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Presentation on youth ministry

• Post author By Dan Harper
• Post date May 10, 2015

Presentation for youth ministry town hall meeting, Sunday, May 10, 10:30 and 12:15.

First, some definitions:

When I talk about “youth,” I mean persons in early and mid-adolescence. In our culture this usually means persons in middle school, typically in puberty and/or early adolescence — and persons in high school, typically in mid-adolescence.

When I talk about “ministry,” I mean that which we do here at UUCPA: doing the work of transforming ourselves, transforming each other, and transforming the world. And of course I mean to imply that such transformation is for the better!

Next, I’d like to review the state of youth ministry at UUCPA:

Here at UUCPA, we have a long history of boom/bust youth ministry. By this I mean that there will be an active high school youth group for a few years, then for a few years there will be no youth group, then we’ll repeat the cycle. I have heard of more than one instance of siblings in UUCPA, one of whom got to attend a robust high school youth group, and the other of whom did not. A similar pattern seems to prevail with our middle school youth.

This history goes back to about 1970. In the 1960s, UUCPA had a high school youth group with some 50 members, as well as a good-sized junior youth group. Then around 1970, the Baby Boom ended, and the number of youth began to drop. What appears to have happened is that our youth program never adapted to this new smaller size, so ever since the late 1970s we have seen a boom/bust cycle, with high school youth groups ranging between zero and ten youth.

That’s the history. What’s going on now?

When I arrived at UUCPA in 2009, we had a high school youth group with an average attendance of about ten, and for middle schoolers we had an every-other-year OWL sexuality education program, plus a Sunday school class that averaged about 8 young people. We had a drop-off in attendance that began in fifth grade, and increased as kids got older. Quite a few families left UUCPA entirely when their child entered high school.

Since then, the CYRE Committee and other volunteers and I have worked to stop that drop-off in attendance, and to hold on to families (not just youth, but whole families) when youth entered high school. We have done a pretty good job, such that in the past two years we have had to double the size of our youth programs to accommodate increased attendance.

Some of you may ask: What about the youth programs offered by the district, that is, by the northern California UU congregations? What’s their role in all this? We used to require teens in our Coming of Age program to attend the district Coming of Age program, but we stopped requiring that when our teens came back saying the district program felt like (and I paraphrase) not worth their time. There is also a district program of so-called “cons,” or district youth conventions, with about four cons a year and a week-long summer camp for high school, and two or three cons for middle school. A small number of our youth have found these programs to be excellent, a few others have not. There have been some recent developments in this program: the high school con program, after receiving criticism on safety procedures from the district staff and Board, decided to remove itself from the district umbrella, and set itself up as an independent entity; this just happened, so it’s hard to know how things will change. But for me the real point is that no district program was ever designed to offer total ministry support to our teens; and I feel we at UUCPA cannot abdicate our responsibility for our youth by shunting our youth off to district programs.

Let’s turn now to the question of programming, that is, the activities and programs that are offered for youth. I’ve been doing Unitarian Universalist youth ministry for two decades now. I feel that what we are seeing now is a new generation of young people, a generation that is significantly different from what I saw twenty years ago. Most importantly, the current generation is far more diverse; UU youth ministry used to mean upper middle class white kids, and that’s no longer no longer the case. Second of all, the current generation of young people tends to be less openly rebellious (on average) and more tolerant of differences; we are no longer in the 1960s youth rebellion. Third, I think we have finally realized that we cannot do youth ministry without providing ministry for the entire family of youth — our old approach was to provide programs aimed solely at youth while ignoring parents, but we have finally realized that we need to support whole families.

