Youth Across Europe

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Youth Across Europe
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They take hard work, training, focus, teamwork,
leadership, goals, rules, money, motivation,
trust, drive, creativity
Champion teams dont just happen!
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Our YAE 2004 Convocation Convention
RepresentativeTeam

• Ashley Litzenberger All Saints Church,
  Waterloo, Belgium
• Carly Wilson St. Augustine of Canterbury,
  Wiesbaden, Germany
• Marie-Noëlle Whalon The American Cathedral of
  the Holy Trinity, Paris, France
• Naashika, Addo Christ the King Church,
  Frankfurt, Germany

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Our YAE Team

• Past, Present, and Future Reflections

Thank you for your inclusion, support and
confidence in us !
Our Vision is becoming clear.
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Our YAE Year in Review

• Given voice and seat at the annual convention
• Increased funding and support

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We need YAE LeadershipCooperation and
Communications

• YAE Coordinator
• Parish Youth Leaders
• Parish Youth Delegates

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We need aYAE CoordinatorNow

• Let us be a part of interview process
• Consider our leadership needs and desires
• Technologically knowledgeable
• Someone we can relate to and trust
• Be our YAE advocate to the Convocation
• Aware of and concerned with our needs and desires
  
• Recent seminary students provided to function as
  support to the coordinator

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Communication CoordinationRequirements for Our

• YAE Coordinator
• Keep parish youth up-to-date on Convocation
  issues
• Communicate all convocation issues in laymans
  terms
• Organize meetings/report distribution
• Provide liaison to Convocation committees
• Distribute calendars of events to parish youth
  leaders
• Phone call reminders
• Distribute event information hardcopies to parish
  youth leaders
• Organize events with local school schedules
• Minimizing need to miss school

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Communication CoordinationRequirements for Our

• Parish Youth Leaders
• Follow-up and assist in coordination at parish
  level
• Distribute information from YAE coordinator to
  parish youth
• Phone call reminders
• Provide youth information updates to YAE
  coordinator

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CoordinationRequirements for Our

• Parish Youth Delegates
• To gather information and issues of the local
  AND international youth.
• Reactions to current Convocation and Convention
  issues
• Lists of youth concerns to be presented to
  Convention
• Youth expectations for YAE activities/missions
• Yearly local parish youth activity review
  reports
• Report back to Local Parish
• Current Convocation results
• Report back to local parish upon return from YAE
  event/activities, and missions
• Provide leadership and liaison to
• Local parish
• Convention committees
• Building a bridge between the parish and the
  Youth
• Yearly goals for YAE

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CommunicationRequirements for Our

• YAE in general needs
• Our own parallel YAE delegate convention
• Prior to the Convocation Convention
• Designed for YAE wide planning and goal setting
• Reports from Convocation committees
• Advance Convention issue breakdown and
  explanations
• As a result of this we can present more detailed
  information about basic goals for the year.
• Improved communication between the youth across
  Europe
• Our own website
• Secure, controlled, and maintained by YAE
  coordinator
• Address book-YAE directory
• Alumni section to keep in touch
• Calendar planned a year in advance
• Hard copies of information on website

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We needFinancial Information

• We want to establish a YAE only fund to help
  youth with service/mission projects

• Parish youth organize projects to contribute
  funds into a YAE pot for
• YAE activity expenses
• Activity scholarships

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We needFinancial Information

• Details (Rowthorn fund)
• How to access funds?
• How entitled?
• We want to establish a YAE only fund to help
  youth with service/mission projects

• Parish youth organize projects to contribute
  funds into a YAE pot for
• YAE activity expenses
• Activity scholarships

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Convention Related IssuesImportant to Us

• Maintain honor and responsibility of having youth
  representation at convention
• Allowed access to YAE fund distribution
  information
• Have say in distribution debates about YAE funds

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They take hard work, training, focus, teamwork,
leadership, goals, rules, money, motivation,
trust, drive, creativity
Champion teams dont just happen!
Our Youth are not just our futurethey are our
partners today!