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Priscilla Steinmetz, The Bridge Teen Center’s co-founder and executive director, talks to<br />
volunteers April 22 as the Global Youth Service Day festivities begin. Photo submitted<br />
Bridge Teen Center takes part<br />
in Global Youth Service Day<br />
Jason Maholy<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Priscilla Steinmetz stood<br />
before more than 100 youths<br />
gathered in the main room at<br />
The Bridge Teen Center in<br />
Orland Park, and put out a<br />
call for volunteers who have<br />
specific skill sets.<br />
She needed clean freaks<br />
for one set of tasks, good<br />
communicators with long<br />
arms to comprise the “ladder<br />
crew,” and agile youths<br />
who are “controlled and very<br />
aware of their surroundings”<br />
to function as “runners” who<br />
would buzz between various<br />
work stations. And she wanted<br />
leaders to help keep everything<br />
organized and running<br />
at the optimum level.<br />
The youths, after all, had<br />
some 200 garbage bags<br />
containing thousands of<br />
pounds of clothes through<br />
which to sort in only three<br />
hours.<br />
With each request by<br />
Steinmetz, small groups<br />
weaved their way through<br />
the mass of bodies and<br />
“The thrift store has been a gamechanger.<br />
This is peers giving to<br />
peers, which is very powerful<br />
when they can effect change<br />
within their own group.”<br />
Priscilla Steinmetz — Bridge Teen Center cofounder<br />
and executive director<br />
joined their peers with similar<br />
abilities. Twenty minutes<br />
later, The Bridge was a bustling<br />
hive as the youths made<br />
their way through the garments<br />
and linens that will be<br />
sold at the nonprofit organization’s<br />
adjacent thrift store.<br />
The teens were at The<br />
Bridge the morning of April<br />
22 for Global Youth Service<br />
Day, which Bridge program<br />
associate Amanda Speakman<br />
defined as “the longest-running,<br />
largest youth-led service<br />
event in the world.”<br />
From April 21-23, millions<br />
of teens in more than 100<br />
countries were said to be engaged<br />
in community service<br />
projects, service learning and<br />
youth voice activities, all<br />
with the purpose of giving<br />
back to their respective communities.<br />
The celebration of young<br />
volunteers ties in perfectly to<br />
The Bridge’s overall mission<br />
of helping teens grow holistically,<br />
Speakman said. The<br />
proceeds from the eventual<br />
sales of the clothes will go<br />
toward funding The Bridge’s<br />
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