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CNMI students join 18th Youth for Youth Conference in Guam
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Posted on Apr 18 2008
CNMI’s Teen Talk Youth Group flew to Guam Thursday to take part in the 18th Annual Youth For Youth Conference.
The conference, which will take place the entire weekend at the Hyatt Regency Guam, aims to foster effective leadership and goal-setting skills.
According to adult registration chair Athena Duenas, students will also learn how to use powerful influence and creativity to turn peer pressure from a negative into a positive.
The conference will also provide clear messages to teens saying that it is their responsibility as teens to say to “no” to drugs, tobacco, violence and other forms of negative behavior.
Duenas said that the 2007 Youth For Youth Conference was, by “many accounts, a huge success.”
Over 400 middle and high school students from CNMI, Guam, Rota, Palau and other neighboring Micronesian islands attended last year’s annual conference.
The Youth For Youth LIVE organization is a community-based non-profit organization teaching youth to use their creativity to ward off negative peer pressure behavior.
Sharleen Crisostimo, CNMI Teen Talk adviser and chaperone to this year’s conference, said, “There has been so many things that my youth group has done over the years.”
Last month, the CNMI Teen Talk organized a Youth Summit focusing on the importance of youth development and empowerment.
