Friday Night Live
Program Mission Statement
"Building youth-adult partnerships for positive and healthy youth development which engage youth as active leaders and resources in their communities."
Overview
The Friday Night Live (FNL) program assists students who are interested in developing leadership skills foster a drug, tobacco and alcohol free lifestyle in their community. Students receive training focused on public speaking, media awareness, environmental prevention and advocacy. Participants plan and participate in fun and educational activities on campus as collaborate with local youth coalitions and agencies on environmental prevention projects. Based in service learning to help students focuses on issues related to Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs (ATOD) in our community, and helps to plan and implement school-based campaigns such as Red Ribbon Week and Committed. To learn more about the history of the California Friday Night Live Partnership go here.
Friday Night Live Standards of Practice provide:
- A safe environment
- Opportunities for Community Engagement
- Opportunities for Leadership and Advocacy
- Opportunities to Build Caring and meaningful relationships with peers and adults
- Opportunities to engage in interesting and relevant skill building activities
Friday Night Live Operating Principals:
- Be youth driven and led
- Develop skills and resilient traits, such as fostering sense of power and autonomy
- Build community partnerships to support youth
- Demonstrate a commitment to cultural competency
- Foster meaningful and caring relationships among youth & with adults
- Promote belief in youth' capacity to contribute
- Provide safe, healthy, fun, and supportive places for youth to be
- Have clearly defined goals that will be measurable to achieve effectiveness, based on research and objective data
- Support and train all adult staff on a regular basis to work effectively with youth
- Evaluate programs periodically to asses progress and refine, improve and strengthen the program effectively