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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us."
Oliver Wendel Holmes

THE ASI YOUTH ACCOMPANIMENT PROGRAM
"Empowering Tomorrow's Leaders Today"

Mission Statement

To Empower Young Individuals, Groups, and Organizations through Capability Building and Creative Skills Training towards Social Consciousness and Social Responsibility Centered on the Environment, Culture, Peace and God.

Vision

A Youth Social Action Arm of the Asian Social Institute Empowering the Youth Towards a Society Promoting Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation.

Training and Development Programs

Capability Building Training

Consultation
Personhood
Vision, Mission and Goal setting
Servant Leadership
Organizational Management
Community Organizing
Facilitator's Training

Organizational Development

Personal Management
Building a Learning Organization
Strategic Planning
Strategic Team Building

Talks/Seminars/Workshop

Personal Mastery
Personhood
Building a Learning Organization
Emotional Intelligence in Organizations
Use of Synergy in achieving Organizational Excellence

Symposiums

Youth Speak Series
Kultura't Kapayapaan

Conferences

Multi-sectoral Conference 99'
Multi-sectoral Conference 2000 Theme: "Globalization w/o Marginalization, Globalizaton w/o Exclusion"
Youth Conference Series 2001 Theme: "Kabataan, Kabahagi sa Prosesso ng Pagpapagaling"
Manila Youth Congress 2002 "Pagsasakasaysayan"

Research

Youth Aspiration Study - 2000

How it all started:

In 1984 at the request of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) through the Lay Apostolate Commission of the Bishops headed by Most Rev. J. Sorra, ASI was requested to train and undertake a national research study on the Youth in preparation for the International Year of the Youth in 1985. Fifty-one youth priest-and-lay-directors of the diocesan youth from Luzon , Visayas and Mindanao were trained by ASI and took the research. For one year ASI facilitated a participatory research study covering 4000 respondents, the result of this study is the creation of a separate Commission for the Youth in CBCP and a National Office. ASI helped also to gather funds for some delegates to be at the International Youth Meeting in Rome in 1985. Moreover, it assisted in giving scholarship for a leadership training in EAPI which had two of its resource persons coming from ASI. One striking finding of the study was that while the youth voiced out their need for money and food that time, their image of the church is quite positive and from the Church they would expect spiritual formation. Thus, started a series of training sessions in the various dioceses. It was in this study that ASI had an insight into why the poor youth from the provinces are pushed to come to Manila.

The ASI Communication Center, aware that most young people are audio-visual individuals and that they are highly influenced by the media in their value-system, had the idea of making young people aware of the influence of media while at the same time training them in micro-media communication skills. These skills could help them in their leadership formation. The ASI Communication Center gave trainings in some dioceses of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. From then on ASI began its involvement in accompanying young people towards empowerment. To date, ASI through the Youth Accompaniment Program has been accompanying a youth organization started by five young individual, organized as Kilusan para sa Kinabukasan ng Kabataan (KKK) “Movement of Youth for the Future”. This movement of KKK facilitated by ASI staff started with a consultation of groups of various sector of youth-Farmers, Fisherfolk, Urban Youth and Indigenous Youth. The result of the consultation started a process of immersion of youth from school and universities in the communities of grassroot groups, and a participatory research study on “Youth and Globalization” in Luzon. The contact between university and school youth with grassroot youth has fortered creativity among these sectors. The vision of the movement is that youth of various sectors will share common responsibility in building a world that lives on the principle, “Globalization without Marginazation, Globalization without Exclusion”. University and school youth and young professionals will not only make grassroots youth as merely beneficiaries but real partners in creating wholesome families, communities, nations and societies. This approach to integrate the schooled youth with the majority who make up the grassroot will have a long-range influence. It is known that there are 200 universities in the Philippines besides other schools and colleges. Institutional leaders come from these universities and yet much is left to be desired with regard to student being grounded in the reality of the monetarily poor people. The People Power 2 that ousted the Philippine President popular to the masses, belong to the middle class and the conscienticized poor. But ASI’s informal study showed that the great majority in the country – the monetarily poor – are of the opinion that EDSA People Power 2 was just a quarrel among the rich, among politicians who are fighting for power, that no Philippine president has substantially done anything to them.

The ASI’s Youth Accompaniment Program is focused on harnessing the energies of these young individuals from KKK and other youth groups towards the theme: “Globalization without Marginalization, Globalization without Exclusion” with sub-themes: Culture, Environment, Solidarity and Peace.