Summer Assistant Leader Training (SALT) Program

Cody Jang
SummerAssistant Leader Training Coordinator

The Summer Assistant Leader in Training (SALT) Program engages high school youth who might otherwise not have the opportunity to attend summer programming. This summer the program focused on developing leadership skills in a community context. SALTs split their time between assisting a Program Leader - working with elementary and middle school youth - and attending their own workshops - which included teambuilding, leadership skills, discussion of their groups, debating, public speaking, break dancing, improvisation, and research with the Chinese Historical Society of America. The current model gives participants the unique chance to learn new skills and put them into practice the very next day.