Salinas, California is one of four STRYVE sites incorporating and adapting the YES program into their community-level violence prevention programs. The following is a Success Story developed for the STRYVE program and describes some of the challenges faced and solutions implemented by youth leaders … [Read more...]
YES Program Creates a Rap for a Packard Grant on Empathy
The YES leader and participants at Rancho Cielo, serving high risk youth and young adults, made this video about YES, featuring the students and their community project. The video is part of a grant application to the David and Lucile Packard Fund for their Building Vibrant Communities Fund, … [Read more...]
Youth Promote Peace in Portland
Youth participating the STRYVE YES program in Portland are making headlines. Their activities have included organizing a rally in response to recent violence, and painting a street mural. Next on the list is to build and distribute library boxes to neighborhoods to increase literacy. Here's some of … [Read more...]
Three Great Days in Portland
Amid the beautiful Oregon landscape, leaders of the CDC's four STRYVE sites, the CDC Foundation adaptation team, and advisors from the UM School of Public Health Youth Empowerment Solutions (YES) program met to discuss STRYVE’s use of and adaptations to the YES curriculum. This was a time of great … [Read more...]
YES Youth Organize Peaceful Protest in Salinas, CA
Last week, the community of Salinas, CA experienced two back to back police-involved shootings and there was a great deal of emotion in the community. On Wednesday, May 21, 2014, residents came out to protest the third officer-involved shooting of the year. Just down the street, middle school … [Read more...]
Building on Assets
In the Youth Empowerment Solutions (YES) program, we pride ourselves on teaching young people how to build on assets. We do this by teaching them about assets and liabilities through teacher instruction, exercises and activities. We then lead them on windshield tours and photovoice projects, … [Read more...]
Empowering Kids, Overcoming Violence
The MI-YVPC YES program is featured in the latest issue of Findings magazine. Marc Zimmerman and Susan Morrel-Samuels describe the program and violence as a public health issue in a special Findings Video Extra. http://youtu.be/3Pnfnt1Exnw The full Findings article is in … [Read more...]
A Place Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Have you ever wondered what a young person is thinking when they walk into an after school program? Putting myself in their shoes, I imagine getting out of 6-7 hours of school, where other than lunch, I have had little exercise or chance to move around and now I am about to begin your after school … [Read more...]
Connecting Youth with Policy Makers
Youth cannot vote, but their voices need to be heard. Youth are disproportionately affected by poverty and violence, yet they are largely absent from discussions of policies to address these problems. In Flint, Michigan, however, one policy maker sought the opinions of his young constituents and … [Read more...]
From White Board to Practice
Being a visual learner, using a white board or a scratch pad has become second nature to me. However, it seems as if most of my efforts or the efforts of my colleagues on the white board get erased a few meetings later, never to be seen again. It is because of this that the fact that I got to see … [Read more...]
