ZANESVILLE PAL - YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE - KING'S ISLAND
SUMMER - 2009
CINCINNATI- The Zanesville PAL sent 7 youth members to the National Leadership Conference held at Great Wolf Lodge by King's Island. The conference lasted three days and included presentations from professionals including topics of prevention of teen violence, drug usage and lifestyle. Additional speakers addressed gang influences, internet predators and peer pressures.
Participants worked together on projects with youth from all over the United States and were participants in many of the presentations. In all over 300 attended the yearly conference that included worlds of fun at the indoor water park at Great Wolf Lodge, swimming at the King's Island waterpark at Boomerang Bay and the King's Island Theme Park.
Zanesville's PAL Youth Leaders program include meetings learning citizenship, community service projects and learning fundraising management work and budgeting. YLC meetings are weekly at the PAL facility on Wednesday nights.
