LEAPS Conference

Downtown Boston April 23-25, 9am-5pm Leadership Education and Action to Promote Safety (LEAPS) for Young Workers is a three-day conference for youth focused on workplace violence prevention, young worker safety and health, and the Child Labor Law. LEAPS offers young people:

• A hands-on, action-based learning three-day EXPERIENCE
• A chance to develop leadership and teamwork skills
• An opportunity to build an action plan to take back to their community
• A stipend for implementing their ideas after the conference

LEAPS is a ‘team-based’ conference and youth (ages 14-17) must sign up in groups of 4-6 with at least one adult advisor, over age 21. To apply for LEAPS both the adult leader and teen participants should fill out an application and send them together to MassCOSH by January 31st, 2008. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and confirmed participants will be notified by February 29th.
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