The first meeting of the Youth Advisory Team was held on January 23.  All team members were in attendance as were Coach Bob and Coach John.  The meeting covered the following topics:

1. Introduction of roles and responsibilities of each Youth Advisory Team member.

2. Determining short and long-term goals for 2011.

3. Deciding on a short-term project for 2011.

The topics of improving community awareness and providing a community mentoring program for youth were the common topics of this meeting.  The Youth Advisory Team will continue to discuss the implementation of a mentoring program in the next few months.  However, the main short-term goal of the Youth Advisory Team meeting will be to host a Community Field Day.

This Community Field Day will encompass the greater Denver area and will be a one-day family participation event scheduled just after school is out before the summer.  This event will combine the goals of improving awareness of living a healthy lifestyle by having fun, physical activity stations, nutrition education stations and other activities.  The Youth Advisory Team is hard at work in their planning stages and will need assistance in the following areas:

1. Vendors to provide healthy food and snacks

2. Vendors to exhibit their products and services to families

3. Equipment

4. Location ideas

5. Marketing and advertising

6. Parent volunteers

If you are interested in helping the Youth Advisory Team with any of this, please email Coach Bob and he will pass your interested along to the team.