Submit Nominees For ILEAD Impact Awards By February 3 (Photo) - 01/29/26
Salem, Ore. – The deadline is nearing to submit nominees, individuals or groups, from Marion, Polk and Linn counties for the 2026 ILEAD Impact Awards. The awards will be presented at the ILEAD Youth Leadership Summit on March 7.
Submit your nominees by February 3.
ILEAD is an annual one-day Youth Leadership Summit for high schoolers living in the Mid-Willamette Valley. This free event is managed by the City of Salem's Safe and Healthy Communities Outreach – Opioid Prevention and coordinated by a planning committee of stakeholders alongside a youth committee. The mission is to encourage, empower and better equip teens to lead positive change in their lives, their schools and their community.
The ILEAD Impact Awards celebrate the great work being done in our community around youth leadership development and volunteerism, teen opportunity development, teen-to-teen advocacy and voice, and youth health and wellbeing focuses.
There are three award categories:
- the Youth Leader Impact Award,
- the Youth Program Impact Award
- the Adult Leader Impact Award.
Anyone in Marion, Polk or Linn county can submit nominations.
You can submit as many nominations as you wish. Click the link again if you have more than one to submit in the same category. Each selected nominee, group or individual, will receive an engraved medal.
Impact Awards are sponsored by the City of Salem - Opioid Prevention and Marion County Health and Human Services - Health Promotion and Prevention Services.
Online
Web pages: ILEAD Youth Leadership Summit and Summit Registration
Instagram: @ileadyouthsummit
Facebook: Facebook.com/ILEADoregon
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