The Appalachian Mountain Teen Project works collaboratively with youth, parents, and educators to strengthen self-esteem, foster resilience, enrich opportunities, and develop stable, secure relationships in the lives of young people who face difficult life circumstances.

We strive to increase family and community knowledge and understanding of healthy youth development through education and advocacy.

Thought of the Week

"....But there's another part to the shining the city; the part where some people can't pay their mortgages, and most young people can't afford one; where students can't afford the education they need, and middle-class parents watch the dreams they hold for their children evaporate.

In this part of the city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, more and more people who need help but can't find it. Even worse: There are elderly people who tremble in the basements of the houses there. And there are people who sleep in the city streets, in the gutter, where the glitter doesn't show. There are ghettos where thousands of young people, without a job or an education, give their lives away to drug dealers every day. There is despair, Mr. President, in the faces that you don't see, in the places that you don't visit in your shining city.

In fact, Mr. President.... this nation is more a "Tale of Two Cities" than it is just a "Shining City on a Hill....."

....We can make it all the way with the whole family intact, and we have more than once. Ever since Franklin Roosevelt lifted himself from his wheelchair to lift this nation from its knees... all those struggling to build their families and claim some small share of America...

....We must make the American people hear our "Tale of Two Cities." We must convince them that we don't have to settle for two cities, that we can have one city, indivisible, shining for all of its people...." - Governor Mario Cuomo, excerpts from 1984 speech

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Letter From the Director

Family Skate night has

been rescehduled for

Saturday March 17

from 4 - 7:30 at the

Wolfeboro Ice Arena.

We encourage AMTP

alumni and past

participants as well

as current participants

and families to attend.