PELICAN STATE YOUTH MOVEMENT

Our Multi-Sports program hinges on our annual Multi-Sports Camp held during the summer vacation annually.  Hundreds of kids have enjoyed our camps over the past eight years.  During the 3-4 day camp, the participants are not only taught the fundamentals in various sports but are also lectured and encouraged by guest speakers to become better students, become more involved in their communities, and strive to be better people in general.

This program was instituted to:  1) raise the self-esteem of our young ladies and help them to realize that they're just as important as their counterparts(young men) in all facets of their development.  Whether it be social, educational, spiritual, etc., the choices that they make will profoundly affect their lives.  2) Bring awareness to issues facing our young adolescent ladies and the give them a forum to voice their social or personal concerns in a group setting, or one on one with mentor.  And 3) challenge them to to value themselves in all respects, and command respect from boys and young men in their lives. As a result, this will influence respectful and more responsible and moral behavior in our young men.

At PSYM, we recruit youth in our community to volunteer for the Community Action Team.  Many are participants in our Annual Summer Multi-Sports Camp who volunteer on weekends to join PSYM in various scheduled events taking place throughout the Morehouse parish area.PSYM has partnered with Morehouse Parish School Board in the past who provided painting supplies for a project which entailed painting elementary school playground equipment. The kids worked hard and had lots of fun in the process. More importantly, they learned the good feeling accomplishment that comes with giving freely of themselves to help others.