year’s summit, and design workshops aimed to give youth the opportunity to safely express their thoughts and feelings about identity in this day and age. The student facilitators and student attendees were excited to come together to discuss this topic, because they lack the spaces needed to have these type of discussions. Anahi, one of the student facilitators said “I really enjoyed being able to co-facilitate the debate workshop. I had fun hearing the various opinions and seeing everyone have a fun time.” We want to give a special thank you to our partners who helped make the day a huge success: City Harvest, Community Word Project, Global Kids, Let’s Get Ready, and our amazing Facilitators/Community Volunteers: Cormac Nataro and Jose Dobles.
A Special thank you to Variety Boys & Girls Club of Queens for hosting the event this year.

Catch up on the latest

Zone 126
June 10, 2023

ABC NEWS: Program offering free laundry aims to wash troubles away for students in Queens

Read More
Zone 126
June 09, 2023

PATCH: Free Laundry Service Opens For Students In Astoria

Read More
Zone 126
February 17, 2022

Queens Chronicle: LICHS pantry opens

Read More
Zone 126
September 01, 2021

A Decade of Community Impact

Read More
Zone 126
May 26, 2021

Queens Eagle: Queens resident dubbed hunger hero for pandemic pantry efforts

Read More
Uncategorized
April 01, 2021

Zone 126 Stands In Solidarity With the AAPI Community

Read More
Family & Community Engagement
December 30, 2019

Celebrating Parents In The Attendance Process

Read More
Young Adults Succeed
December 15, 2019

Conversations with our Youth

Read More
Students Achieve
December 05, 2019

A Hub Has Formed at IS 126Q

Read More
Uncategorized
December 01, 2019

Zone 126 Hosts the Queens Borough President Candidate Education Forum

Read More

Keep in Touch

Subscribe to receive our monthly newsletter and updates.