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Steering Committee
The Youth Steering Committee is composed of 11 persons youth and emerging leaders, and was formed within the first five months of the project. Each state partner and the Arc will have a representative on the steering committee, although in the first nine months those representatives will be adults who will transition when a youth replacement is identified. A representative will also be reserved for a member of the National Youth Leadership Network. The remaining six members will be recruited through the networks of IEL, The Arc, and others discussed earlier. All youth and emerging leader committee members will meet the definition of a person with a developmental disability under federal law, and it is anticipated that five will be youth and six will be emerging leaders as defined in the grant solicitation. All participants will have undergone some form of leadership training for youth with disabilities and will become familiar with basic disability civil rights concepts.
The Steering Committee will meet quarterly via teleconference. Initially, the Steering Committee will be oriented to the project framework, ie. Guideposts for Success and the five areas of youth development. Each participant will be expected to undertake, learn, and grow from the activities of the areas of youth development, as well as to take on a mentoring role with members of the State Youth Councils. Some of the Steering Committee members will become trainers in the second and third years of the project and others will be presenters at conference and/or attend the national meeting required by ADD.
The members of the Steering Committee are (more to be added as our Partners appoint their representatives):
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