The High School Retreat Is Over- Now What? Practical Follow-up Programs for Small, Medium, and Large Schools

by Chris Miller

Overview

The scene is very familiar—Teenagers become excited about what they learned on the retreat and promise to take this knowledge and bring about change within themselves and the community. After a few weeks, it’s all forgotten. The High School Retreat is Over--Now What? Practical Follow-up programs for Small, Medium, and Large Schools addresses this problem by providing surveys for staff and students to develop a retreat program unique to the school. Twenty proven activities that reaffirm the commitments on the retreat covering individual, group, and leadership building provide the basis for meaningful projects and activities. In addition, chapters focus on model retreat programs for small, medium, and large schools and describe retreat programs in fifty high schools throughout the United States.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940165077692
Publisher:	Robert Miller
Publication date:	11/04/2021
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	844 KB

About the Author

I am a religious studies teacher at a Catholic High School in the San Francisco Bay Area. Most recently, I worked for Catholic Charities Santa Clara County supporting the Community Action Poverty Simulation program as well as serving as the youth and young adult coordinator at a 5,000 member family parish in San Jose, CA. Prior to this position, I taught theology and served as director of campus ministry at a Catholic boarding school in Connecticut. Also,I worked as the Director of Youth Ministry at a Catholic parish in Palo Alto and worked as a middle school teacher in Gilroy and San Jose, CA.
I am currently enrolled in a Master of Science program in Clinical Psychology at Notre Dame de Namur University and a Graduate Diploma in Canon Law program through Saint Paul University. I graduated with a Doctoral Degree in Education at the University of San Francisco, focusing research on the Kairos Retreat experience in Jesuit High Schools in the United States. In addition, I am a graduate of Santa Clara University, where I received a Bachelors’ degree in History, a California Teaching Credential, a Masters Degree in Education, and a Masters Degree in Pastoral Ministries, Also, I am an alum of Boston College where I completed a post-masters program in youth and young adult faith.
I am a member of the Los Gatos Morning Rotary and served as an elected trustee for the Los Gatos Union School District for 8 years. In addition, I am the immediate past president of the Los Gatos High School Alumni Association as well as a former member of the board of directors of the Los Gatos Youth Park and A Place For Teens, a non-profit teen center. Currently, I am the co-chair of the Council on Mental Illness, sponsored by the National Catholic Partnership on Disability, a founding member of the Diocese of San Jose Mental Health Ministry Network, a member of the California State Mental Health Policy Workgroup, a member of the NAMI National FaithNet Steering Committee, and a member of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention’s Faith Communities Task Force.