WHERE:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Edgewood College, Madison Become a part of the youth that lead us! This week-long forum is for high school students with disabilities who want to learn more about leadership,\u00a0self-advocacy skills, and career awareness. Do you want to:<\/p>\n Please apply \u2013 you\u2019ll have the time of your life<\/strong>! 25 students with disabilities will be chosen from around the state. 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<\/a>The Wisconsin Youth Leadership Forum (YLF) is a week-long leadership training and career awareness program for high school sophomores, juniors and seniors with disabilities.\r\n\r\nBeing selected to attend the YLF is a distinct honor that you can be very proud of. Please take the time to apply - you'll have the time of your life<\/strong>!\r\n\r\nYLF is June 16 - 21, 2019 on the Edgewood College campus in Madison, WI.\r\nYLF is for:<\/h2>\r\n
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Interested in working at the YLF?<\/h2>\r\nIf you'd like to spend a week working with some awesome and eager young adults, complete the application below and return it to Jennifer Neugart at the contact info above.\u00a0 The YLF needs\u00a0Small Group Facilitators, Counselors and Peer Mentors.\u00a0 Please review the following job descriptions to determine which role(s) you are interested in and qualified for.\u00a0 YLF staff are typically young adults who have been through the program when they were in high school or who have personal experiences with disability and going to work, school, college, advocating for oneself, etc.\r\n\r\nApplication Deadline is March 27, 2019<\/strong>\r\n\r\n2019 YLF Staff Application<\/a>\r\n\r\n2019 YLF Position Descriptions<\/a>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-322","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16788,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322\/revisions\/16788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}