Youth Leadership Conference
Columbus, Ohio, October 22–24, 2010
We invite you to join us in Columbus, Ohio,
October 22–24, 2010, for the fourth Habitat Youth Leadership
Conference: Habitat 360. These three days will be full of workshops,
speakers, and networking opportunities. Connect with other leaders
from across the country, share ideas and get inspired.
This year’s theme focuses on the many
different ways Habitat builds around the world, from microfinance
to Neighborhood Revitalization to green building. The conference
will also strengthen your knowledge on Habitat fundamentals, fundraising,
advocacy and activities to engage youth.
We encourage everyone to share their best
ideas and present at this year’s conference. Workshop proposals
can be submitted until August 1.
• Participants must be 14 or older.
Participants under 18 must have at least one chaperone (21 years
or older) for every five students.
• Early-bird registration is April
1-May 31.
• Regular registration is June 1 until
all space is booked.
At the Young
Friends Working Group meeting held Sunday, March 14, 2010 at Friends
Center Young Friends discerned their new clerks for next school
year. Ellen Bryer, Young
Friends Clerk Alyssa Young, Advisory
Clerk.
Cindy Tanzer was appointed Clerk of
the Nurturing Committee The new clerks term begins May 1, 2010 at the Camp
Swatara Gathering.
Amanda
Silverman recipient of a 2010 Philadelphia Inquirer Student Citizenship
Award
Read more on PYM web page Click below to view
video.
Julian
Brelsford has been working with a group called Haiti
Partners and will be sharing his experience being in Haiti during
the recent earthquake, and what we can learn from Haitians about
love, a spirit of cooperation, resilience, and the ability to get
through tough times together.
The Food and Drug Administration Debates
Tougher Cancer Warning On Tanning Beds
Just as millions head to tanning beds to prepare for spring
break, the Food and Drug Administration will be debating how to
toughen warnings that those sunlamps pose a cancer risk.
Yes, sunburns are particularly dangerous. But there's increasing
scientific consensus that there's no such thing as a safe tan, either.
The World Health Organization's cancer division last summer
listed tanning beds as definitive cancer-causers, right alongside
the ultraviolet radiation that both they and the sun emit. They'd
long been considered "probable" carcinogens, but what
tipped the scales: An analysis of numerous studies that concluded
the risk of melanoma jumps by 75 percent in people who used tanning
beds in their teens and 20s[HuffPo]
Gap
Year?
Are you getting ready to graduate high school, and not sure what to
do next? While taking time out between high school and college, you
can take time in one of our most unique and vibrant cities –
Washington, DC.
William Penn House's Gap Year Program
Teen Depression & Suicide:
Sleep, Early Bedtimes Protect Adolescents
A new study shows that teens who go to bed early and get enough sleep
may be less likely to suffer from depression and have suicidal thoughts.
The results were published in the Jan. 1 issue of the Journal Sleep.
Read
more in the sleep education blog
Please
join me in a warm welcome to Hannah
Mayer as she starts her new job as Young Friends
Program Assistant.
Hannah is a graduate of Earlham College, majoring
in women’s studies, with a minor in religion. At Earlham
she served as a teacher’s assistant, as a campus advocate
for survivors of sexual violence and as a lead instructor
for indoor climbing.
Hannah also worked three summers as a camp counselor
at Shiloh Quaker Camp.
Hannah attends Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting,
and is a member of Maury River Friends Meeting of Baltimore
Yearly Meeting,.
Thomas
Swain ( Current Clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting)
and Joy Nelson at the Tri-Quarter gathering September
1975. Thomas was Cookie Caldwell's predecessor
as Young Friends staff and Joy proceeded Thomas as Young
Friends staff .
Us
1919
1st Young Friends Movement Camp Out more
pics
Would you like to be
on the Young Friends E-mail network?
E-mail cookiec@pym.org and
say you want on. You will receive announcements of Coffeehouses,
Quarterly Meeting events, service opportunities, Young Friends Working
Group meeting agendas and other neat stuff! A reminder:
If you change your address to some newer cooler address we won't
know it and you won't hear from us unless you tell us!
There is also a Young
Adult E-mail listserv for those over
18.
Philadelphia Young Adult Friends (PYAF) is a group of young
adult Quakers (roughly 18-32) and Quaker sympathizers meet together
and talk about their experiences and needs as young adults.
PYAF seeks to share life experiences and attitudes, and
come together as an energetic, supportive community of seekers.
They have a foundation in Quaker principles, ethics, and practices.
The group meets every other Thursday and Sunday evenings
for a potluck meal, fellowship and Meeting for Worship. Different
people take turns hosting the gathering. PYAF gatherings are generally
in the Philadelphia, with occasional events in the suburbs.
"Before You Enlist!"
is a 15-minute film that provides "the real deal on joining
the military" as told by veterans from Iraq to Vietnam, their
family members and other young people who've dealt with recruiters.
Produced by Telequest of Princeton NJ with support from the American
Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Veterans For Peace, the Coalition
for Peace Action, the Puffin Foundation and others, it is ready
for viewing (and download) via
You can watch the video at BeforeYouEnlist.org...
or at YouTube
This will require a high speed connection. It will take forever
to load on a Dial up connection.
Are
you concerned about a
potential Military draft?
Youth
and Selective Service registration
Whether or not you think you might
be conscientiously opposed to war, if you are in middle
or high school, consider talking to a member of your
Meeting, the Quakerism teacher at your Friends school,
or call the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting office at (800)
220-0796 (ext. 7240).
Whether clearness or counseling is needed, there are
web sites which contain updated information about registration
and the draft: Peace
& Concerns
Young Friends remember Haley Jennifer Yarmark
4/15/1990 - 5/11/2007
Photo by Holly Olson - Bucks
Quarter Coordinator
Photo by Cookie Caldwell
The Education Standing Committee of Philadelphia
Yearly Meeting, at its meeting on June 23, approved the re-naming
of the Sergei Thomas Memorial Fund to the "Sergei
Thomas and Haley
Yarmark Memorial Fund."
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Amanda
Silverman recipient of a 2010 Philadelphia Inquirer Student Citizenship
Award 
Whether or not you think you might
be conscientiously opposed to war, if you are in middle
or high school, consider talking to a member of your
Meeting, the Quakerism teacher at your Friends school,
or call the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting office at (800)
220-0796 (ext. 7240). 