What I’m seeing is that the old model of youth ministry is showing its age. The old model of youth ministry can be summed up as follows: Create a group that’s just for youth, with a couple of hip young charismatic adults to hand out with the teens. Ground the program on a philosophy of “youth empowerment,” which assumes that youth are an oppressed class who need to be separated from adults. Have programming which emphasizes deep sharing of personal values using exercises derived from 1960s feminism and the 1970s human encounter movement. This old model worked very well in 1994, when I started doing UU youth ministry; this model still work extremely well for some white upper middle class kids; but I believe times have changed, and the old model is creaking at the joints. I’m now of the opinion that our UU youth ministry needs to grow and evolve to keep up with the times. And I think UUCPA’s youth programs are currently evolving to meet the changing ministry needs of a diverse youth population.

One thing we are doing is increasing the number and diversity of our youth programs, to meet diverse needs. We have a high school youth group for gr. 9-12. We have a Coming of Age program for gr. 8-9. We now offer OWL sexuality education for gr. 7-9 every year instead of every other year. We now have two very different Sunday school classes for gr. 6-8, to accommodate more youth and more diverse interests. We are beginning to see more middle schoolers in our Navigators scouting program. We now offer service trips for teens, and this summer we will have two service trips, one in-state, and one to Central America. We keep adding opportunities for youth to do ministry themselves within UUCPA, including serving as Sunday school teachers and worship associates. We have a few youth who have served on committees and on our Board of Trustees, which I think of partly as developing new leaders for the nonprofit world. We offer one or two discussion groups for parents of teens, none of which has been particularly popular, but we’re slowly learning what might work for parents. And with all this, we seem to have doubled the number of middle school and high school youth enrolled in our program in the last few years.

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The question that I’m confronting, as your minister of religions education, is this: — What can we realistically do to meet the evolving needs of all these teens and their families?

Let me review things we already know:

a. Given that we have had to double the number of youth programs, we know that teens and their families generally like UUCPA and want to be here.

b. We do not currently serve all UUCPA teens equally well; I’d guess a quarter of our teens drift away (which is way better than the three quarters that used to drift away).

c. In an increasingly diverse world, a one-size-fits-all youth group no longer works.

d. We now have several compelling programs or ministries or opportunities for teens, including youth group, service trips, sexuality education, and leadership opportunities.

e. We could easily add additional youth ministries, as I’m seeing interest in additional youth programming that we don’t yet have, including sexuality education for high school teens, introductions to spiritual practices, more short-term programs about what it means to be a UU, outdoors adventure (how appropriate in a congregation of environmentalists!), a separate Senior Navigators scouting program for middle schoolers, etc.

f. We could do better at serving whole families. Families are trying to figure out what it means to be spiritual in a post-Christian world, and what it means to be spiritual in a world where almost everything can be bought and sold. They are trying to figure out what are appropriate boundaries, in a world of changing boundaries and norms.

g. And hovering in the background is always the specter of teen mental health. We all wonder how we can prevent risky behaviors like unprotected sex, substance abuse, and self-harm.

So back to the question — how much can we realistically take on? Which raises the question — what are the constraints on expanding our ministry with families with teens? I can think of at least three constraints.

(1) Space. Our youth program is already affecting other parts of UUCPA. With a second middle school class meeting in the library during the 9:30 service, we now have no place for any other meetings during that time. With two and sometimes three youth programs meeting on Sunday evening, we cut down on the number of rooms we can rent out to recitals, which provide much-needed income. If we increase our programs, we will affect even more UUCPA groups, and eat into rental income even more.

(2) Personnel. We have grown quickly, and we still don’t have enough adults who want to devote their volunteer hours to adolescent health and spiritual well-being. Most of our youth programs are understaffed. Some of our current volunteers tell me they are feeling burned out. This is a major constraint.

Let me say a word about adults who do ministry with youth. There’s this image people have that a youth advisor has to be hip, young, and charismatic. Not true. Charisma and youth do not automatically qualify someone to volunteer with teens. In fact, charismatic youth leaders are often poor team players, which usually leads to burn out. Another problem is that sexual predators tend to be charismatic, which unfortunately makes me wary of charisma in youth leaders.

