Explanation of Evidence
I am part of YouthForce a program within the Boys and Girls Club for teens who want work experience as well as opportunities to learn and strengthen skills such as personal management and teamwork. We have YouthForce University once a month and this is when we all come together to participate cooperatively and productively in work teams to identify and solve problems. One example of this would be when we go together to be part of the reviewing committee to change/update the Boys and Girls Club of Portland mission statement. As a team we had to work together to find outdated words in the mission statement or phrases that we would like to be reworded. During this time we had to be very respectful to one another in order to complete the task. Since we were working together to solve a problem and by all of us being respectful we were making it a safe environment for people to feel
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We had to come up with as many changes as we could in an hour, to make this work more efficiently we were broken into groups. At the end of the hour we got back together to share as a whole group what we had writing down. I had to show initiative by standing up and telling the group as a whole the things our small group had found outdated in the mission statement. That way we all contributed to the group conversation and we were able to show our supervisors we are not only responsible but also dependable teens who can work together to find solutions for important task such as this. YouthForce has helped tremendously because it has helped me show the skills i posses such as teamwork and self management but also it has taught me how to put those skills in action by allowing