All of the participants were led through a series of three seminars which assisted them in setting realistic goals for the program and in writing strategic action plans to implement upon return home. In writing their action plans, the participants opted to work together with students from their city to develop joint plans to which each person would contribute. Each plan responds to four basic questions: What is the goal? What are the action steps? What obstacles are in the way? What resources are available? In total, the group came up with six separate projects - here are the results of the action planning session:

1. Meet with the mayor of Bihac - Zlatan has a meeting with the mayor already scheduled for when he returns. Iva and Andrea will accompany him to the meeting. They will talk to the mayor and tell him about their trip and their desire to create a student activist group at their schools.
2. Meet with the school principals
3. Find one or two teachers who can help at each school
4. Get Mirijana and Sonja to be in touch with the teachers at our schools so they can learn more about what we have experienced and seen in the US
5. Have a meeting with students and teachers to share ideas and ask other students what new changes would they suggest and/or what new ideas could be introduced to improve our schools
6. Choose one project and start working on it

1. Time- all teachers are very busy with other things in their lives
2. Teachers may not take us seriously
3. Other kids may be jealous of our experiences in the US

1. Program Materials
2. Annie Pilatsek
3. Karen Williams
4. Kathy from PH comes to our school and meets with our students and teachers
5. Internet connection with PH and other group members

1. Educate our schools and friends by organizing a meeting at school about our experiences in the US
2. Organize a meeting of interested people and brainstorm new ideas about projects we want to do in hospitals
3. Find support from adults and students for our plans
4. Meet with hospital officials to learn about projects we can organize that will be helpful to the patients
5. Develop a list of projects that we want to do in the hospital (bringing flowers, toys, food, newspapers, pets, etc)

1. Student support - what if nobody comes to our meeting?
2. Hospital support - what if they are not interested in our help?
3. Lack of time

1. Friends
2. Teachers
3. Parents
4. School principals
5. Project Harmony
6. Karen Williams
7. Internet connection with people we have met
8. Red Cross
9. Medical Schools in our area

1. Talk to my principal
2. Talk to students and try to get them interested
3. Call the first meeting to see who can be involved
4. Share our ideas with some of the parents and teachers

1. Some teachers are not interested
2. Too little interest in changing the educational system

1. Harwood Students can tell us how they organized student government in their school
2. Principal of the school
3. Parents and teachers who are interested

1. Organize a group of students and teachers and introduce them to peer mediation
2. Find students who will participate as mediators
3. Develop a budget for some essential things (room rental, papers, materials)
4. Be in communication via the Internet with Fenway peer mediation trainers

1. School Principal
2. Some of the teachers

1. Our cultural community center
2. Students who are open to new ideas
3. Mr. Rhodes from Fenway School
4. Francine Locker from Fenway School
5. Project Harmony staff
6. Peer mediation activists from Fenway School
7. Karen Williams

1. Tell people about the project and develop a volunteer group
2. Consult with experts (psychologists, etc)
3. Gather physical resources (space, phone, phone lines, etc)
4. Publicize the project and develop publicity materials
5. Enlist support for the project

1. Lack of money
2. Maybe teachers will not be interested
3. Lack of phone lines

1. Experts
2. Youth Center (we can ask them for phone lines)
3. USAID may have money for this project
4. Telephone company
5. Big companies

1. Share my experiences on this program and the ideas of the Youth Leadership Program with my colleagues and the administration of my school (informally at first)
2. Invite US participants and PH staff to BiH as guest teachers and students
3. Organize workshops and training for other BiH students and teachers taught by BiH alumni

1. Power is centralized
2. There is great resistance to any type of change

1. Project Harmony and local NGO's
2. Governmental organizations in BiH
3. Potential funding - maybe the US Embassy can help?
4. Harwood and Fenway connections