Partner: Confronting Concerns
Student Collaborator: Fernanda L. Ferreira
Organization Collaborators: Kathleen Kanet & Tene Howard
For the past two years the Network for Peace through Dialogue has worked with youth in Harlem helping them to identify what their concerns are and to understand their causes and to seek solutions for them. Now in its third year, in an effort to inspire great leadership of youth, the Confronting Concerns project focus on training the 4 youth leaders in facilitation and workshop development so that they will move into roles as workshop facilitators for other youth.
Project Description
The video project I developed for the Confronting Concerns Youth Program was about the four members of the Leadership Institute. I conducted individual interviews with each one of the members, in order to ask them what made them choose to go to the Leadership Institute. How does that affect the way they interact with their families and school peers. How the Leadership Institute helps them deal with conflict. And how has the Leadership Institute helped them to make a difference in the world. I also wrote an article for the Spring 2008 Newsletter of the Network for Peace through Dialogue describing the video, and how delightful I felt working with the Collaborators of the Confronting Concerns Youth Program.