We've gathered together some fantastic activists and scholars to propose a project for the Digital Media and Learning Competition - Project:Connect Summer Youth Programming. Under the leadership of Dr. Jasmine McNealy, we're seeking funding to support a jobs for youth program starting in early July of this year.
Entitled CKCPJ 'Be Brave: Peace is Possible' Youth Leadership and Digital Media Program, the proposed program evolves from a conversation begun by the CKCPJ Youth Services Initiative. The program focuses on the orientation and training in the appropriate use of digital media for creative digital storytelling by youth aged 13-17 from Lexington’s most underserved neighborhoods. Trainings under the supervision of Dr. McNealy, a digital media and mass communications law expert, occur in the East 7th Street Center. CKCPJ’s program matches with the goals of the East 7th Street Center: “to motivate children to learn, help them develop self-confidence and self-expression, and encourage them to take on new challenges.”
The youth accepted into the program would work with Dr. McNealy, Lexington United trainers and CKCPJ volunteer trainers to develop leadership and digital media skills. CKCPJ will (if funded by Project:Connect Summer Youth Program) pays the youth a wage to learn these career/college readiness skills and to begin to teach their peers the following skills:
- create digital media with ethnographic-autobiographical methods; articulate the ethics of digital storytelling and privacy rights;
- use collaboration, peaceful negotiation or other intervention strategies in dangerous settings, and conflict resolution; and,
- effective use of public transportation, civic organizations/agencies and other community resources/services in Lexington.
At the end of the six weeks program, the youth will have produced a compilation of digital stories that creatively express their everyday lives. Dr. McNealy will preside over a celebratory event with parents, representatives from local government and NGOs, and the local press. This culminating event will take place at The Plantory, a collaborative working space situated in Lexington’s East End neighborhood for grassroots activists.
Sound good? We need your help during the open voting period. Visit the project page:
CKCPJ "Be Brave: Peace is Possible" Youth Leadership and Digital Media Program
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