I heard about YAC through the Wright family. I am highly interested in joining because I believe it is important to be involved in your community. Not only that but being involved will help with college applications in the future and college is a big deal and I will always be preparing and building myself up for it. The qualities that I could bring to the council is leadership. I have a strong voice and a strong personality and would be a great leader, however I also work great with other people and I am friendly.

Community service to me is a vital thing I believe everyone should do. There are many people in our world that are at a disadvantage and need food or water, or even people that just need someone to talk to. By getting involved in community service it can influence other people to do it to, which we need since there is so much service that needs tending. However, even if you don’t influence, tending to one person can spread like wildfire. Community service has impacted me greatly, because I grew up in Waco Texas which was near a large city and I would see homeless people upon homeless people every single day and even though I was so small it broke me heart because I knew they deserved better. So community service lifts some weight off of my shoulders helping me know that I just helped someone who needed it, like I have always wanted to do.

I believe the only way to address a problem is to find a solution, because sometimes even addressing something does not make a great enough effect to make it better. I have not only found a solution to one of these problems I have found a single solution for all three problems in one. My solution for these concerns is an after school study group, which would be offered to students that seemed like they needed help, or students could just join if they are interested. The study group would get together after school hours at a public place, like the park, a library, or even a cafe and study for a few hours together. These study groups would bring students together helping students socialize and create more friends, which would help with the mental health issue giving people who may feel alone a group to hang out with. This solution would also help with the vaping and smoking, because it would keep students busy hopefully aiming them away from vaping and smoking. However, this solution will exceptionally help the academic pressure because it would give students a defined time to study so they don’t forget about it. If you go home and sit on the couch you may forget about your homework causing you to stress and even possibly create a pile of late assignments, but if this study group got together it would give students a definite time to study. These groups could be held every day after school for a few hours and you can tend any day you are available. A study group would all in all put better influence into students lives and improve their scores at school which is highly important.

I will prioritize my commitment to this organization by keeping every single fourth Sunday clear for YAC, and if something is planned I would try and work around it and show up for YAC. The few activities that may interfere with YAC is my involvement in sports, theater, and when I have to visit my dad whom lives two hours away, however, that should not interfere often.

I have not applied to a YAC membership in the past, but I am super excited to get the possibility of an opportunity with the YAC organization.