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t's no picnic being a teen-ager. Everybody has an

opinion about how you should behave, how you should

dress, what you should do with your life. Adults are

never around when you want them — and always around
when you don't.

If you read the papers, you know that being a teen-ager can

be scary. And, if you love a teen-ager, you may be scared
too.

Luckily there's an organization that knows what teen-agers

are about. It's been around so long that parents — and

grandparents — still have their membership cards.

B'nai B'rith Youth Organization — known as BBYO — gives

youngsters a chance to pick up good Jewish values, to be

among other good kids, to mature and learn to lead

through activities like Jewish heritage nights and parent-teen

dialogues and community service projects.

As a constituent agency of the Jewish Federation, BBYO

gets Annual Campaign funding to sustain operations and

strengthen its many programs, serving more than 1,000 kids

in 36 chapters throughout the state of Michigan.

It's true that growing up is no walk in the park.

But BBYO makes the walk a whole lot more fun.

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