Program Vision: Ensuring our youth are prepared as leaders to meet future challenges that arise in our city, county, and state.

Program Description: The Lee County Young Leaders Program is a year-long, county-wide leadership experience for high school juniors and seniors across Lee County, Alabama. Through hands-on sessions, small-group discussions, and real-world experiences, students build leadership skills while forming meaningful connections with peers and some of the area’s most respected business, nonprofit, and community leaders.

Participants gain practical tools in communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and civic engagement while learning how their community works behind the scenes. By the end of the program, students leave with a strong professional network, a deeper understanding of local leadership, and the confidence to step into future roles on boards, committees, and service organizations.

Our goal is simple: to inspire and equip the next generation of leaders who will invest their talents back into Lee County and help our community thrive.

Program Goals:

• To select a diverse class of highly motivated participants who represent the diversity of racial, ethnic, and socio-economic groups in Lee County, Alabama.
• To explore the diverse facets of Lee County’s government, business, economic development, health care, criminal justice, and other aspects of community life.
• To instill and nurture a sense of social responsibility in our youth.
• To provide opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds to meet and develop mutual understanding, respect, and trust.
• To offer participants opportunities for volunteer community involvement and service.
• To encourage our youth to find satisfying job opportunities so he/she will come home to Lee County, Alabama to live, learn, work, worship, play, raise his/her family.