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Leadership Camp

  • Leadership Camps

    In 2009, Dr. Ken Brookens and his wife Jean Brookens, along with family, friends, and professionals with a similar passion and vision, conceived Sustainable Hope, to work specifically with at-risk youth worldwide.

    This work began in the Province of Chiang Mai, in the north of Thailand, to help improve the lives of the poor and disadvantaged youth in welfare schools, orphanages and remote villages.

    They formed in 2008, Sustainable Hope International (SHI) a 501-C-3 U.S. not-for-profit, providing education resources and training for teachers and marginalized students. And three year later, in 2012, Sustainable Hope Thailand Foundation (SHTF) a Thai Foundation was registered with the Thai Government.

    SHTH has developed the “We CanTM Club” a three-year training model and curriculum that teaches, trains, and certifies advisors (teachers) and student’s basic skills in learning, language, life skills, leadership and living in community.

    Sustainable Hope provides effective methodology for
 youth leadership development:

    • Providestechnical, administrative, and organizational support, and helps establish and strengthen university-based and community-based programs
    • Conductsgrassroots “training of trainers” workshops, using an interactive approach.
    • Developsand assists in the development of interactive curricula and manuals for English teachers and students,
    • Coordinatesand hosts We CanTM Club Leadership camps for eligible participating students.
    • Organizesand facilitates visits, provides incentives for advancement and exchanges and trainings between students and teachers
    • Worksto connect students with university and vocational programs with established university and corporations
    • Offersopportunities for service clubs such as Rotary and corporations to sponsor “We Can TM Clubs” and Government school programs
    • Sustainable Hope seeks to develop and strengthen positive partnerships and networks locally, regionally, and internationally.
  • Our Activities

    Sustainable Hope organizes and support the following activities for youth leadership development:

    • Providestechnical, administrative, and organizational support, and helps establish and strengthen university-based and community-based programs
    • Conductsgrassroots “training of trainers” workshops, using an interactive approach.
    • Developsand assists in the development of interactive curricula and manuals for English teachers and students,
    • Coordinatesand hosts We CanTM Club Leadership camps for eligible participating students.
    • Organizesand facilitates visits, provides incentives for advancement and exchanges and trainings between students and teachers
    • Worksto connect students with university and vocational programs with established university and corporations
    • Offersopportunities for service clubs such as Rotary and corporations to sponsor “We Can TM Clubs” and Government school programs
    • Sustainable Hope seeks to develop and strengthen positive partnerships and networks locally, regionally, and internationally.

    We facilitate safe learning spaces.

    Bringing Dreams within Reach.

    Youth feel safe in a group when they know the behaviors that are expected of them.

    To clarify these behaviors, it is important to lead the Club though a process of identifying the standards of behavior all agree they want for their Club.

    These can be written in the form of Club Rules.

    Club rules help members monitor their own behaviors and decrease the need for the adult leader to control behavior.

    Clear rules also help prevent misunderstandings between members and adults and leaders about appropriate behavior at Club meetings and events.

  • Partnerships

    In 2009, Dr. Ken Brookens and his wife Jean Brookens, along with family, friends, and professionals with a similar passion and vision, conceived Sustainable Hope, to work specifically with at-risk youth worldwide.

    This work began in the Province of Chiang Mai, in the north of Thailand, to help improve the lives of the poor and disadvantaged youth in welfare schools, orphanages and remote villages.

    They formed in 2009, Sustainable Hope International (SHI) a 501-C-3 U.S. not-for-profit, providing education resources and training for teachers and marginalized students. And three year later, in 2012, Sustainable Hope Thailand Foundation (SHTF) a Thai Foundation was registered with the Thai Government.

    SHTH has developed the “We CanTM Club” a three-year training model and curriculum that teaches, trains, and certifies advisors (teachers) and student’s basic skills in learning, language, life skills, leadership and living in community.

    Sustainable Hope provides effective methodology for
 youth leadership development:

    • Providestechnical, administrative, and organizational support, and helps establish and strengthen university-based and community-based programs
    • Conductsgrassroots “training of trainers” workshops, using an interactive approach.
    • Developsand assists in the development of interactive curricula and manuals for English teachers and students,
    • Coordinatesand hosts We CanTM Club Leadership camps for eligible participating students.
    • Organizesand facilitates visits, provides incentives for advancement and exchanges and trainings between students and teachers
    • Worksto connect students with university and vocational programs with established university and corporations
    • Offersopportunities for service clubs such as Rotary and corporations to sponsor “We Can TM Clubs” and Government school programs
    • Sustainable Hope seeks to develop and strengthen positive partnerships and networks locally, regionally, and internationally.
  • Train-the-trainer

    In 2009, Dr. Ken Brookens and his wife Jean Brookens, along with family, friends, and professionals with a similar passion and vision, conceived Sustainable Hope, to work specifically with at-risk youth worldwide.

    This work began in the Province of Chiang Mai, in the north of Thailand, to help improve the lives of the poor and disadvantaged youth in welfare schools, orphanages and remote villages.

    They formed in 2008, Sustainable Hope International (SHI) a 501-C-3 U.S. not-for-profit, providing education resources and training for teachers and marginalized students. And three year later, in 2012, Sustainable Hope Thailand Foundation (SHTF) a Thai Foundation was registered with the Thai Government.

    SHTH has developed the “We CanTM Club” a three-year training model and curriculum that teaches, trains, and certifies advisors (teachers) and student’s basic skills in learning, language, life skills, leadership and living in community.

    Sustainable Hope provides effective methodology for
 youth leadership development:

    • Providestechnical, administrative, and organizational support, and helps establish and strengthen university-based and community-based programs.
    • Conductsgrassroots “training of trainers” workshops, using an interactive approach.
    • Developsand assists in the development of interactive curricula and manuals for English teachers and students,
    • Coordinatesand hosts We CanTM Club Leadership camps for eligible participating students.
    • Organizesand facilitates visits, provides incentives for advancement and exchanges and trainings between students and teachers.
    • Worksto connect students with university and vocational programs with established university and corporations.
    • Offersopportunities for service clubs such as Rotary and corporations to sponsor “We Can TM Clubs” and Government school programs.
    • Sustainable Hope seeks to develop and strengthen positive partnerships and networks locally, regionally, and internationally.