Friday, October 01, 2010

What it takes for a YSA Center


• Have a sufficient number of Young Single Adults who will be able to gather at a central place (a minimum of 5 is required for the Center to be registered)
• Designate a space for the Center, usually shared use (and in cooperation with the Facilities Management group), that is available during open hours
• Ensure that an Institute teacher is called (in council with the S&I Coordinator)
• Have an S&I authorized Institute class that meets weekly
• Establish an Advisory Council that meets monthly
• Call and train a YSA Council Presidency that holds weekly YSA Council meetings in which responsibility for missionary, search & rescue, and transition efforts as well as service and activities is taken by the YSA.
• Ensure that a Senior Missionary Couple is assigned to the Center (either local service or full-time)
• Establish a weekly Family Home Evening
• Have fulltime missionaries assigned to the Center in cooperation with the Mission President.
• Set operating time of the center with the Advisory Council (3 to 5 afternoon/evenings per week)
• Request training for the Senior Couple (through the Area Seventy) by Area Committee Members, soon after the Center begins operation
• Instruct the couple to submit monthly reports for the first four months of operation
• Assure that a Stake Technology Specialist is called and functioning to support any computers in the Center
• Mission (Stake) President, submit a letter of application to the Area Seventy, Elder Christian H. Fingerle" who must support the application and forward it to the Centers for Young Adults Area Committee.

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