Mission Statement
Mission of the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership
The mission of Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership, founded in 1958, is:
- To seek out, recognize, and reward leadership potential in promising high school sophomores.
- To give young leaders a better understanding and appreciation of America's economic system, our democratic process, and to encourage their active participation in designing their world of tomorrow.
- To encourage and assist members of this formative age group in their quest for self-identification and self-development.
- To stimulate opportunities for these young people to demonstrate their leadership abilities.
- To enhance learning and understanding.
- To provide face-to-face interaction with distinguished leaders in business, industry, education, science and government to the end that they will better understand the American Incentive System; our democratic process and the need to seek out and make informed judgments based on facts.
- To focus on the prevailing social, economic and political realities that they will have in their future.
- To foster greater understanding of the American Incentive System among youth of other countries.
- To activate the concept of world peace through greater understanding on the part of the youth of the world through interaction with youth of other countries.
