Youth Leadership School
Begin a lifetime of conservative leadership for America. Take our
two-day intensive program to become an effective activist for your principles.
next Youth Leadership School countdown:
September 28, 2024
Mission
Kickstart your Leadership.
The Youth Leadership School (YLS) is the Leadership Institute’s flagship training. Often called “the boot camp of politics”, this two-day intensive course is an essential program for anyone who wants to achieve success in the political process.
By attending a Youth Leadership School, you receive the comprehensive campaign activism training to become an effective youth leader for candidates and causes of your choice.
Many students take their energy and momentum from their campus leadership and turn it into a political force on election campaigns.
The Youth Leadership School teaches you how to:
- Organize large numbers of volunteers and voters
- Increase the size and effectiveness of your group
- Motivate volunteers with exciting projects
- Host successful speaker events
- Organize high-profile speaker events and activism projects on campus
- Develop eye-catching signs and literature
- Gain favorable media coverage
Thanks to the generous support of Leadership Institute donors, full scholarships are available for a select number of students. To apply for a scholarship, please select “scholarship attendee registration,” when applying for this training.
Full scholarships cover your flight, lodging, meals, materials, and in some locations, an excursion after the training.
Your registration also includes a resume consultation to help your career advancement.
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Cultivating Conservative Catalysts
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
Cultivating Conservative Catalysts
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
Cultivating Conservative Catalysts
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
Cultivating Conservative Catalysts
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
- Acquire skills to use in political careers.
Agenda and Topics Covered - Days 1-4
Friday - Day One
- Travel Day
- Private screening of the movie “Reagan”
Saturday - Day Two
- Real Nature of Politics
- Preparing for Leadership
- Leadership Identification and Training
- Membership Recruitment & Tabling
- Organizing High Schools
- Care and Feeding of Volunteers
- Conducting a Campus Canvas
- Media and Public Relations
- Literature Layout & Design
- How to Present a Public Program
- Mock Elections
Sunday - Day Three
- Special Projects
- Ethics in the Public Policy Process
- Security, Intelligence, Reaction Time, & Creating Issues (Parts 1-3)
- Who should know what, when, in a massed-based youth effort.
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- Handling negative information about yourself.
- Handling negative information about your opponent.
- 10 ways to keep an issue alive
- Stories from Morton Blackwell
- Crisis Exercises
Monday - Day Four
- Educational Excursion
- Travel Day