So here’s what I look for in adults who volunteer directly with youth. Good youth leaders are: (a) team players; (b) reliable and trustworthy; (c) able to see youth ministry as both enjoyable and a way to make the world better; and (d) good youth leaders have strong connections with other adults at UUCPA so that we can weave youth into the fabric of life here. Our best youth volunteers at UUCPA have been parents, either empty-nesters, or those with younger kids anticipating what it will be like to have adolescents of their own.

Beyond youth advisors, and equally importantly, we need adults who can contribute by doing logistics work that does not require direct contact with youth. This role can be the best place for adults who don’t really like adolescents, who don’t have time, and/or are working through their own personal issues around things like sexuality and spirituality.

(3) The third constraint on growing our youth program is a question: What does the congregation really want? Over the last few years, I have been pushing pretty hard to expand youth ministry at UUCPA, to the point where I’ve been kind of annoying. I make no apologies for being annoying, as I believe passionately in supporting adolescent health and spirituality, and I believe I did the right thing in pointing out to you an array of possibilities to expand our ministry to and with teens. But I’ve accomplished that, and now it’s up to you, the congregation, to decide where to go from here. So this is the biggest constraint of all — what your priorities are.

At one extreme, this congregation could adopt adolescent health and spirituality, and support of teen families, as top priority. UUCPA could set an example in the community as an organization that treats teens as ends in themselves, persons with inherent dignity and respect. UUCPA could say that teens are more than partially-formed beings that must get into Stanford or Harvard in order to have true worth. UUCPA could be a presence to support teens and their families into becoming more fully human.

At the other extreme, it would be perfectly fine to ease our way back to where we were five years ago, when youth ministry was a low priority, with one small middle school class, biannual OWL program, and a small high school youth group (mind you, we would need to fix the boom/bust cycle of the youth group, but that’s a solvable problem). This would be more than adequate, because here in Silicon Valley there are a wealth of programs for youth and their families. We have limited time and energy, and it would be perfectly fine for us to set other priorities for this congregation — homelessness, affordable housing, anti-racism and anti-oppression work, climate justice, fair elections.

Mind you, this is not an either/or situation. This is an evolving situation. We have families in our congregations with lots of needs. And the world around us has even more needs. Which needs shall we prioritize? This is what the congregation has to decide for itself. And, honestly, the way we will know what has been decided is not by what we say here today. We will know what the congregation decides by watching where people decide to put their volunteer time, and whether they decide to devote their charitable donations to UUCPA — and by watching where lay leadership emerges. The reality is that if a core group of lay people decide to take leadership, they could sway the rest of the congregation to follow.

At this point, I think I really should expose my own biases, and say out loud my personal vision for youth ministry. Which I am not sure is entirely realistic.

We now have an enrollment of about 65 youth in the combined middle school and high school programs, and about 65 children in the younger grades, for a total enrollment of 130.

In my vision, we’d double that in about five years. That would give us children’s Sunday school at both services, plus maybe 4 youth programs meeting every Sunday evening. The youth programs would include a traditional youth group; a junior youth group; OWL sexuality education classes for middle and high school; youth support groups similar to our adult men’s and women’s groups; service trips; classes in a variety of topics for middle and high school; formalized leadership opportunities for teens in UUCPA committees; opportunities to serve as worship associates and Sunday school teachers; at least one domestic and one foreign service trip per year, plus multigenerational service opportunities within our own immediate community; active voting and pledging teen members of UUCPA; another Navigators scouting group aimed at middle school; an outing club for high schoolers to go on outdoor adventures; multiple parent support and discussion groups; more UUCPA summer programming aimed at youth; etc.

In my vision for the future, our programs for youth and their parents would support 125 teens and over 200 parents. The programs would provide support to families trying to raise healthy, ethical, and spiritually grounded teens who are deeply rooted in the practices of democratic institutions. We would, in fact, be raising the next generation of spiritually-grounded and humane social justice activists — young people who are ready to serve on the boards of nonprofit institutions, ready to speak out publicly against injustice and untruth, ready to take their place in the work of transforming the world — first by our side, then out in front leading the way.

