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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong> </strong></span><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Press Advisory - For Immediate Release</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Registration Open for Empower Montana High School Leadership Camp<br /><br /></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Contact</strong>: Claire Michelson, Youth Program Specialist </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Phone</strong>: 406-541-6891 </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Email</strong>: claire@empowermt.org <br /><br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">This summer, Empower Montana (formerly NCBI Missoula) will continue its partnership with Missoula County Public Schools and surrounding communities to empower high school students and educators with leadership skills to create inclusive schools and communities. The 10th Empower Montana High School Leadership Camp will be held July 28th-30th at Camp Paxson on Seeley Lake. The 3-day camp will prepare participants to return to their communities to co-lead Empower Montana’s violence prevention and prejudice reduction workshops in K-12 schools across Montana throughout the year.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Empower Montana is a 501(c)3 leadership development organization focused on ending mistreatment, correcting systemic inequalities and strengthening communities across Montana through empowering everyday citizens. Empower Montana’s High School Leadership Camp focuses on building relationships across group lines, raising awareness about mistreatment and violence, diffusing conflict, and promoting inclusion of diverse groups. Youth participants from past Leadership Camps have shared, "This camp has really help me feel more confident about my identities and I want to do that for others too"; "I loved this camp! I have never felt more accepted as an individual and empowered to stand up for what I believe in."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">The camp is unique in its empowerment structure; it is led by the organization’s trained youth leaders, providing up-front leadership experience and opportunities. Modeled similarly as a “train the trainer”, the High School Leadership Camp expands the reach of Empower Montana’s prejudice and violence prevention work reaching more young people and more communities. With the help of the organization’s youth trainers, Empower Montana trained over 1,600 students and educators in 2016.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Empower Montana is still accepting registrations and space is limited to 60 students. High School students and educators from Missoula, surrounding communities and the Flathead Valley are encouraged to attend. More information and online registration can be found at </span><a href="https://u2155080.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=AIXPmJV-2F8rMUJfrGBempvqmpAYp555-2FHkYHOA-2FA5PdRHSBpOXJsbiTu-2BmmsME0iH_mSGPTRW-2FT-2FQPGYphe7gfA6PYRqFOSewUuRbBHgre9xwifIpEoqSnL9B4nkH7GaJjB0ScaHyeTios7FrLoOsOkeq4vcnmQcwk0CabYw4ldZ-2FdpAD25m1J4g6XgPdpjup62Q7de4RWwQ1BzdCTW3JkvcGbr1wyBIryfuTmduG7SdwSbA-2FTVdbMuBMovfMXL9p6tgPXDQyEp6Cdv4y8WvzwiC2MW-2FQBB0rddBUkksR0TeqKrYVGyGQrBMzrHCWomVgb4MZw5Emb91W2iJ-2BB0i52DiSvh9HZUzeupprrz-2BDxPb4-3D">www.empowermt.org/camp2017</a></p>
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