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The Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc.-Eduardo Aboitiz Development Studies Center (RAFI- EADSC) and the University of San Jose-Recoletos are partnering to improve the school’s youth training program curriculum by infusing it with modules from the Young Minds Academy (YMA).

This project is a direct result of the partnership agreement signed by the two institutions in February 2015 to explore and undertake collaborative programs and activities especially those in line with youth development.

Last December 10, 2017, 11 youth volunteer facilitators underwent an orientation and training on the module “Building the Team.” The training is the first of a series of facilitators’ trainings lined up to capacitate student facilitators for them to assist the university in delivering the course curriculum to National Service Training Program – Civic Welfare Training Services (NSTP-CWTS) enrollees come annual year 2018 to 2019.

RAFI-EADSC Program Officer Jenny Lea Tan-Menchavez was the main facilitator and trainer for the session. She was assisted by fellow Program Officer Christian Anuta during the half-day training.

The YMA-NSTP CWTS Integration Program is a strategy of RAFI’s Governance and Linkages unit to upscale its YMA program by enriching the CWTS course with valuable and relevant information that ultimately would lead to community development interventions initiated by the students.

It also ensures that the purpose of YMA, which is to develop the leadership skills of the youth through building up their character, competence and citizenship, continues on a much larger scale.