But that’s only my vision, that is not your vision. What really matters is your vision. And I’m good either way — I really want to know what your priorities are.

This concludes the formal presentation. Now I’d like to throw things open. What questions do you have?

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Youth Culture Anna McGovern Dana Kehoe

Getting to Know You… Interest inventories help teachers get to know their students. This information is critical in gaining students attention and building community in the classroom.

What is Youth Culture • Youth Culture – Young adults (a generational unit) considered as a cultural class or subculture. • Young adulthood, comprising more than 30 million in the United States, is typically defined as ages 18 to 22 or 18 to 25. • Why is youth culture important to K-12 educators?

Generation Y • Generation Y – Born between 1978 and 1990. • This is a generation defined by technology and globalization. • Tulgan (2009) refers to Gen. Y as “Generation X on fast forward with self-esteem on steroids” • Perhaps the most tolerant generation in history • Narcissistic • AKA • The Peter Pan Generation • The Boomerang generation • The Net Generation • The Echo Boomers

Generation Z • Generation Z – Born between 1991 and 2000. • This generation shares technology with Generation Z but has grown up in a much more high tech world. • Have grown up with social media and are used to instant gratification. • Narcissistic. • http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-03-16-pinsky-quiz_N.htm

Beloit College Mindset List • http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J4HJ6EHb3CI • The Beloit College mindset list was created by teachers at the college as a reminder to faculty to be aware of dated references, and quickly became a catalog of the rapidly changing worldview of each new generation.

Our Students Mindset List • Think of three things that would be on our elementary students’ mindset list. These would be students born from 2002 on. • For example: The Twin Towers have never stood in Manhattan. • (Crazy, Right?!)

Implications for teaching: • The common theme in both generations is technology. As teachers, we must teach our students not only how to use the new technology out there but how to use it safely. • 93% of teens (12-17) go online • 73% of teens have (12-17) have profiles on social networking sites • http://arquiteturadeinformacao.com/2012/03/09/o-lado-cruel-das-redes-sociais/ • www.cybersmart.org

Adolescence • Approximately ages 13 through 18. • A very challenging time in the life of an individual and the family. • Emancipation from the primary family unit is the central task of the adolescent.

From Parents to Peers • During this time the individual shifts emotional ties from parents to peers. • Parents become more concerned with their child’s peers. • The attitude of the parents may contribute to alienation. • Why?

High risk behaviors often initiated during adolescence: • Substance Abuse • Sexual Behaviors • Suicide • Self-Injury • Bullying • Violence • Gangs

Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll • According to the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey conducted in 2011: • Nationwide, 47.4% of students had ever had sexual intercourse. • 49.2% of males and females 45.6% students in high school have had sexual intercourse. • 66.9% Black Males and 53.0% Hispanic Males in high school are sexually active as well as 53.6% of Black females and 43.9% Hispanic females. • According to the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey conducted in 2011: • Nationwide, 39.9% of students had used marijuana one or more times during their life. • Overall, the prevalence of having ever used marijuana was higher among male (42.5%) than female (37.2%) students; higher among white male (40.3%), black male (48.5%), and Hispanic male (45.0%) than all females.

Drug use in adolescence • Adults who first used drugs at a younger age were more likely to be classified with illicit drug dependence or abuse than adults who initiated use at an older age. • For example, among adults aged 18 or older who first tried marijuana at age 14 or younger, 13.0 percent were classified with illicit drug dependence or abuse compared with only 2.8 percent of adults who had first used marijuana at age 18 or • Teens who first used marijuana before age 17 were shown to have smaller brains and to be physically smaller in height and weight than teens who first used marijuana after age 17. Exposure to marijuana and other drugs at certain critical periods, such as early adolescence, may alter normal patterns of development.

