YOUNG PEOPLE'S TASK FORCE

Past events

  • Annual MLK Day Event 2021
  • Series of Community Conversations
  • Annual MLK Day Event 2022
  • Take Back Our City Event
  • Youth Summit Podcast Event
  • Fishing For Freedom Event
  • A Day on The Farm Event
  • Back To School Backpack Drive Event
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L to R: Rev. Jerry McAfee, Mickey Frost, Inspector Charles Adams, Al "AJ" Flowers
In a MN Safe Streets sponsored event, our Project Coordinator, AJ Flowers moderated a conversation between Minneapolis Organization Leaders, Minneapolis Police, and our Minneapolis Community Members. In attempt to come up with action items and plans to eliminate Community violence and crime. Some community organizations that participated and were in attendance were, the YMCA, 21 Days of Peace, 8218 Truce Center, Unity Community Mediation Team, GodSquad, Inc., Salem Inc. among others. Other key attendees included, State Rep. John Thompson, Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Ryan Winkler, Senator Bobby Joe Champion.

​Three-Day Youth Leadership Summit

Objective:  To provide community leadership training and skills development for young people, from diverse backgrounds, who are interested in emerging as leaders in business, government, industry, and non-profit sectors across our Twin Cities.
Topics to be discussed and skills to be acquired include:
The character and qualities of leadership
Moral and ethical considerations and expectations
Agents of change and transformation
Innovation and creativity
Compassion and understanding
Ability to delegate
Leadership foundations
Mentors
Practice
Training
Personal Development
Networks
Voice
Praxis

Day One: 

9:00 am    Registration and networking

10:00 am      Welcome

10:15 am    Panel: Overview and introductions 

11:30 am    Keynote (45 minutes) “Why Do We Need Leaders?”  (“Where Have They Traditional Come From?” What Makes A Leader? “What Needs to Change?”) 

Noon    Lunch

1:00 pm    The Character and Qualities of Leadership

2:00 pm  Panel:  Cohorts Purpose of cohorts
Livelong networking
Mutual growth or common inquiry
Interdependency

​4:30 pm   Closing statements for Day One

Day Two:

9:00 am    Leadership: Moral and Ethical Considerations

10:00 am    Discussion groups on morality and ethics

11:30 am    From leadership theory to practice

12:30 pm    Lunch


1:30 pm    Secret Handshakes

2:30 pm    Breakouts ~ facilitators
Personal Styles
Challenges
Is anyone listening?
Change and transformation

Making change stick

4:30 pm    Report outs
Diversity in leadership
Personal stories
Leading from behind
Adaptive leadership
Different styles
Different challenges
Different roles


6:00 pm    Break and Networking

7:00 pm    Dinner​    Speaker

Day Three:

9:00 am    Opening Inspirational Speaker:  “What Does Leadership into the Future Look Like?  How Do I Join those Ranks?”

10:00  am    Wrap Up
Panel, randomly selected from the group
Five questions


11:15 am    Participant Feedback, with suggestions for next year    11:30 am  Awards and certificates

12:30 pm  Local artist performance

1:00  pm    Depart with packaged lunches
Networking Event
Mentoring opportunities, by sector.
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