Youth Retention in a Confident Community

Youth retention and confident communities are inextricably linked. You cannot have one without the other. Roy delivers both a 90-minute keynote as well as a day-long workshop.

If you are concerned about:

• keeping your young people in your community
• a feeling of general apathy in your community
• an “Old Boy’s Club” in your community that excludes young people
• lack of success in attracting young people to your community

Then "Youth Retention in a Confident Community" is your answer.

Changed attitudes change communities

Roy delivers both a 90 minute keynote as well as a day-long workshop.

During a very successful six-community speaking tour in Saskatchewan, Roy Prevost delivered an inspiring 90-minute keynote entitled “Creating Confident Communities” that set these towns and cities on a new path of reaching out to their youth – and renewing their community vitality.

THE KEYNOTE

This no-nonsense 90-minute attitude session tackles key issues, head on, such as:

• The reality about youth retention and the complexity of the issue.
• Confronting the general apathy in your community by invoking his trademarked attitude adjusting question, “What lottery have we won?
• The attitude of the X, Y, and net generation and what motivates them.
• What will keep them and/or bring them back to your community?
• The myth that youth have to “pay their dues” before they are invited into the community projects.
• The “Old Boys Club” and how irrelevant – and damaging -- it can be.
• The need to include youth in community projects allowing them to create a “Footprint” in the community.
• The importance of proactively selling the community to your young people and planting the seeds for the future. No planting, no harvest, no seed for future growth.

THE WORKSHOP

Roy’s one-day follow up workshop creates Your Action Plan

In Roy’s experience, the biggest obstacle to any project is the move to action based on the wise saying, “The road to !@#%^&* is paved with good intentions”. So as a follow up to his keynote address, Roy has created a one-day workshop that will move your community to action based on the points covered in the keynote.

This 6-hour, day-long workshop will cover:

• Assembling all community stakeholders in the community, including community leaders, successful business owners, community activists and students.
• Facilitating a brainstorming session to identify the virtues and potentials of the community.
• Facilitating a brainstorming session to create a positive upbeat message to deliver to youth groups.
• Developing a strategy to sell the community in different events, i.e. job fairs.
• Facilitating a dialogue between young people and adults on how they can work together to help create that “Youth” imprint in the community.
• Identifying a strategy on how to keep in touch with young people who inevitably leave for university and would probably contemplate returning if they were invited
• Creating an action plan with deadlines to move the process forward.

It’s time to reach out to your young people. To include them. To engage them in community projects. And to provide a positive experience so that they will seriously consider returning when they have young families!

To find out more and to arrange a customized workshop in your community please contact Roy here.

Sincerely,
Roy Prevost