Youth Leadership Program Accepting Applications

Applications for the Youth Leadership Program sponsored by the Conejo/Las Virgenes Future Foundation are now being accepted. All students in grades 9-11 who attend school in the Conejo/Las Virgenes region are eligible.

Students accepted into this program will have the opportunity to develop effective leadership skills while learning more about their communities. The areas covered are: Introduction to Leadership, Local Government, Law Enforcement, Health Services, Recreation, Education, Community Services, and Business. The programs will be conducted by representatives from each of the above entities and the students will meet at the particular venue where the speaker works such as city hall, the hospital, etc. Each program will be very different and will range from tours, discussions, presentations, and more. All of the cities in the region will be participating. At the end of the program, students will be encouraged to participate in a community service project of their choosing.

The meetings will take place from 4-5:30 p.m. on the following Wednesdays: November 16, 2016, December 7, 2016, January 11, 2017, February 8, 2017, February 22, 2017, March 8, 2017, March 22, 2017, April 5, 2017, April 19, 2017 and April 26, 2017, and will be held at various nearby locations. This will make a total of 10 meetings.

Applications must be submitted by October 10, 2016 and students will be notified of their acceptance into the program by November 9, 2016. Attendance is very important. Please check your calendar to make sure that you can attend all or most of the meetings. Community Service credit will be given based on attendance. Students are responsible for their own transportation.

There is a non-refundable administrative fee of $50 per student upon acceptance. Scholarships are available based on need.

This is the eighth year of the Leadership Program, which follows twenty-five years of successful Youth Congresses sponsored by the Conejo/Las Virgenes Future Foundation. It has proven to be a very popular program, so we encourage students to apply early as there is a limit to the number that we can accommodate.

To apply click here Youth Leadership Program Application
If you have any questions, please call Karen Malatesta, Executive Director of the Foundation at (818) 880-1054 or email info@clvff.org.

Southern California Edison Sponsors Youth Leadership Program

Special Thanks to Southern California Edison (SCE) for sponsoring the Future Foundation's Youth Leadership Program. Thanks to SCE, 80 local high school students got a behind the scenes opportunity to see how some of our public agencies, businesses, and prominent institutions really work. 

2016 CLVFF Health Expo - April 9th

Health Expo is "Biggest Event Yet."

"The biggest event yet" is how Committee Chair, and Future Foundation Trustee, Louis Celaya described this year's Health Expo event held at the Agoura Hills/ Calabasas Community Center on April 9. An estimated 600 people attended the event to take advantage of free and low cost health screenings provided by Los Robles Hospital, UCLA Health and other health care providers. 

The event gave a big assist to people needing low cost health screening. Most notably, the carotid artery test found 3 people with full blockage! The Health Expo may have saved 3 lives with that screening alone. 

Thanks to our major sponsors:  Agoura Hills/ Calabasas Community Center, The Acorn Newspapers, LosRobles Hospital, and UCLA Health.

 

 

Foundation's Health Expo Bigger Than Ever

Event is April 9 at Agoura Hills/Calabasas Community Center

From "The Thousand Oaks Acorn" article By Stephanie Bertholdo

"The Conejo/Las Virgenes Future Foundation, a local think tank that focuses on life-enhancing trends for every age group, is once again tackling preventive healthcare by hosting an interactive family health expo from 9 a.m. to noon Sat., April 9 at the Agoura Hills/Calabasas Community Center.

The Community Health Expo, now in its sixth year, has been growing every year."

Click HERE to read the entire article.

Youth Leadership Visits Los Robles Hospital

February 3rd Youth Leadership Congress visited Los Robles Hospital in Thousand Oaks and listened to three administrators who lead specific areas of the hospital. The first person we met oversees the neonatal and pediatric areas. She gave us examples of devices they use in the hospital for infants and pregnant women and quizzed us on the use of each device and then gave more insight into these items and their function. Afterwards, she answered questions like, "How do you treat for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome babies" or "How do you care for premature babies?" Our second guest speaker is in charge of the laboratories at Los Robles. He explained the importance of doing lab work on blood and other fluids to help physicians diagnose patients and did an overview of many diseases that can be found in characteristics of blood and urine. He also talked about how diseases are caused by either bacteria or viruses. He answered our questions about the struggle against bacterial resistance as well as the difficulty in finding a treatment for HIV.

Our final speaker informed us about a new form of CPR called sidewalk CPR. In sidewalk CPR you don't breathe air into victim's lungs. Instead you continually push against their chest until paramedics come or until you become exhausted. This trip helped give insight into the medical field and how being a leader can help save lives.

Story by Peter Horvet