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NORTH STATE PARENT FAMILY RESOURCE GUIDE SPRING/SUMMER 2021 YOUTH & TEEN
Ashlee D., Anderson
Ashlee is 16 years old and
has been volunteering
with Redding’s Turtle Bay Exploration Park in the Animal Care Department since
2017. She has been an active participant in Turtle Bay’s Teen Conservation Club, and recently stepped in to serve as Interim President of the club. Ashlee has incredible heart for her community, Turtle
Bay, and especially the animal ambassadors.
Emma C and Sylva C.,
Mt. Shasta
Emma, 17; and her sister Sylva, 15, are officers in the MSHS Rotary Interact club and do a lot of volunteer work through this organization. They managed a food drive, made dog toys for the humane society, wrote cards to healthcare workers and repainted the high school sign. Emma and Sylva also help pick up trash and remove invasive plants from local parks and lakes through Key Club and an Environmental Sustainability club. Sylva also volunteers with Junior Statesmen of America, and Emma helps with community events and fundraisers. The pair are part of the school’s leadership team and volunteer at and organize many school events.
Grace P, Chico
Grace is 13 years old and is the president of CCC, a Chico club dedicated to educating others about climate change and doing everything they can to prevent it. The club does projects and events to reduce their own, their schools and their community’s greenhouse gas emissions and educate others about this topic.
Ethan B., Chico
Ethan is 16 years old and
has created a letter-writing organization called One Letter, Endless Joy. The group reaches out to assisted living facilities in the community to show continued respect and love for the seniors who are unable to have any visitors during the pandemic. He and his brother, Cade, created
a website to help spread the
word and rally volunteers around the world to write a unique, thoughtful letters to seniors in assisted living facilities. Ethan is integrating One Letter, Endless Joy into Interact, a club at his school that brings the community’s young adults and seniors together.
Peyton L., Redding
Peyton is 15 and is a sophomore at Foothill High School. Last fall she helped sort food and toy items that were donated to the Salvation Army for families in need. In mid December she used the Salvation Army individual child wish lists for kids from infant to 18 to “go shopping” through the donated items to create a bag of Christmas gifts that included necessities like clothes and wish list items like games, sports equipment, dolls, Barbies and bicycles. Her favorite part was creating the gift bags for the kids because it made her feel like Santa as she picked items based on each child’s favorite colors and interests.
LeahP.andLilyG.,Redding
Leah, 17; and Lily, 18, were juniors at Shasta High School when the pandemic hit last March. In addition to their extra- curricular activities (art and taekwondo for Lily, sewing and Science Bowl
for Leah, and Model United Nations
and California Association of Student Councils leadership for both), they volunteered as after-school peer tutors. Over the summer, Lily and Leah created a tutor application process, built a website, and recruited tutors for the Zoom-based program. By fall, Copernicus Tutoring had 16 tutors. Since launching on Instagram and starting a blog in September, Lily and Leah have expanded into three states on the East Coast, with 20 high school tutors offering one-on-one virtual help to kids as young as kindergarten, all the way through 12th grade.
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