Support for Young People Being Consulted

Save the Children Supports Young People Being Consulted and Making Decisions

12 August, 2010 - Today is International Youth Day marking the launch of International Youth Year that is focusing on ‘Our Year, Our Voice.’

Save the Children’s new leadership programme is being piloted in high schools giving students a toolkit of management principles to make lasting change in their lives and communities.

‘The programme introduces young people to tools developed by the ‘father of modern management’ Peter Drucker that develop students’ skills for effective management and social responsibility to become ethical leaders,’ says Liz Gibbs, CEO of Save the Children New Zealand.

‘In the Drucker-in-High-School programme young people work closely with business people and community leaders. It’s currently running at Scots College and Upper Hutt College and at the Masterton Youth Council, and is going to begin in two more high schools this year,’ says Ms Gibbs.

Save the Children New Zealand is also providing the Drucker management toolkit to the winning students from five schools and organisations across Auckland who are proposing how they would tackle New Zealand’s youth binge drinking culture in the first P3 Foundation Schools Enterprise competition on this weekend.

Save the Children New Zealand will formally launch the Drucker-in-High-School programme later this year.

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