Youth Programs

PSD Staff

The District Youth and Young Adult Specialist is SherryWarren.

Exciting!! PSD Youth Summit is coming October 2-3!!

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Youth Ministry Working Group Releases Report

The much-awaited report from the Youth Ministry Working Group convened by Reverend Bill Sinkford, UUA President, to examine our youth ministry and make recommendations for improvement is available on uua.org. Read the Report

Facebook

Have you not located our facebook page yet? It’s so easy! Go to facebook.com and create a profile if you have not yet. Search Groups for “PSD” and join! You can also join the larger (not specific to youth) facebook organization for the entire Prairie Star District by searching for “Prairie Star District” under organizations. It can be confusing, but it is worth it to be networked and in the know.

Proposed Restructuring of Youth Programming PROVIDED by PSD

There is a lot of confusion around what PSD provides and what we don’t. Unlike many other districts in UUA, PSD congregations hold their own cons - short for conferences - for youth. PSD does not operate these events, nor are we even informed of them at times. PSD tries to plan events that involve educational opportunities as well as opportunities for youth to connect with others outside of their congregations. These are sometimes called “working cons”. The last few we have planned have been canceled due to low registration. Sherry wrote a proposal to the board of how to change things, and you can read it here.

Youth Zone

Homepage of Prairie Star District Youth — a description of who we are.

YAC

Information about the YAC, the group that plans many of the District youth-oriented events. Contains links to YAC documents, bylaws and forms. February 2009.... the PSD board was quite surprised to learn that the YAC had its own bylaws. It seems that committees are not allowed to have their own bylaws with the PSD governance structure. These will stay up for archival purposes, but Sherry’s thoughts are that they are null since there is no YRUU and the YAC is a committee of PSD.

YAC and BPC Members

Features current Youth Adult Committee and Boone Planning Committee members, with information about their positions.

CONS

Information about Youth Conferences and the YAC Seal of Approval process, with links to helpful brochures for youth new to CONS, parents, advisors, and adult sponsors or chaperones.

Youth Events in PSD

Information and links to registration forms for CONs and other youth events in the District. This is not necessarily a complete list since we are not always provided with this information from congregations. We add it when and if we are given correct information from the sponsor of the event.

Program Ideas

Describes six components of balanced youth programming, with links to resources and program ideas to use with YRUU groups that were submitted by district youth and youth advisors.

VISIONS Magazine

An online magazine featuring essays, poetry, art and other original creative expressions by PSD youth.

Photo Gallery

Photos from district youth events.

Our Vocabulary

Definitions of commonly used acronyms.

Useful Links

Links of interest to UU youth and their advisors.

Youth Archives

Archived information from PSD Youth.