CATHOLIC FORMATION: Youth & Young Adult Ministry

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• The Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry provides specialized resource and consultation services to parishes and Catholic schools of the diocese in youth and young adult ministry. To that end, the Catholic Youth Coalition (CYC) was established in 1977 as the umbrella for all diocesan efforts in "total youth ministry" with and for young people of high school age. Its three major dimensions are:
  • Leadership Training Camp
  • Local parish and Catholic High School youth groups
  • Annual Diocesan Youth Convention

• CYC Leadership Training Camp is held annually at Legendary Lodge to train youth, young adults, and youth ministers in a total vision of youth ministry. Participants are specially selected by their parishes or Catholic high schools for this week-long experience of Christian community aimed at enabling participants to share and celebrate their personal giftedness with and among their peers for the benefit of all.

• The CYC Diocesan Youth Convention brings together more than 500 youth and adults each year at Carroll College. Next year's convention will be held April 17-19, 2009.

• Search is an intense weekend experience of evangelization and catechesis for high school youth or college-age young adults. For more information at the respective level, contact your local parish or Catholic high school, or Catholic campus ministry at any of the colleges or universities in the diocese.

• World Youth Day, held every three years, is a meeting of youth from around the world with the Holy Father. WYD 2008 will be held in Sydney, Australia; plans for diocesan participation will be announced as they are developed.
  
  Official United States website: www.wyd2008.org

• NCYC and NCCYM Conferences are held in alternating years and supported by diocesan promotion and attendance. The National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC) is for all high school youth, and the National Catholic Conference for Youth Ministers is for adult youthworkers.

  NFCYM Website:www.nfcym.org/nccym

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