Hello, Steven –
Thank you for writing us at the Community Tool Box. The challenge you describe is an important one, and of course we wish you the best in developing a program that will fit the needs of your youth.
Unfortunately, we are not in a position to provide detailed consultation on the development of your program. We would actually enjoy having a go at it, but we simply have limited resource capability of our own.
In a brief search, we did uncover a few general sources that might be of interest to you; these are noted below.
http://www.aspira.org/sites/default/files/Facilitator%27s%20Guide%202012-V3.pdf
https://extension.purdue.edu/4h/Documents/Volunteer%20Resources/Past%20Congress%20Le sson%20Plans/How%20to%20Start%20a%20Youth%20Leaders
https://www.health.ny.gov/community/youth/development/docs/jphmp_s051-s059.pdf
www.youthonboard.org
Beyond that, what we can recommend at this point, though, is to keep looking online for program models you can borrow from or adapt. Even though it sounds like you have done some searching already, we think continuing that effort is likely to be worth your time, for creating a leadership curriculum from scratch is not the easiest of jobs. Somewhere out there there’s likely to be a model program you can borrow from or adapt, even though we are not yet specifically aware of one.
We hope this much may be helpful to you. Thanks again for writing to us, and we wish you every possible success.
