Two Youth will attend National UDETC Leadership Conferece
Through a partnership between the Wheatland County Sheriff’s Office and Horizon’s , there will be two youth representatives at this year’s 10th National UDETC Leadership Conference. The conference offers an adult track and a youth track. The Sheriff’s Office sends two adult representatives each year as part of an Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws grant. The Sheriff’s Office was only going to be able to send one youth to this year’s event, but through the partnership, now the community will benefit from two attending. This year’s conference is being held in Nashville, Tennessee.
The two youth will participate in networking and educational opportunities. The youth track is centered around developing and maintaining youth run programs to help reduce underage drinking. The youth are given assignments and topics to speak on. The program assists in developing youth in the areas of public speaking and leadership. This aids a community by providing training to already strong youth in successful ways of implementing programs. The first youth networking event will be on Wednesday, August 20th, this event will introduce the youth participants to what is expected of them, how the conference is organized and a general social event. Over the next three days, the youth will be kept busy from nine-o’clock in the morning until nine-o’clock at night. The information that is crammed into these days can help leaders of tomorrow, be leaders today.