Youth Leadership Development
Student Leadership Team
Students are invited to apply to serve on the Student Leadership Team.
The Student Leadership Team members serve as an example to the rest of the Unchained Talent family.
They are expected to ensure that everyone is respecting and living out the values of Unchained Talent.
They should exhibit professionalism and choose not to provoke, perpetuate or escalate a situation, but help resolve it.
Peer2Peer* mentoring Youth step up into a variety of roles within the program to teach one another the skills and life lessons they’ve learned in the program. Students may serve as Director, Playwright, Stage Manager, Recording Studio Producer, Choreographer, Lighting Designer or dozen of other roles where they exhibit leadership and convey skills and knowledge to their peers. Unchained Talent is a part of the Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprises to enhance youth employment in these peer mentoring roles.
*Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprises is a Baltimore-based coalition that is working for funding for peer-to-peer youth programs. In Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprises, young people are paid to share knowledge and skills with other peers. Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprises are youth-led. Adults are there to teach specific skills and guide the work – but the young people participating in these enterprises lead each group. Paid peers learn time management, responsibility, problem solving, while they gain expertise about the knowledge they impart to other youth. Paid peers transfer knowledge or teach their technical or academic skill, and are also role models and mentors to other youth.
