We work with youth (ages 13-19) to develop their leadership skills and begin to set and achieve goals. This innovative and unique inside-out process, called Rising Stars, is designed to build character and confidence and prepares young people to reach higher in life.
Hear Rising Stars participants talk about their experience:
It is not an uncommon opinion that today’s young people are less prepared to take their places in society than their parents. Our society is more complex, more challenging, and more competitive than ever before. An alarming percentage of our youth engage in health compromising behaviors, underachieve in school, and are without direction in life.
Do you believe young people are prepared to become tomorrow’s leaders?
Could we all do a better job of preparing our young people for life’s challenges?
The Rising Stars Process is designed to help today’s youth develop their personal leadership skills and begin to set and achieve goals while they are young.
Members of the Brotherhood of Extraordinary Young Men at Zion-Benton Township High School recently completed Rising Stars. Read the Zion-Benton News article here.
Rising Stars helps young people:
- Set direction for themselves
- Align their actions with desired outcomes in life
- Identify and develop their personal leadership qualities
- Learn to learn from their mistakes and develop a positive self-image
- Identify good and bad personal habits and attitudes and make good choices
- Set and achieve personal goals
- Manage time better and decrease procrastination
- Be more self-aware, which can lead to better communication and greater motivation
- Solve problems and lead others
- Increased grade point average (as high as 40% increase)
- Reduction in disciplinary and truancy incidents (as high as 56% reuction)
- Lower drop-out rates
- Higher college class attendance rates
- Noticeable positive behavioral change
- Reduction in “at-risk” behaviors
- Goal oriented informed decisions being made
- Effective communication in diverse situations
- Demonstration of leadership in various situations
- Internalization of time management and conflict resolution
- Cooperative, teamwork oriented attitudes
- A vision and purpose in life
- Use of knowledge, skills and influence to achieve planned outcomes
Who it is for & how it works
Parents. We help inspired or concerned parents by providing a Rising Stars coaching process for individual young people to help them reach their full potential. One-on-one sessions can be flexibly scheduled over a period of 10 to 16 weeks.
Youth Organizations. We help any organization that works with young people ages 13-19 by providing the Rising Stars process for groups. It can be set up as 10 to 16 weekly sessions or as 2 to 5 intensive seminars.
Camps. We provide the Rising Stars process as a camp activity or curriculum. Flexible scheduling of sessions, e.g. five 4-hour sessions over 5 days, or can be adapted to less days as necessary.
Middle and High Schools. We work with schools by providing the Rising Stars process in flexible formats and multiple delivery options. We can train school personnel or implement ourselves.
Community Colleges. We provide flexible formats for our Rising Stars process for students in 2-year colleges. Great for student success courses, seminars, or elective intensives.
4-year Colleges and Universities. We work with academic and/or student services personnel to provide Rising Stars to first and second year college students as part of a student success strategy.
Contact us for more information about partnering with GOALign Resources to equip young people for personal success and help prepare our next generation of leaders.