D.A.R.E.(Drug Abuse Resistance Education) • This year millions of school children around the world will benefit from D.A.R.E.), the highly acclaimed program that gives kids the skills they need to avoid involvement in drugs, gangs, and violence. • D.A.R.E. was founded in 1983 in Los Angeles and has proven so successful that it is now being implemented in 75 percent of our nation's school districts and in more than 43 countries around the world.D.A.R.E. is a police officer-led series of classroom lessons that teaches children from kindergarten through 12th grade how to resist peer pressure and live productive drug and violence-free lives.

Bullying • Bullying may involve teasing, taunting, verbal abuse, shoving, hitting, spreading rumors, or deliberately excluding someone. • Bullying by peers can have serious long-term consequences for young children. It takes a toll on both physical and mental health. An estimated 20% of high school students reported being bullied on school property in 2009, with a higher prevalence among females than males. (CDC, 2010g).

Bullying and Social Media • Phoebe Prince and her suicide: drew international media attention and put the focus on bullying in American schools. • 15-year old girl who emigrated from Ireland to Massachusetts brutally bullied in person and by means of social media in 2009.

Emotional Literacy • EMOTIONAL LITERACY is the ability to recognize, understand and appropriately express our emotions. Just as verbal literacy is the basic building-block for reading and writing, emotional literacy is the basis for perceiving and communicating emotions. Becoming emotionally literate is learning the alphabet, grammar and vocabulary of our emotional lives.

Childhood • Childhood is the time when an individual begins school, when he or she is socialized and exposed to cultures other than that of the home, family, and neighborhood. • Faced with factors such as: • Social class and poverty • Children, Ethnic Awareness, and Prejudice • Child Abuse • Childhood Obesity

Childhood • Childhood obesity has tripled in the past 30 years. • Obese youth are more likely to have risk factors for cardiovascular disease, such as high cholesterol or high blood pressure. • 1 in 7 low- income, PRESCHOOL age children is obese. • Children are not getting adequate exercise. • www.myplate.gov • www.letsmove.gov • http://www.nflrush.com/play60/ • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKSL3Kkl-RM&feature=related

Respect for All Week • For the 2011-2012 school year, the NYC Department of Education has designated February 13-17, 2012 as RFA Week in all NYC public schools. • During this week, schools will have opportunities to highlight and build upon ongoing diversity programs and curriculum-based instruction.  • Schools will also have opportunities to embark upon new initiatives that promote respect for diversity and engage students in meaningful lessons and/or other activities that focus on preventing bias-based harassment, intimidation and/or bullying.

Respect for all Week Activities • http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/OSYD/RespectForAllWeek/rfaweek2011_lehmanhs.htm • http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/OSYD/RespectForAllWeek/default.htm

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One of the most critical skills for youth advocates is public speaking and presenting. These skills are used in providing educational presentations, giving a press conference, performing a skit, recording a radio PSA, or providing testimony at a legislative hearing.

Presentation Skills is a highly interactive workshop taught by the students of Dover Youth to Youth. It is generally provided to communities that are trying to develop the capacity of their youth advocates and Dover Youth to Youth uses these techniques constantly to develop the skills of our members as well.

In this training, we teach presentation skills by focusing on 4 core skill areas: Speed control, volume control, animation of voice, and animation of body.  We have found that improving these 4 areas can improve anyone’s ability and confidence as a speaker.

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This lesson can be taught to youth audiences or can be taught to adults who wish to do this kind of work with youth.  The workshop can be done as a 45 minute presentation where audience members are selected to demonstrate the 4 skill areas that the student presenters emphasize.  However, it is more effective as a two-hour workshop where attendees have the opportunity to break up into groups to practice the skills discussed in the presentation, using samples of media created by Dover Youth to Youth.

