MYC Youth Council members have had an amazing May! In addition to the regular weekly meetings, youth council members have been up to some cool stuff! On May 9th, MYC Youth Council members accompanied Milford Youth Center Director, Jen Ward and SCI AmeriCorps Member and Youth Leadership Coordinator, Victoria Williams to an Info Night at Memorial Elementary School. The Info night was directed towards the English Language Learners in the community! ELL students and their parents were grouped by language and paired with a translator. They walked around the cafeteria to see different resources and organizations within the community. The youth council members who joined Jen and Victoria are bilingual and assisted with translations! The kids did an amazing job. The event also had pizza and snacks for everyone who volunteered and participated! The Milford Youth Center has registration forms in Spanish and Portuguese both online and at the center.
MYC Youth Council members also participated in a trail walk led by Marjorie Turner for Easy Walks in Massachusetts on May 23rd! Marjorie Turner took the youth council members as well as other Milford Youth Center after-school members on a guided walk of the Milford Trail and Milford Pond! MYC Youth Council members also picked up trash on the way to the trail as well on the trail and around the pond! It was a great experience! For blog, click here.
Furthermore, an MYC Youth Council member assisted Milford Youth Center staff during the fittings for our 9th Annual, “Dressed Up, Not Messed Up,” Fashion Show! The fittings were on May 21st and 22nd. We also had another fitting on May 30th for students who were going to Washington D.C. with Stacy Middle School. MYC Youth Council members will be planning music and a presentation for the Fashion Show as well!To wrap up the month of May, MYC Youth Council members attended District Attorney Joseph D. Early’s Student Wellness Conference at Anna Maria College in Paxton, MA. We would like to thank Milford Public Schools for allowing us to ride to ride with Stacy Middle School’s bus. The MYC Youth Council members enjoyed breakfast and socializing in the morning… After, they set up their resource table as they were invited to host a table.
The kids watched a performance from Drug Story Theater, a group of youth who met in a drug rehabilitation center who decided to perform their life stories to help prevent addiction. 
After the theater, kids had lunch and checked out other resource tables while hosting their own. The event was wrapped up with The 84 Movement, a movement aiming to end underage tobacco use as well a speech by Ali Veinbachs, a college freshman who struggled with mental illness, self-harm and bullying from the age of eight. She shared her story and how she has overcome her struggles! She is now a Biomedical major at the University of Chicago! The MYC Youth Council members received an enormous amount of education and inspiration during this conference! That’s all for now! Look out for us in June!
After the theater, kids had lunch and checked out other resource tables while hosting their own. The event was wrapped up with The 84 Movement, a movement aiming to end underage tobacco use as well a speech by Ali Veinbachs, a college freshman who struggled with mental illness, self-harm and bullying from the age of eight. She shared her story and how she has overcome her struggles! She is now a Biomedical major at the University of Chicago! The MYC Youth Council members received an enormous amount of education and inspiration during this conference! That’s all for now! Look out for us in June!