Week 8 at the Internship

This has to have been the week I had been waiting for during my entire internship. My supervisor sent me to Anytown Summer Leadership Program, to be an advisor at the Anytown Camp Site in Prescott, AZ. Anytown provides youth leadership development programs that focus on diversity awareness, social justice, and personal empowerment. Anytown recognizes that when our youth are empowered they become more inclusive, more understanding, and more active in fostering these ideals in their peers and within their communities Anytown Arizona strives to meet this need by providing a structure and venue in which participants can recognize, investigate, and tackle the social issues they face daily. Anytowns program offer a safe space and a series of workshops based in experiential learning with the objective of supporting leaders who create change in their schools, organizations, and communities. Sara sent me to this 7 day camp because in October after my internship is completed she would like me to stay on board with the City of Chandler to plan, coordinate and co-direct Chandler's Unitown diversity and leadership camp. Attending this summer camp for a week will provide me with the right tools and resources needed to put on a successful camp. During the week of July 17-24, 55 teens between the ages of 14-18 came from all over the state of Arizona to go through a series of large group workshops and small discussion group to work on ways for them to become advocates of tolerance and to stand up against bias attitudes and behaviors. With out giving away too much details about this camp, because Anytown is the type of camp you have to go and experience versus someone telling you all that happens. After being at that camp for a week I strongly feel that statement stands true. This was an eye-opening and life changing experience and I feel so fortunate I was about to attend and be apart of Anytown. Now I am prepared to start putting together Chandler's Unitown Camp.