To request a presentation of Presentation Skills for Youth Advocates by Dover Youth to Youth go to How to Schedule Us in the Resources section of this web site.

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How do we keep kids off drugs? Better conversations & more education, earlier | CivicCon

When the son of a family friend died of an overdose, David Mage e was brought in to scare the young man's friends straight and convince them to stop using drugs.

It didn't work, of course.

"You know what his friends did the same night their friend died? In their grief, they bought more of the pills from the same place that their friend had bought a pill and died," Magee recalled. "Because they didn't know what to do but to feed their addiction and self medicate through it."

Still, speaking to a CivicCon crowd at the Brownsville Community Center on Tuesday night, Magee's message wasn't one of hopelessness or inevitability or fear. Quite the opposite, his message was that we can help youth overcome substance misuse and mental health struggles – and help them find and keep the joy in their lives.

More from Magee: CivicCon live: Pensacola kids are struggling with mental health, addiction. Learn how to help

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The key, he said, is to change how we communicate with and educate our youth about drugs and mental health.

Magee created the The William Magee Institute for Student Wellbeing at The University of Mississippi after his son William died of an accidental drug overdose. He has traveled the country addressing students and parents about mental health and substance misuse challenges and solutions.

"As I got deeply into this work, I began to realize that about 40% of our students on college campuses are struggling with eating disorders or substances," Magee said. "And about 80% of that 40% has been deeply involved since early in high school and a lot of times middle school, just like my son William."

Magee said William had his first alcoholic drink in seventh grade and had begun using marijuana regularly around ninth grade. Magee's other son, Hudson, had his first alcoholic drink in fifth grade and was regularly using marijuana and alcohol by the 10th grade. His daughter, Mary Halley, developed an eating disorder in high school.

None of the scenarios are uncommon.

Citing data from the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy, Magee reported:

• 44% of teens have at least one friend who abuses painkillers
• 25% of teens take prescription drugs not prescribed to them
• 40% of teens believe prescription drugs are safer than street drugs
• 60% of overdose deaths are caused by prescription painkillers

"When we talk about 15 Floridians dying a day from fentanyl overdose, it's shocking," Magee said. "But when I tell you that there's tens of thousands walking around at this very moment with fentanyl in their system that aren't dead, that's why it's a little hard to just shock everybody out of this."

Compounding the problem is the fact that American youth are in a mental health crisis.

According to federal data , the number of children and adolescents with anxiety and depression has risen nearly 30% in recent years. Between 2011 and 2021, the number of teens and young adults with depression more than doubled. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2021, 42% of high school students reported experiencing persistent feelings of sadness, including 57% of girls and 69% of LGBQ+ students, and nearly one in three high school girls reported having seriously considered suicide.

"When we grew up, here's what they told us about substance misuse among young people: peer pressure. That's not it anymore. A lot of times young people are doing substances alone in their room and they're hiding and they're ashamed of it. And it's really not about peer pressure anymore. It's not. It's about self medication."

As an example, he said the majority of young people he interacts with say they use marijuana to help alleviate anxiety.

"I'm like, 'Have you seen the studies on that?' Because for 50% of the people – depending on their personality type and the strain they're using – that marijuana not only doesn't abate your anxiety, it greatly inflates it," Magee said. "We just have to teach that in school, we don't have to tell them don't do drugs. Why don't we show fifth-graders this? We just need to teach them the facts and ask them questions about what they want, 'Who do you want to be?' And then they begin to find their way."

How we can help youth battle addiction and mental health troubles

This month, Magee released his newest book, " Things Have Changed: What Every Parent (and Educator) Should Know About the Student Mental Health and Substance Misuse Crisis ."

The book is intended to provide a clear road map for navigating the many struggles modern students face such as anxiety, depression, addiction, eating disorders, loneliness and the pressures of social media.

Magee said through The William Magee Institute for Student Wellbeing, "We are really beginning to dig in with some schools that want to be pilot schools to figure out how do we create the curriculum that we can teach in school so we can teach students not just about algebra, but about their mind, about how they may have strange feelings."

