Youth Programs

The Youth Leadership Forum

We are looking for Future Community Leaders!

This forum is an exciting, fun, educational, five-day vocational awareness program for high school students with disabilities in California.

Young people with disabilities have more opportunities and more challenges than at any other time in our nation's history. With the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), they have unprecedented opportunities to fully develop as constructive, contributing members of our society. However, many need encouragement and information about resources to develop as leaders in their communities. Our forum enables them to learn from each other and from successful adults with disabilities who are recognized leaders and role models. Such a forum benefits not only the participants, but all young people with disabilities, our communities in general, and the adults who assist in producing the forum.

For more information about
The California Youth Leadership Forum, click here.

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Hal Connolly Scholar-Athlete Award Scholarship

This scholarship provides supplemental financial assistance to potential freshman college students with disabilities who have participated in varsity level athletics. Through this scholarship we encourage the academic success of the award recipients and recognize how participation in athletics is valuable to career choices in life.

For more information about
The Hal Connolly Scholar-Athlete Scholarship Award, click here.

 

 

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