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Paying Forward: Assisting The Next Generation
Wimbai Mutonono - Executive Director
Teenagers, especially high school students are currently facing challenges and hardships
that they are ill-equipped to deal with. The escalating high school dropout rates and
other statistics specific to the high school population reveal the immensity of the
problem. Through LEGACY Youth Development Institute, Gulf South Leadership Institute
in partnership with local professionals educates, equips and empowers high school
students through career and workforce readiness mentoring.
LEGACY Institute partners with the community to deliver a workforce mentoring program
that helps give young men and women the confidence, resources, tools and skills they
need to achieve their potential. By offering this youth career initiative, Gulf South
Leadership Institute is reinforcing what the education system is offering as well as adding
to the pool of resources available to high school students within the community.
THIS ISSUE
Assisting The Next Generation - E.D. P.1
Partnering with Professionals P.2
Developing Partnerships P.2
Smart Investment P.3
Office and Location Update P.4
The Core values that guide LEGACY
Youth Development Institute are:
Helping young people grasp basic
academic skills that facilitate graduation
from high school.
Assisting youth develop transferable job
skills to prepare them for the workforce
Equipping high school students with
interpersonal skills, knowledge, and
understanding of careers.
LEGACY Youth Development Institute Core Values:
Gulf South Leadership Institute
Spring - Summer 2012 News and Updates
Building Communities, One Leader At A Time.
Partnering with professionals to offer career readiness tools and life skills development:
Life Skills Development equips the
participants with skills that improve
eligibility for employment or pursuit
of post secondary education.
Career Exposure is delivered though
programs that provide information,
skills, and credentials required to
enter and advance in a field of choice.
Youth Development Initiatives include
any and all services that we can make
available to aid the youth in
overcoming individual challenges to
success.
LEGACY Youth Development Institute is a
strategy for helping young people succeed in school, work and life. The program is designed to a community model approach to youth career development. Gulf South Leadership Institute partners with the community to deliver a workforce mentoring program that equips young men and women with confidence, resources, tools and skills they need to achieve their potential.
High school dropout rates continue to escalate across the nation. The goal of LEGACY Youth Development Institute is to contribute to the process of lowering the dropout rates in our immediate community by engaging high school students in quality mentoring relationships with adults in various professional careers.
Research and statistics reveal the value of youth career development as a strategy to combat the dropout problem. The impact of the dropout problem affects local communities, states, and ultimately the nation at large. The LEGACY model for
LEGACY Youth Development
Institute Program Approach:
Otto Rojas (GSLI Board Chairman) and
Slidell’s Mayor Freddy Drennan with
LEGACY participants.
Kyra Turner and Kara Turner engaged
during a session of the LEGACY program.
Career mentoring and development takes into consideration some of the proven and successful methods communicated by the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring, and these methods are applied with relevance in mind. LEGACY endeavors to mentor young people to become highly responsible citizens with a high degree of self-reliance, resourcefulness, positive character/ and the desire and skill to contribute to the economy.
The program offers caring mentors from the community, composed of men and women who trust and believe in the potential that is present in every young person, and who are willing to invest time and resources to tap into that potential. Youth Career Development Social Issue Report documents that students who drop out of high school account for an estimated loss in potential earnings of $65.8 billion for the United States, and the solution of the problem is collaborated efforts and projects. The Education system alone cannot tackle the problem. It is a problem that calls for community-based, school-based, online-based, and faith-based approaches to career development and exploration.
By offering this youth career development initiative, Gulf South Leadership Institute is not taking away from other programs already in place, but reinforcing and adding to the pool of resources for high school students within the community.
LEGACY Institute has a three-component
approach for youth career mentoring and
development: fostering applied skills,
exposing to a wide variety of careers , and
offering youth development services.
Building Communities, One Leader At A Time
LIFE SKILLS
DEVELOPMENT
CAREER
EXPOSURE
YOUTH
DEVELOPMENT
INITIATIVES
The success of LEGACY Institute is highly
dependent on quality program delivery
partnerships. One such partnership is the
partnership established between Gulf
South Leadership Institute and Slidell
Memorial Hospital (SMH) Parenting
Center. This partnership facilitates the
use of conference rooms and facilities for
workshops and seminars. The success of
this mission to educate, equip, and
empower teenagers to get them ready for
the workforce is a huge undertaking, and
as such it requires the collaboration of
resources.
Gulf South Leadership Institute values
each networking relationship that helps
make the process easy yet accomplishing
the goals set forth. As a result of the
partnership with SMH Parenting Center,
Gulf South Leadership Institute is able to
offer seminars and workshops at any of
the Slidell Memorial Hospital System
conference rooms.
