YMCA of the Philippines
Laying the Foundation
Way back in the decade of the 60’s, leaders of the YMCA
of the Philippines conceived and established the Rizal
Youth Leadership Training Foundation
 To
restore honesty and integrity in
public service
 To carry out the objectives of training
future leaders along the virtues of
honesty, justice, excellence and love of
country
A training program was therefore conceived: the yearly
YMCA-Rizal Youth Leadership Training Institute, a
month long intensive study of Rizal and other heroes,
in addition to leadership skills development.
Birth of the Institute
• The institute was formed in 1961 marking the
centennial celebration of the nation’s foremost hero,
Dr. Jose P. Rizal, and the Golden Jubilee of the
YMCA of the Philippines
Pilot Institute
 The pilot institute was held in
1962 in Manila by a select group
of 15 University students trained
under a curriculum anchored
on honesty, justice, excellence
and love of country.
First Regular Institute
 In 1963, the first regular Institute was held in Dapitan
where Rizal lived while in exile.
 It was attended by 89 outstanding students coming from
all over the country.
 Scholars from this Institute now occupy top positions in
the public and private sectors
Moving On
 From historic Dapitan, the mobile
Institute moved from one historic
place to another, drawing together
top student leaders from the
country’s colleges and universities.
 In the process, the Institute has also
steadily grown with a pool of RYLTI
alumni – an expanding manpower
base that has proven essential to the
enthusiastic
participation
in
succeeding institutes
 Through the years, too, the Institute
curriculum has undergone some fine
tuning and enrichment in response to the
dynamic requirements of Philippine
society and to the challenges that
confront leaders in contemporary times,
but it still adhered to some constants – its
unchanging emphasis on honesty,
integrity and love of country.
Institute Closed
 With the governance and financial crisis that the
YMCA of the Philippines had undergone during the
mid 90’s, the institute was closed after its 29th batch in
1995. Simultaneously, the Foundation which provide
financial support to the said program was dissolved.
Revival of the Institute
 With the change of the management and leadership of
the YMCA of the Philippines in 2007, the Institute was
revived as a part of the YMCA Strengthening
processes.
 The institute has become a venue for training young
people to become transformational leaders not only
for the country but for the whole global community.
 The first revived institute gathered 12 Uni-Y leaders
and youth volunteers for the intensive 15-day training.
The trainees eventually became leaders and staff in
their respective local Associations.
Training
Objectives
 The institute is designed to produce a
pool of youth leaders equipped with
values, skills and knowledge to
effectively respond to the many
challenges and issues of the world
today.
 Specifically, it is envisioned to develop
youth leaders who, in their specific
spheres of influence, will have the
skills and abilities to:
 Model attitudes that affirm persons, as well as,
 Generate these in others,
 Turn conflicts into creative problem-solving situations,
 Balance personal and organizational objectives
 Evolve a systematic approach in managing task groups,
 Use a set of effective leadership behaviors in dealing
with human, natural and material resources,
 Initiate and manage purposive change efforts.
Program Components
 Perspective Setting
 Identity and Value Clarification
 Contemporary Philippine Situation
 Leadership Study Series
 The YMCA
 Program Development
 Community Exposure
 Development of Proposed Action
Key Contributions
 Conducted 35 leadership training institutes at various key
and historic places in the country, and creating a positive
impact on each community where the Institute is held.
 Graduated 1,401 top student leaders, many of whom , are now
holding leadership position in government, educational
institutions, welfare organizations, and business enterprises.
 Contributed significantly to the
awareness
of
colleges
and
universities nationwide the need to
inculcate leadership development
values and skills, as the result of the
yearly search and screening of
Institute scholar
 Develop a body of material relating to
youth leadership development in such
forms as workbooks, and other output
papers, lectures, speeches, curricula on
various
leadership
development
concerns, films and slides, community
profiles – that now form part of the
Institute documents.
 Developed a unique leadership development approach
that has been fine-tuned through the years, that
combines value clarification, issues awareness,
community exposures, global citizenship education and
leadership skills, distinct and apart from other leadership
development efforts.
 Spearheaded various action responses on issues
prevailing in the participants respective local
communities.
 Has resulted to partnership with NGOs and GOs in the
implementation of the action plan designed by the
participants.
We cannot always build
The future for our youth,
But we can build
Our youth for today
And for the future.