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UMKC Education, Youth Programming

Health Teacher for Youth Ambassadors KC

For the past several years the UMKC Social Work Department has worked with Youth Ambassadors KC. Sarah Pilgram has served as a presenter for their in-service training, a health teacher to 50+ youth aged 14 -18 in the Kansas City area, a site coordinator, and have worked with the Executive Director to develop scholarship opportunities.

ongoing: The collaboration began during the fall of 2016 and the collaboration is ongoing and will continue to be well into the future.
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Health Teacher for Youth Ambassadors KC

Youth Ambassadors began in 2010 as an innovative collaboration of community partners in the Kansas City metropolitan area who joined forces to implement a state-of-the art, non-profit employment program for underserved youth.

Youth Ambassadors is an educational employment program designed to empower underserved teenage youth with important life skills, soft job skills, creative expression, and adult mentors, helping them become future community leaders willing and able to work for positive change.


Sarah Pilgram began working with Youth Ambassadors during the fall of 2016. The UMKC School of Social Work has consistently placed MSW Students at their site for practicum placements. UMKC professors were asked to initially train their teaching staff on trauma informed engagement with students. Following this, Sarah became more engaged and served as a health teacher to 50 + youth during the summer of 2018. During the summer of 2019 she served as a site coordinator for one of their three sites at Rockhurst University. Following the summer of 2019 she began working with Teesha Miller (YA Executive Director, Joey Lightner (UMKC Public Health), and Amanda Grimes (UMKC School of Nursing) to develop the Youth Ambassadors Health Academy. We are submitting grants and developing programming that will hopefully lead to a "health profession pipeline" for the Youth Ambassadors that are interested in this field. This summer (2020) due to COVID we are serving the youth in a virtual format. Sarah has been working to develop and provide content focusing on health issues to the Youth Ambassadors in a virtual format while conducting small group Zoom meetings with a small number of Ambassadors. This is a strong community collaboration that we hope continues to grow and develop.

Impact

Youth Ambassadors serves 150 - 200 youth each year all of which reside in the immediate Kansas City Metro Area that UMKC serves as an urban serving University. These youth are dedicated to their communities and to pushing themselves forward. I hope that our collaboration can assist them with achieving their professional and education goals.
Character Education Child Development Social Work Youth

Contacts

Sarah Pilgrim
  pilgrims@umkc.edu
  8162355878
Ile Haggins
  hagginsi@umkc.edu
  816-235-6717

Partner

Teesha Miller
  kcyouthambassadors@gmail.com
  (816) 793-3833

Location

  Kansas City, MO, USA

More Information

https://youthambassadorskc.org/

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