| Program Description | The Youth Voice and Narrative at Garfield High School Project (YVNG) is designed to provide media training and perspective cultivation to participating students and provide a venue for students themselves to speak their perspectives. Youth will determine their content and will have the support of journalists, mentors, experts in youth leadership development and University of Washington Communications expertise. Categories of discussion will include areas like: celebrating Garfield High School, youth views on the way violence is portrayed in news media, youth perspectives on youth incarceration, and other related topics. Youth will have an on-site school mentor, James Reese, helping to convene and develop their priorities. Participating youth will have significant participation in the planning process for the media event and will receive the media training. AHSHAY will also facilitate the convening of the audience for the youth voice event and students will help determine who this audience will be comprised of. AHSHAY and project support teams are committed to continuing to support these young people and the youth may choose to collaborate in planning further youth voice events. Students will be the main assessors of project success and will provide an evaluation of the planning process, the media training, the youth voice event, and the extent to which this project: added constructively to Garfield environs, afforded them skills in verbalizing their views, offered opportunities to develop leadership skills, promoted multigenerational collaboration, and helped them feel heard. |