Marquette and Alger Counties
Great Lakes Center for Youth Development (GLCYD) is committed to strengthening the youth environment in rural communities. GLCYD serves as an intermediary organization in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan providing youth information, technical assistance, and training to organizations we engage in improvement and learning. We work to build the capacity of our communities’ organizations – nonprofits and schools – so they can provide opportunities, services, and supports youth need to grow up healthy, competent, and caring. We promote a strength-based approach to youth development and strive for excellence in all we do.
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Eastern Upper Peninsula Youth Asset Summit
High school students in Luce, Chippewa, and Mackinac Counties want to help local young people make better decisions about alcohol, drugs and sex, and they are looking to adults around them to for help in gaining an understanding of what life is about as well as their place in the community.
Thirty-three young people gathered for the inaugural Eastern Upper Peninsula Youth Asset Summit at Lake Superior State University on September 24. During the summit, students reviewed the results of the “Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes and Behaviors” survey taken by 1,135 8th, 10th and 12th graders in Chippewa and Mackinac Counties in 2007 and by 271 6th, 8th, 10th and 12th graders in Luce County in 2006.
The survey measures the 40 Developmental Assets® identified by Search Institute® as strengths that all youth need for successful development.MORE
What Youth In Marquette and Alger Counties Want You to Know about Their Healthy Development.
Staff and youth volunteers from the Great Lakes Center for Youth Development are visiting local organizations with a presentation titled “Youth Priorities 08-09: What Youth In Marquette and Alger Counties Want You to Know about Their Healthy Development.”MORE
