Youth Leadership St. Johns (YLSJ) is a community-led youth leadership development program of UF Health St. Johns (formerly Flagler Health +/Flagler Hospital). This competitive program, which is offered in many communities throughout the country, is well-regarded by colleges/universities when making admission decisions, so we urge you to give it serious consideration.

The program is held monthly during the student’s junior year from Sept. 2024 – April, 2025. The program will share techniques for becoming an effective leader. It will also include monthly visits to various businesses in our county to teach the participants about how communities work and where they may wish to lend their skills in the future as an employee or volunteer. Each month’s program will have a different focus such as Law & Government, Business, Arts and Leisure, Social Services, Education and Healthcare. Twenty-two sophomore students will be selected county-wide this spring for this program. The program will be held during the junior year.

If this type of program is of interest to you, please read the YLSJ 2024-2025 Information document (download here) for details about the application and program details.

The online application is due February 15, 2025.

• Applications will be evaluated by community volunteers by February 25, 2024. Finalists will move on to the live interview.
• Finalists will have live interviews (15 minutes) on Thursday, March 28, 2024 between 5:30 – 7:00 pm at the UF Health St. Johns Care Connect office located at 100 Whetstone Place, Ste. 303, St. Augustine. (Near UF Health St. Johns.)
• An Orientation for the twenty-two students selected and their parents/guardians will be held on Thursday, April 25, 2024, 7 – 8:30 pm at the Emergency Communications and Training Center, 100 EOC Drive, near SR 16 and I-95.

Dates for next year’s programs are in the Information Sheet, along with the eligibility requirements sophomores must have to be considered.

We look forward to hearing from those sophomores for whom this program holds interest.

Best regards,
Youth Leadership St. Johns