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=Mission Statement (Youth Group)=

The mission of the Youth Group is to connect Machar teens with each other through communal gatherings, social justice activities, and leadership training. We aim to create role models for the younger students, establishing a self-perpetuating cycle of learners and teachers. We emphasize inclusiveness, sharing, and creativity. Our goal is to instill a feeling of pride, joy, and responsibility in being a secular humanistic Jew within the Machar community and the larger world.

Goals:

 * Bring teens back to Machar
 * Make a more cohesive community
 * Create Machar role models for students

Methods:

 * Give teens more responsibility (make them vital to Machar)
 * Hire teen assistants for teachers
 * Assistants:
 * Classroom
 * Get supplies
 * Assist teacher
 * Help supervise
 * Tend to specific difficult kids
 * Teach lessons as well
 * Administrative
 * Help Debby
 * Set up chairs in a circle for music
 * Set up/ Clean up snack and other food tables
 * Set up/break down sound systems
 * Help manage library
 * Music
 * Encourage participation
 * Pass out books
 * Play instruments/ sing in band
 * teach songs
 * Choose songs
 * Make teens a part of planning events (Event planning could take place during shul or youth group events)
 * Havarot
 * Friday night services
 * School wide Tikun Olam trips
 * Implement social gatherings
 * Havarot for teens and entire school
 * Monthly social events for the teens
 * Ex. Bowling, concerts, camping trip, museums, social action, community involvement
 * Create a Tikun Olam curriculum
 * Combine Vanguard's events
 * Find community events to attend with the Youth Group
 * Make list serve or Facebook thread for Youth Group
 * In order to easily invite teens to events
 * have an open forum for discussion
 * keep in contact, update on lives, send out interesting links, etc.