Magee expressed that by helping students understand that their feelings, their worries about the future and their bodies and their relationships are all normal things that everyone goes through, we can help them find healthier ways to manage those feelings.

"We must teach them, and the studies show that if we do you will not save everyone, but you can reach a staggering number and reduce the incidences of what will become later dangerous behavior," Magee said. "Because the studies show that if you merely delay substance use among young people, their odds of later becoming addicted to fentanyl or alcohol or any substance drops precipitously."

Magee recommends that parents and grandparents get in the habit of asking youth open-ended questions to help them identify their problems and be a part of the solutions.

In a list of concrete steps families can take to help tackle these issues, Magee also recommended sharing the following lessons with youth:

• Value sleep like the air youth breathe. Magee noted youth are sleeping less, and many of the symptoms of sleep deprivation mirror attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
• Activities like walking and running send invigorating blood though the body.
• Remember that you are not alone, mental health challenges are common.
• Ask for help, as counseling earlier and more often makes a difference.
• Identify your local drug dealer, who may often take the form of a classmate, teammate, frat brother or even a close friend or relative.
• Be intentional about social media and do not let it own you.
• Find ways to earn what you get, find ways to serve and believe in something greater than yourself.
• Remember that less substance use is an investment in your "joy."

That last one is particularly important.

Magee noted when he visits schools he'll ask students questions like 'who likes football' or 'who eats pizza on Sunday night,' and he'll get somewhere between a third and three-quarters of the room to raise their hands.

But when he asks, "how many of you want joy?", 100% of the hands go up.

Scaring students straight doesn't work, but showing them there is hope does.

"They all want joy. All of us humans, actually, that's the thing that keeps us waking up and breathing," Magee said. "And sometimes when we feel uncomfortable or not sure why we're doing what, we keep moving (because) all humans want joy. Substances steal joy, untreated mental health steals joy. And when we take that message to students, we see an incredible response rate."

More information about Magee, his work and his books is available at daviddmagee.com .

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Magee's presentation was part of CivicCon, a partnership with the News Journal to help empower citizens to better their communities through smart planning and civic conversation.

The next CivicCon event will be a presentation on the results of the 2023 Quality of Life Survey Oct. 17 at The REX Theatre, 18. N. Palafox St.

More information about CivicCon, as well as stories and videos featuring previous speakers, is available at  pnj.com/civiccon .

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Wirral students talk their way through to contest's national final

STUDENTS from a Wirral school talked their way through to the national final of competition organised by Rotary Club of Birkenhead. 

Aaron, Oliver and Jack from Birkenhead School took on a team from Wirral Grammar School for Boys in the 'Youth Speaks' contest.

Their win sees them through to the national event being held in Norwich on April 21.

The teams from Birkenhead School and Wirral Grammar School for Boys presented a wide range subjects, such as "Why the four-day working week is the answer for the modern workforce," “Should supersonic commercial aircraft be reintroduced”, “Why a cashless society is inevitable and beneficial for modern society” and "This house believes that the government should allocate more funding to parks and green spaces.”

Birkenhead Rotary Club has presented youth speaks competitions for many years, and organisers have always been so impressed by the standard of the debates presented by the young pupils. The event was hosted by Wirral Grammar School for Boys.

Mayor of Wirral, councillor Jerry Williams, praised the efforts of pupils from both schools.

The lead Rotarian, Ray Dent, said: "This competition challenges the pupils public speaking abilities, to perform, persuade and entertain an audience with their knowledge of a topic.

"It really does help build self-confidence and develop research and presentation skills."

Entrants take part in the Intermediate section with ages between 11 and 13 or the Senior category aged between 14 and 17.

The Intermediate Wirral Grammar School for Boys team went through as far as the regional final, being warmly praised by Club President Barbara Sinclair for their presentation.