Future Leaders our, Youth (F.L.Y. Foundation)

Contact: Stewart Joseph of the Family & Youth Roundtable of San Diego County (619) 546-5852 x 203, 345 15th St Suite A San Diego, California 92101, or email SpeakUp@FYRT.org

Mission: Future Leaders our, Youth is a youth leadership-development program specifically designed to address and reduce inter-group prejudice and conflict, and to prepare youth to be leaders of a diverse community.

Overview: The FLY Foundation conducts workshops, trainings, events as well as one on one and group coaching for youth that focus on youth leadership and development. Majority of the youth we work with are considered at-risk and youth who are in foster care. We also provide a four day/three nights Youth Leadership Academy where we take the youth out of their environment designed to address and reduce inter-group prejudice (stigma) and conflict while preparing the youth to be leaders of a diverse community. Every youth that graduates our FLY Academy is automatically enrolled in our One Year Success Program which is designed to keep the youth on track over the next year and help them reach their goals and personal development needs while enjoying monthly group coaching sessions with their peers as well as one on one personal development coaching sessions throughout the year.

Future Leaders our, Youth is a total grassroots organization dedicated to creating positive community change on a global level, over the next five years we plan to unleash a lot of different programs that are not only dedicated towards the youth but also dedicated towards the parents/guardians of the youth as well!!!

These are the components that make FLY unique:

- Students selected for participation are seen as community leaders (formal, informal, gangs).

- Participants are encouraged through training and support to leverage their skills for the benefit of the student body

- Future Leaders our, Youth focuses on enhancing faculty/student relations, police/student relations, conflict resolution skills, citizenship values, and interfaith and inter-cultural respect.

- Alumni from our FLY Academy are encouraged to be a part of the next Academy as a Student Counselor!!!

- Ongoing assessment, evaluation, and reevaluation of curriculum is based on participant feedback
Key Elements of Success:
- Our FLY Academy helps break down stereotypes that divide society

- Students are trained as youth leaders and future counselors for the FLY Academy

- Exercises operate on an interactive, emotional level that develops empathy, not just intellect.

- Parents and other adults are incorporated into the retreat curriculum
Target Population: Future Leaders our, Youth works with youth ranging from the ages of 4-13 and 13-25 years old who represent all social groups. FLY carefully structures the workshops, trainings, camps, etc. to include an even number of young men and women, and a balanced representation of ethnic, cultural, and religious groups. The goal is to advance real-world relations.

Author's Bio: 

A powerful, positive and larger-than-life force of personality, Stewart Joseph brings a unique name to the term Change Agent from the work he does with underserved youth to the leadership he brings to entrepreneurs from all different backgrounds Stewart truly loves to help make a difference in others life’s.

Stewart Joseph comes from a background of being a youth who was rebellious and honestly didn’t care to listen to what anyone had to tell him about life. He did it his way and so many times ended up inside the Juvenile Justice System and was headed towards a life of crime which would have lead him to a life full of grief.

Finally in 2005 Stewart found himself having his first born child it was a beautiful baby boy named Edward Joseph and Stewart looked at everything that was going on in his life and decided that wasn’t the legacy he wanted to leave his children. Stewart had finally found his life’s purpose and throughout that experience discovered his true calling and that is to make a positive impact in others life’s and help them strive towards a successful life.

For the past 5 years and counting Stewart has studied everyone and everything that spoke to personal strength, personal growth and empowerment. Stewart then integrated that information with his own experiences and developed a common sense approach for addressing life’s challenges, and utilizes this information to conduct effective group courses, seminars, workshops, one on one sessions, etc.

A on the rise motivational speaker and change agent, Stewart teaches an accessible process for discovering your true life passion and embracing the power that comes with it. His work, he says, “Teaches people how to move beyond whatever has happened in their lives in order to achieve your personal life’s journey and live the life you were truly destined to live.”

Stewart Joseph got his start in the life coaching (Change Agent) business with a nonprofit organization called the Family & Youth Roundtable which focus is working with people who have or currently receive public system services such as Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice, Public Education, etc. as well as working with the professionals that work with the family/youth and coaching them to building a better partnership with each other to ensure every family/youth member is thriving towards a successful completion of their “case plan”.

Stewart is currently putting together a Youth Leadership Academy called F.L.Y. (Future Leaders our, Youth) to share his wisdom, compassion and enthusiasm for life, with youth who are considered at risk youth and foster youth who are about to age out of the system and have a 90% chance to end up on drugs and become homeless and a 10% chance to live the life they truly desire. Stewart’s personal goal is to turn that statistic around so that these youth have a 90% chance to succeed in life and 10% chance of failure by providing these youth with a workshop/retreat that engages them to build a life plan for themselves and provides them with the resources to succeed also giving every youth who graduates the FLY Academy automatically gets enrolled in Stewart Joseph’s One Year Success Coaching Program to help guide them to success over the next year.

As the Chief Executive Officer of The Future Leaders our, Youth Project, Stewart Joseph conducts workshops and classes and coordinates trainings throughout San Diego County and beyond. Stewart’s customized, coaching, mentoring, and consulting are particularly well-suited for anyone interested in increasing their leadership skills and influence and those looking to improve their confidence, creativity, and charisma with highly effective life coaching services.

As a seasoned entrepreneur, Stewart’s principles for handling clients have traditionally been rooted in teaching and leading as a mentor and a coach. Recognized by many as progressive, he enjoys a reputation for coaching management teams to new heights, through practices that have kept his career vital and prosperous while making a difference in the world around him.

The depth of his business insight mixed with his personal life experience provides a powerful base for his clientele to draw upon while his leadership values articulate the groundwork for effective personal/professional growth.