| Leadership Kitsap is a non-profit, volunteer organization that offers a year long educational program for existing and emerging community leaders in Kitsap County. Leadership Kitsap was founded with the purpose of developing community leaders in Kitsap County who will serve as catalysts for positive future change. One measure of a community's greatness is the caliber of its leaders. Leadership Kitsap is dedicated to training tomorrow's leaders and giving them the background, contacts and tools they will need to shape and direct our future.
Each year, Leadership Kitsap sponsors a ten-month program of educational seminars. These seminars consist of nine one-day Challenge Days, one two-day retreat and a Leadership Development Day. Participants also work in teams on wide-ranging community projects of their own design. The program begins in September and ends with a graduation ceremony in June of the following year.
Leadership Kitsap is designed to build upon a tradition of solid leadership in our community. With each graduating class, Leadership Kitsap increases the number of informed and vigorous civic volunteers who understand the needs of the community and are committed to meeting its challenges.
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For over 20 years, Leadership Kitsap service projects have helped to strengthen and transform the entire community. Each year, our service projects significantly impact the lives of thousands of Kitsap County residents.
Explore the positive impact of Leadership Kitsap service projects through our Community Impact Map.
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The number of homeless teens in Kitsap County has increased by more than 30 percent in just a year. Most of them are no longer even try to attend school. – Dave Fredericks; Director of Coffee Oasis LEARN MORE >
Dropouts are more likely to apply for and receive public assistance than graduates of high school; Dropouts comprise a disproportionate percentage of the nation's prison and death row inmates. 82% of prisoners in America are high school dropouts. - National Dropout Prevention Center / Network LEARN MORE >
Kitsap County, like the State of Washington and Nation, is aging rapidly. Today, 1 in 7 residents of Kitsap County is over the age of 65. In less than 10 years, that number will grow to 1 in 4. As a community/society, getting older is too often synonymous with “decline,” “loss” and “the end.” - Long Term Care Alliance of Kitsap County LEARN MORE >
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