Youth Leadership Program

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Youth Leadership Program

• By Kevin Ong and Tanya Freedman

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Community News
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Youth Leadership Graduates Testimonials

• We followed up with a couple of the YLP
  graduates. Here is what they have to say.

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Sean Luke Van Wert, M.A. University of Toronto
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Kashmala Qasim 2nd Year Student, University of
Toronto
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Stephen Black, Civil Engineering, University of
Western Ontario

• The Youth Leadership Program was an enormous
  benefit to both myself and the class at large.
  Not only did this program enhance our ability to
  communicate orally, it was a character
  development exercise. Upon completing the Youth
  Leadership Program, every single student acquired
  an additional degree of self-confidence enabling
  us to welcome the opportunity to speak in public
  as oppose to fearing it. Personally this
  additional self-confidence has allowed me to
  confront any audience, even the most cynical
  group of academics, as if I was speaking in front
  of my own family. Hopefully a whole new
  generation of students will not be denied the
  opportunity to develop self-confidence and an
  aptitude for public speaking through Youth
  Leadership Program.
• Stephen Black

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Benefits of the YLP

• Developed by Toastmasters International
• Develop the Speaking and Leadership skills of
  young people
• Facilitated by experienced Toastmasters

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About the YLP Program

• A Youth Leadership Program is eight sessions, one
  to two hours per session.
• Typically each session is run once a week.
• The class size is 10-25 students.
• The age group is from 10 years old to 17 years
  old.

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Highlights of the YLP

• Session 1 Introduction to Chairmanship
• Session 2 Introduction to Public Speaking
• Session 3 Impromptu Speaking
• Session 4 Organizing your speech

• Session 5 Listening
• Session 6 Gestures in Speaking
• Session 7 Voice and Vocabulary
• Session 8 Show Your Skills

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Toastmaster YLP Article
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Resources

• Toastmasters International Article
• http//www.toastmasters.org/ToastmastersMagazine/T
  oastmasterArchive/2007/May/Articles/Teaching.aspx
• Division D Toastmasters Website
• http//www.toastmasters60d.org
• York Region District School Board
• http//www.yrdsb.edu.on.ca/page.cfm?idNW0103291