Chinese Youth Leadership Camp

The Chinese Youth Leadership Camp: Education for Future Leaders mission is to provide direction, leadership and guidance while building confidence through enhancing communication and team building skills in aspiring Chinese American youth. To prepare young leaders for the main stream community.

Camp Objective

To provide the youth a safe environment to build up friendships, cooperation, and social skills among group activities. Through the activities youth should learn self discipline and communication skills to empower them to take responsibility for their behavior. Encourage youth for creative expression to find conflict solution, collaborate with peers, accountability and trust. To strengthen their confident of goal setting and decision making through the camp activities and team-building.

Camp Structure

This camp consists of teachers, assistant teachers, a head counselor, counselors, assistant counselors. They all provide guidance to the camper to learn, have fun, and to meet new people. To create a more safe environment, campers are divided into classes where they can better socialize and learn in their own age group. These 5 classes are: 甲(jia) 乙(yi) 丙(bing) 丁(ding) 戊(wu). jia is young kids from the ages 8 to 9, yi is kids from the ages 10 to 11, bing is kids ages from 12 to 13, and ding is from 14 to 15

History:

Founded a few years ago, CYLC aimed to help each of its campers find the leader within him/herself. Strongly encouraging change from within, CYLC emphasizes the motto: "The heart is like a tree, it grows where it wishes." Providing a positive environment, CYLC hopes to provide each of its campers the opportunities to step out of his or her shell and just have some fun be it in learning to ballroom dance (where learning to lead and follow is key) or more practically, its etiquette class where campers learn the ins and outs of "acceptable" behavior from dining to dating. And these are only a few of the many classes campers experience.