Board of Directors
2012
A business professional with a
passion for combining business
experience and education to make a
significant contribution in the field of
education. Over 10 years of diverse
experience in higher education, and
the non-profit sector with emphasis
The process of developing teenagers through career and workforce readiness mentoring is a limited reality without the support of professionals, parents and educators. One of the basic ways to help young people today is by caring for them and LEGACY Institute is surrounded by men and women who care for the future of high school students in our community. For greater success, the network cannot be too big and LEGACY continues to stretch an open invitation to more parents, professionals and educators. “Alone We do so little; together we can do so much.” - Helen Keller
LEGACY Institute Program Partnerships
Building Communities, One Leader At A Time
PROFESSIONALS , PARENTS, AND
EDUCATORS
Otto Rojas
Board Chairman
Otto Rojas is a native of Honduras and has lived in the New Orleans area since 1979. He has a Paralegal degree from Tulane University, 20 years business experience in the commercial collection industry and currently works for Bios Technolo-gies in sales. Otto also served hon-orably in the US Marine Corps and is a veteran of Desert Shield/Desert Storm. He is a great proponent of leadership in the ministry circles. He has been a Ministry Leadership student of Gulf South Leadership Institute and a lay leader within the
Carlton Greene
Board Vice-Chair
Mrs. Dawn Kahl serves as the assistant to
Gulf South Leadership Institute’s treasurer,
her husband Jason Kahl. Her experience is
in accounting and administration, gained
from past employment positions. Dawn
Kahl is the proud mother of three girls who
keep her busy in addition to her role with
Gulf South Leadership Institute.
Bishop Eugene Wellington Sr. was born in
Bukavu, Zaire and at a young age his family
moved to Sierra Leone where he completed
his high school education. After graduating
from high school he moved to Poland on an
academic scholarship and earned a Master’s
degree in Agricultural Marketing. Bishop
Wellington moved to Washington DC in 1987
to work with the May Department Corp,
then later moved to Louisiana where he
received his calling to ministry. As an ordained minister with the
United Pentecostal Church, he founded The El-Bethel Apostolic
Ministry (T.E.A.M). He also serves as chaplain and is a board member
for a few of the community organizations in the area including Gulf
South Leadership Institute.
Hans Ngodock is a research scientist with
the Naval Research Laboratory at the John
Stennis space center in southern Mississippi.
He earned a Bachelor’s degree of Science in
applied mathematics from the University of
Yaoundé (Republic of Cameroon) and a
Master’s degree in applied mathematics
and computer science from Université
Joseph Fourier in France. He has worked as a research associate at
Oregon state university and the University of Southern Mississippi.
He previously served as volunteer campus ministry leader with
“Les Groupes Biblibques Universitaires” in France, as youth
pastor with a Spanish church in Corvallis, OR.
GULF SOUTH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
1290 Seventh Street. Suite 5
Slidell, LA 70458
985.641.8427 Office [email protected]
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Board of Directors 2012 (Continued)
in regulatory compliance, program administration, grant-
writing and fundraising, budget management, forming
partnerships and collaborations, attrition analysis and
improvement, program implementation, and adult
learning. Carlton has held director level positions at “grass-
root” community based organizations as well as held key
leadership positions in higher education. Carlton has
mentored countless youth throughout his career who have
predominately lived in underserved communities. Carlton
possesses a Bachelor of Arts degree from Auburn
University, an MBA from Troy State University and is
currently pursuing a Doctorate in Management. Carlton has
a passion for working with youth and one of his objectives
is to ensure that all youth are equipped with the necessary
resources to succeed in their academic pursuits and in life.
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A decorated Veteran of Desert Storm
and Desert shield serving active duty
with the First Calvary out of Fort
Hood Texas. After being discharged in
1991 he started a school with his back
ground in AM/FM communications he
was certified in 1994 as a Novell
Engineer and Network Analyst, Jason
started with integrating hardware and software into K-12
then moved to private sector. He has worked with
information technology in Healthcare within the last 7.5
years as a Senior Project Manager and Senior Field Engineer
with a pharmacy and supply automation company. He was
side lined by a spinal cord injury in 2009, but remains active
in the community, he has served on the board of his
church, elected Vice President of the church's men’s club
and councils other veterans. Jason Kahl. Jason is supported
by his wife Dawn Kahl who is also very active in the GSLI
filling in for Jason when his physical limits are exceeded.
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P.O. Box 3352
Slidell, LA 70459
Carlton Greene
Board Vice-Chair
Jason Kahl
Board Treasurer
Dawn Kahl
Treasurer Assistant
Bishop Wellington
Board Member
Hansen Massoma
Board Member