Agenda - Council - 05/27/1997 - Laserfiche WebLink

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· Have in town activity centers Where youth can sociali~e and participate in recreation and also talk to adults about their problems. Providing a safe, fun place for kids to hang out, with adult supervised activities that kids want to participate in. Adults should be educated in dealing with teens so they can offer correct information or advice if needed. Maybe even homework help available while kids hang out if needed. Thanks for your work. It is important and appreciated. · Youth between the ages of 11 and 15 need somewhere to go in the evening and on weekends. · Offer chemical-free dances and activities. · Focus on youth. Make it known that the youth of our communities are very important to us and a main priority. Keep a variety of activities available for youth and/or adult and youth activities. · There needs to be more awareness and community involvement in the projects already on-going. There needs to be more places for youth to hang out and more community projects they can be involved in. · We need a youth center for teenagers in the Andover area (foosbatl, darts, pool, activities, counseling, movies-like the Fish Pond). The kids could work in the area to earn the privileges and combine that with volunteer work. · Provide healthy opportunities, a healthy supervised place for kids to hang out. Offer activities free of charge if that's the only way to get them inyolved. Help in providing transportation to allow the youth to participate. · We need more places where youth can gather with others, their own age. They will need proper supervision. I also feel that the people who are trying to provide places for children need more help and support, like the Fish Pond. I belong to Youth First. · D) Sometimes kids pick up ideas and think it's cool to get in trouble with the law, keep this issue and discussion with only the trouble makers. E) The reason youth are always in trouble, drugs, sex, teen pregnancy, is because they are alone after school! Teens need some type of parent figure to look up to-it doesn't need to be a parent-sometimes it's better not to be the parent of the child. I think some type of youth center for the hours that kids are alone might help some problems. We need activities for youth to be involved in. I see a real need for community involvement for after school activities and summer activities, possible mentorship. Providing more adult/youth programs relating to these issues. Also providing public assistance, if needed. [ feel there should also be some kind ote community center for our youth providing them with all sorts of activities. Develop places for kids to have activities. The skaters would do great if they had a place to skate. As a teacher, I hear numerous complaints from this group. Isthere some way-we, can help them? · Community involvement, athletics or any extra curricular activities for youth. Spiritual background. There needs to be a place where youth can go to play, hang out, etc. Possibly free of charge. Children should be heard, but first we need to get them to talk freely. We need to create a non- challenging situation for them. · Find projects like the Fish Pond. F-Depending on who the adult is. Support Anoka's youth center in the former post office at 3rd and Main. Encourage Governor Carlson to give back the $500 million plus surplus to' our schools to put back music programs, sports training, former school activities to keep kids busy. Adding a teen clinic much like the Nucleus Clinic in Andover for prevention of teen pregnancy. Adding swimming or other community classes to the Andover area. · As children, both of us had ~work" of some kind or another to do. We also had time to play, but the priority was to do your work first, and then play. Programs which foster the work ethic and discipline are needed. · Kids 14 and i5 should be able to work for the community (Andover) like the Coon Rapids program (Trail Blazers) that is offered in the summer to clean up our parks, have fun and get paid, plus keep out of trouble. I I I I I I I I, I I I i I I