Online Presence Growing   
The Lions Quest Fan Page on Facebook  has more than 1,300 fans. Have you visited? Lions Quest now has a Playlist on You Tube. Catch Lions Quest in action with a number of videos and watch for more to be added soon. Link to our Fan Page and our Playlist from the Lions Quest Web site. Follow us on Twitter!

USCCD Youth Service Recognition

In November 2010 Lions Clubs International was named a Top 10 organization by the Youth Service Task Force at the U.S. Summit for Global Citizen Diplomacy.  The U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy
(USCCD), in partnership with the U.S. State Department hosted the Summit, which convened more than 100 NGO leaders working in groups of nine Task Forces to vet hundreds of proposals for new, innovative programs to increase the number of Americans engaged with the world.

Lions Quest Seminars

Lions Quest is available to host seminars at your Lions convention this Spring.  We also facilitate half-day and full-day Lions Quest trainings.   If you have dates available, we'd love to come and work with you.  We can customize our sessions to your audience and time frame.  For details, please call 630-468-6960 or e-mail Sandy O'Lear.

Schools That Work

Edutopia online is highlighting a South Carolina school where after school learning cultivates emotional intelligence.  The Schools That Work: Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) After School series explores strategies for teaching essential SEL skills, and provides practical tools and resources valuable to new programs and those looking to add SEL to an existing program. 

This Spring, Lions Quest will be piloting new approach models for implementing Skills for Adolescence (SFA) in out-of-school time (OST) settings.  Program guides and blended learning training options will prepare OST educators to align SFA with one of three approaches:  evidence-based drug and alcohol prevention; consolidated, comprehensive SFA; or extended learning opportunities.  Models will include 24-90 lessons for implementation in 20-week to three-year time frames. SFA for OST products and training will be available for the 2011-12 school year.

Lions Quest Around the World

Lions Quest K-12 programs are implemented in nearly 60 countries and more than 30 languages, making it one of the most widely used life skills and prevention programs in the world. To date, 500,000 educators have been certified to teach Lions Quest and nearly 12 million youth have benefitted from the program.