3rd Annual LEAPS

What: LEAPS Academy, a 3 day service-learning, leadership development program

Where: City Year Boston Headquarters and Hostelling International,
Boston, MA

Recruit a group of 4-6 teens interested in workers’ safety. Teens and their adult advisor participate in the Academy. Teams develop a community project or event, to be implemented in their community. A stipend and all expenses will be paid for the advisor and teen participants.

Why: Bring together teens from across the state in hands-on activities focused on worker safety, worker rights, and workplace violence prevention

Provide youth with critical skills and hands-on opportunities to develop their leadership and teaching skills

Teens develop and return back to their communities to conduct an action plan focused on promoting youth worker safety and preventing workplace violence

For more information about the Academy, contact:
Nancy Luc, Youth Coordinator
617.825.7233, x 13
nancy.luc@masscosh.org

Niea Gardner, Media & Communications Coordinator
617.825.7233, x 17
niea.gardner@masscosh.org

MassCOSH
42 Charles St., Suite F
Dorchester, MA 02122
www.masscosh.org

(Teens Lead at Work Initiative)
LEAPS is supported by a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health