Sparking Children’s Leadership
This September, PLTI is launching the Children's Leadership Training Institute (CLTI), where young minds aged 7-12 will learn essential civic and leadership skills.
Meet Cassandra Bruington and Jamie Kelsey, two PLTI graduates and our current CLTI teachers. Their passion for education and community engagement is sure to inspire your child.
Discover what they're most excited about as this new program launches this September!
What are you most excited about for CLTI?
“I’m excited to meet and empower the children and watch them grow right alongside their parents. I think the biggest take away from our training was to build relationships and community and to see the children as leaders coming into a space for facilitation and growth together. I’m excited to learn about what’s important to the kids and the projects that ignite their passions, gifts and intelligences. I also want to see the parents lean into the pride and joy of seeing their children thrive as community leaders now and in the future.”
“I’m excited and honored to be part of the first cohort of CLTI Kansas City. I love working directly with children and learning from them. Right about this time last year, I was beginning the PLTI journey with the rest of cohort 6 and thinking, “I wish there was something like this for my son! Why should he wait until he’s grown to realize the impact he can have?”
What are you most excited about for CLTI?
“It teaches our children to be curious about themselves and the way that they engage and impact the community. I’m really excited for CLTI to start in Kansas City and to see how it grows through word of mouth and collective impact. Our children will deeply impact legislation in Missouri and across the country. We will build their capacity to stretch themselves as leaders.
Over 88 parents are leading on boards and organizations throughout this city. Imagine if each of those parents has 1 to 3 children who are also leading their schools, classrooms and neighborhoods. Change is here through the children and their parents”
“PLTI helps parent leaders step into their full potential as leaders in the community and I am confident the children will exceed our wildest dreams with their limitless creativity and passion! Almost every community works toward improving itself for the sake of its children and now Kansas City will have the actual stakeholders, the children themselves, involved in those improvements not only for their own good, but those who come along after them.”
