Key Components
- Adult / youth mentoring
- Community service
- Cultural exposure / exchange
- Youth led education and activities
Format / Structure
- Weekly activities and organizing events
- Bi-weekly community service activities
- Monthly cultural / recreational field trips
- Quarterly weekend retreats, with one week summer intensive
Focus and topics for retreat
- Diversity / tolerance
- Citizenship /leadership in community
- Job skill development
- Health, creativity and spirituality for stress reduction
- Family partnership and healthy relationships
The Peaceful Posse may lead to the formation of Reading-Berks Institute for Youth Advocates, which trains kids in leadership and community problem solving.
500 Buttonwood Street
Reading, PA 19601
Telephone: 610-736-3693
Fax: 610-736-3694