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Youth empowerment workshop is Monday

Healthy children become healthy adults. Research shows that children who experience positive experiences are more likely to make healthy choices and avoid high-risk behaviors as teenagers and adults.

Forty students and adults from Marion County will participate in a one-day training session Monday at Marion City Building basement to discuss youth involvement.

Presented by Communities in Schools of Marion County, Marion County school districts, the Self-Help Network of Kansas, and the Search Institute, the workshop will focus on possibilities and importance of of youth involvement in school.

The objectives of the event will be to learn about youth involvement, strategies for building strong student and adult partnerships, creating youth-friendly and strength-based opportunities, and ensuring successful and ongoing student involvement.

This training developed from an identified need by members of the Marion County Youth Team in an effort to increase meaningful youth input into decisions and policies that affect them in school and government systems.

The training will be facilitated by Richard Goll of Vision Training Associates. Assisting Goll will be a high school-age colleague.

Goll has worked in the substance abuse treatment and prevention field for more than 30 years, and was responsible for services in Maine, New York, and Virginia.

He co-founded the Virginia Association of Drug and Alcohol Programs, and was instrumental in the development of the original certification process for Virginia's substance abuse counselors.

He also served on a White House Commission, studying national policy governing substance abuse services for youth.

Currently Goll speaks and trains across the country, consulting with school districts, city governments, foundations, and commission.

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