[Ponte Alto] Fwd: [AtlantiaYouthOfficers] Fw: Introducing the SCA Youth and Family Achievement Program

[Eliisa Harman]

Greetings Pontoons!

For your perusal, information about the new SCA Youth and Family
Achievement Program (YAFA)...check the FAQs linked below. Stay tuned on how
this will affect you and your littles...for now, just check it out. :)

Yours in Service,
Lady Annika Siltanen
Chancellor for Youth Activities
Barony of Ponte Alto



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 *From:* "Hoyt, Stephanie" <Stephanie.Hoyt at cra-arc.gc.ca>
*Cc:* Steph Hoyt <rusti at sympatico.ca>
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 29, 2014 9:35 AM
*Subject:* Introducing the SCA Youth and Family Achievement Program

 Greetings to the most noble Royal families in the Known World and Their
Kingdom Seneschals,
The following missive is an introduction to the new Youth and Family
Achievement Program (YAFA) that the SCA Inc. intends on making available to
any Kingdom that would like to use it. The goal is to have it ready for all
Kingdoms before the Summer of 2014 so it is key that we start to spread the
word and generate the same kind of excitement about the program that we all
have here. If Your Kingdom has decided to make use of the program could you
please forward the following to Your Kingdom Chroniclers for print in Your
newsletters. Please feel free to distribute it in any forum and suggest
that it be announced in courts, posted on youth lists and kingdom lists and
posted on websites.
 Thank you so much for Your time and please feel free to contact me if You
have any questions,
 Duchess Rustique, Co-lead YAFA.
Announcing the arrival of the Youth and Family Achievement Program (YAFA).
>From the 2010 SCA Census of the membership one of the key questions was
about declining membership - when asked this question the 4th most cited
reason was families were finding it difficult to attend events with
children and that there was nothing for the children to do. The Youth and
Family Achievement Program (YAFA) is the SCA Inc.'s response to the Survey
results. A team was pulled together to create the YAFA program and since
June 2012 they have been working diligently on providing a solution and
program for SCA families to use.

The vision for the YAFA program is to encourage active participation by
families with children and teens in the study of a variety of medieval
subjects and activities, sharing their experiences and accomplishments with
others, and create ownership and investment in the Society.  The goal is to
have an energetic society of honorable citizens developed from within. This
program will guide and encourage young people and their families in seeking
opportunities for involvement in the SCA.

 YAFA's mission is to create opportunities for youth-protected activities
and achievements designed to retain and support participants and their
families through education while respecting, protecting, and fostering the
cultural climate of individual Kingdoms. The YAFA Program is based in a
foundation of chivalry, the arts, and service to help encourage values
important to the Society. Those youth participants completing their
individually chosen areas of study will be eligible to wear tokens of
achievement.
The goal is to make the program available to all SCA Kingdoms before the
Summer of 2014 so the Society encourages you to read the link below on
important FAQ's and please let us know if you have any additional
questions.

The YAFA team can be contacted at: yafa at sca.org

Link to the FAQ:  http://sca.org/YAFA-FAQ.pdf



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