empowering young people to take action - online
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Empowering Young People to Connect, Collaborate and Take Action - presentation on PugetSoundOff.oor and Civic Voice Curriculum. By David Keyes, City of Seattle and Chris Tugwell YMCA, for NCDD.org 2012 conferenceTRANSCRIPT
EMPOWERING YOUNG PEOPLE TO CONNECT, COLLABORATE, & TAKE ACTION
- David Keyes, City of Seattle- Chris Tugwell, YMCA of Greater Seattle
AGENDA
- Introductions
- Icebreaker
- Project overview
- Group discussion
- Questions
- Evaluation
How do youth get heard?
GOAL – YOUTH DIGITAL COMMONS
City
• Learn to do effective electronic civic engagement
• Support youth engagement & tech literacy
• Bring government to youth
• Comcast grant negotiated in franchising
YMCA
• Youth empowerment
• Engage in emerging trends
UW Center for Communication
• Civics: Becoming Citizens support
• Civic engagement research
VISION & PROGRESSION - TECHNOLOGY
BASIC SOFTWARE SKILLS
Ten Key
Digital Arts
VISION & PROGRESSION - RESEARCH
Related research at -www.engagedyouth.org-www.ccce.com.washington.edu-Newer partnership with Microsoft Research
• Focus groups with 180 youth• Research on other models• Decision to target 13-21• Summer youth design program• Drupal platform built• Lots of dialogue and deliberation!
Leading to...
VISION & PROGRESSION – PugetSoundOff.org
VISION & PROGRESSION – CONTENT GROWS
VISION & PROGRESSION – CURRICULUM
VISION & PROGRESSION – VALUES
"The mission of Puget SoundOff is to provide youth with a forum for discussion, artistic expression, and action as a way to empower and encourage youth to have a strong voice.”
• Let youth drive as much as possible
• Integrate online and offline training
• Needs to fun and connect to causes
• Debate is good
• Has to be multimedia
• Don’t try to compete with Facebook, etc.
• Keep content & conversations public
• Partner with other organizations and schools
• Promote development of speech (incl revised postings)
• Design for diversity of speakers (via partners, tools, training, design/content promotion)
VISION & PROGRESSION – EMPOWERMENT Connect with community, Connect with gov
QUARTER 5
• 125 participated in digital literacy trainings (unduplicated)
• 592 participated in digital literacy trainings (duplicated)
• 1381 total training hours
• Averaged 173 open lab visits/week
• 111 hours of open lab each week
In order to expand and grow capacity of other YMCA branches, nonprofit organizations, classroom teachers, we began running programs, fine tuning and packaging our resources and activities into curriculum guides we call Civic Voice Curriculum programs.
YTECH’s Civic Voice Curriculum programs are project-based, service learning guides that explore community issues.
Young people use digital media to tell stories, share their voice and develop action projects to spark dialogue and initiate change in their communities.
YTech: digital inclusion + civic engagement programs
TODAY – CIVIC VOICE CURRICULUM
TODAY – CIVIC VOICE CURRICULUM
TECH INTEGRATION
RECAP – CIVIC VOICE CURRICULUM
WHAT’S NEXT – ONLINE IMPROVEMENTS
WHAT’S NEXT CURRICULUM
Questions & feedback on CVC curriculum?
If progression of outreach and engagement is:
How do digital natives make most impact? How do we best facilitate people & tech?
• Building awareness • Mobilizing and connecting• Deliberation and development of solutions• Action that impacts decision makers & community• Implementation• Feedback
IMPACT
I’m sorry that I put my family through seeing me smoke, steal and go to jail. This is why I wanted to help with the Night Out, so I could show my little cousin and the younger generation to be good and stay out of trouble.”
-- Yao
“When communities come together to fight for a change it is possible to make a difference when multiple people stand up for what is right.”
-- Marleisha
500 young people served as of 3rd Quarter 2012
MORE THAN 3300 users on PSO.org
GET INVOLVED | JOIN US
Learn more: Visit youthdigitalmedia.com to preview other guides and watch media created using out guides
Run a program: Purchase a curriculum guide by contacting Roni Ayalla, [email protected] Guides are $10 each.
Western Washington & Greater New York City areas: YTech will potentially run a Civic Voice Curriculum program at your organization or train your staff on our curriculum model.
Contact: YMCA | Chris Tugwell | [email protected] | 425-445-5860 CITY OF SEATTLE | David Keyes | [email protected] | 206-386-9759NYC | Roni Ayalla | [email protected] | 206-250-2456
Thank You