The International Youth Hall of Fame® helps communities come together to recognize, celebrate, encourage, document and publicize the positive efforts of their youth who are making a difference at home, in school, and in the community. Everyday, around the world, school age youth of different religious, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds are making a difference. Their service, personal courage, social enterprise, and sharing creative gifts and talents with others, show us how it's the ordinary human virtues we're all born with that make us extraordinary.

What We Do Unlike traditional, competitive, youth recongition programs that honor the "best of the best," the International Youth Hall of Fame is a community, asset-building program that uses youth acknowledgement as the vehicle to bring families, friends, neighborhoods, schools and communities together to see, acknowledge and celebrate the best in all our kids. Youth Hall of Fame layers easily and supports communities with initiatives employing the 40 Developmental Assets, Communities That Care and Communities of Promise. Since 1990, the International Youth Hall of Fame has honored more than 3,000 youth and their families in 14 local Youth Hall of Fame chapters in eight states. Apply to start a chapter in your community! Youth Hall of Fame Seeks New Home. After eleven and a half years as an independent nonprofit, the International Youth Hall of Fame is seeking to find a home for its programs in a larger nonprofit to more efficiently share its systemic methodology with communities throughout the US, Canada and the world. Good News For Change. Too often, though, the majority of attention and publicity about our youth focuses on the negative. It's difficult to love and encourage that which we fear. Without nurturing and support, our youth have a future without hope. How can we change that? Inspirational Movies Make A Dfference. Please tell us about movies and videos that inspire you - fill out our movie survey Listen To The Children. Listen to the Children! Hear the Youth Hall of Fame's theme song right here. (You'll need the free RealPlayer if you don't already have it.) Copyright 1989 International Youth Hall of Fame.

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