Footsteps To Success Research Paper

My drive to help others stems from my time volunteering with the service organization, Rotary, and their leadership program, Camp RYLA. When I attended this camp as a high schooler, I learned invaluable lessons of self-confidence and connecting with others, traits seldom found in a high school environment. My experience at this program inspired me to return as a counselor, where I have been helping foster the growth of today’s youth for the past four years.

As a part of the Europe Trip group, I took part in various efforts to raise money for our trip, like pop can collections at school and around neighborhoods, fundraiser nights at Faros during which the group received a percentage of the sales, submarine sandwiches and soup sales, Cookies-and-Canvas events, and Rock-a-Thons. Additionally, I wrote several grants in order to cover the costs of the bus for the trip, one to the Barry Community Foundation and the other to the Barry County Youth Advisory Council (YAC). Outside of the Europe Trip, I go to Spectacular every summer, which is a leadership, sports, arts, and worship camp sponsored by my church, Community of Christ, and held at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa. Through Spectacular (Spec), I have built relationships with countless numbers of teens and adults throughout the United States in a positive and safe environment. It has taught me to value every single person and that leadership comes in many different forms. Each time I have participated has been a life changing experience and I cannot wait to bring what I have learned there into action through projects for the

Up to today, in a very short amount of time, I have had the opportunity to be able to visit numerous settings and participate in the activities that are offered by the following organizations: Foothill Unity, Boys and

For two years I worked as a camp counselor for the Western DuPage Special Recreation Association (WDSRA). In this time, I have worked day camps, inclusion camps, social program,s and even an overnight camp for children, teens, and adults with special needs. My responsibilities were to plan crafts and activities that were inclusive to the various needs and abilities of the campers. Most of all, being a camp counselor meant creating a safe and fun environment for each

Each of us will show we are leaders by being positive role models for these young people by showing them we genuinely care about them and their futures. We represent the service component by taking time to work in an organization that is in need of volunteers. We recognize that this is not a faith-based organization, but we chose to act on our individual faiths by doing God’s work and serving others. We will demonstrate the pillar of learning by working with children from different backgrounds than we grew up in. Also, we will encourage the children to learn through mentally stimulating activities in a fun

In fifth and sixth grade, I was invited to attend The National Young Leadership Forum, an organization dedicated to serving academically gifted and talented youth. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to spend a week in Washington D.C., where I learned the qualifications of a righteous leader and to develop academic abilities and interests. I will bring my knowledge of leadership to sustain a school community in which students will strive to maintain integrity and trust with each other. By engaging in community service, I have an opportunity to learn experientially, expose myself to diversity, and develop a sense of responsibility. By volunteering in multiple ways in the last several years, I was able to knit hats for children in hospitals, help at a local food bank, create and donate bookmarks for third graders, and help at the Bellaire Public Library. Helping others has given me a great sense of satisfaction and I plan to continue working on various community service projects in the future. Born and raised to Israeli parents, I am benefited with bilinguality, traveling overseas, exposure to other cultures, and insight on global

Six years ago, my life was changed forever. It was the summer leading into the sixth grade, and my mom asked me if I would like to help at a summer camp for special needs people. Honestly, I knew that I would be working at this camp no matter what my answer might have been. As I anticipated the first day of the week long event, I grew anxious; I was frightened by the unknown. Even though I've lived with someone with disabilities my whole life, my ten year old mind had no clue what the campers themselves be like. Despite my fears, this short five day week was one I would never forget.

The Junior Civitans Club is a community service organization that I have been a member of throughout my high school career. I participated in three Relay for Life walks for life, and helped to raise hundreds of dollars for the Relay for Life cancer research campaign. In my Sophomore and Junior years, I was elected to be on the Leadership committee as a Representative and later a Secretary. This year, I was elected President of the club and preside over all meetings and service projects. The Greenwood High School chapter of Junior Civitans “adopted” a girl’s cottage at the Connie Maxwell Children’s Home this school year. The Connie Maxwell Children’s home provides residential children’s ministry to abused, abandoned, and neglected children.

I wish to raise my involvement to the next level: as a Recreational Leader. I would like to join a team of students committed to the same interests as I am, and create something amazing for the hundreds of participants that have attended a Summer at Saints camp, and make

I have the privilege of being involved with such an impactful organization. While helping, youth developed lifestyle skills, I’m also developing skills. Each year I form some amazing relationships that create lifelong friendships. Excitedly each encounter with the youth helps build my belief on why it’s important to help others along my journey. Therefore, being involved with this organization has transform and impacted

The results were not nearly as I had imagined them. Fast forward to the summer after my junior year in high school and I am attending the same camp again, not as a camper, but as a Junior counselor that has been here for 3 straight years. One of the oldest JC’s still attending the camp. And I enjoyed every bit of the weeks I spent there.

I, Jonathan Kale Haywood, tend to be a humble person; however, when it comes to YMCA Camp Cosby, I feel like I can make a difference in the place I love. Camp Cosby has done so much for me, and I want to make sure that the Cosby Spirit lives on. I want to instill the values that I have learned at Cosby in others so that the world can be a better place. Camp Cosby is an experience that every camper learns something about themselves, and sometimes the parents also learn a lesson or

When I was first awoken before 8:00 a.m on a Monday morning in July, it is not hard to imagine how unamused I was. My mom had signed me up to volunteer for two weeks at the Munroe Meyer Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Their summer camp for kids with special needs ages three and a half through twenty-one had become my home for the next week. This camp provides an summer camp experience for kids who would not otherwise have one. The campers are divided into groups with staff and volunteers as well. A volunteer at Camp Monroe has a new buddy every day they help their buddy with tasks, offer encouragement, and give simple direction when needed. The activities for the campers include: swimming, cooking, sports, creative

The class as a whole chose to join with Firetree Place to promote the facility for adolescents to have a safe place to go after school, as well as to unite the community of Williamsport. Firetree Place is a community center for youth and has services such as mentoring. They are attempting to become a Big Brothers Big Sisters affiliate. They’re clients consist of youth in the Williamsport area. Most of these clients come from low-income families due to the services that they provide. Firetree Place holds activities like movie nights, as well as other events that are similar to the community day the class conducted.

I spent part of my summer in both 2014 and 2015, providing the children at Camp Impact, with an escape from their disadvantaged reality. The experience of working with these children, has provided me with a valuable perspective, and a new lens through which I see the world.