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Brick Rebuilding

Submitted by akfrimpo on Tue, 2008-04-08 16:40.

Project Description

Brick Rebuilding is a harm reduction-based prevention intervention model that transforms the knowledge given to Black and Latino adolescents (aged 14-18), who live in a disadvantaged socioeconomic city, Newark, NJ, on substance use and sexual intercourse. The model seeks to transform this knowledge by providing adolescents with the tools to make responsible choices by: giving them factual science-based information on STIs and potentially harmful substances; reevaluating how addiction and STIs affects a young person’s life; providing a comprehensive understanding of drug policies and the legal consequences of drug use; and emphasizing safety and well-being in situations involving drug use and sexual intercourse in an urban environment. By the end of the prevention intervention, participants will demonstrate (1) behavior change towards drug use and unprotected sex to have safety as a priority in maintaining well-being (2) an increased knowledge and application of safe sex practices and (3) an increased understanding of the effects/impact of substance use, and harm reduction strategies to mitigate dangers of drug use and unprotected sex.

Vital Stats

Started On:8/6/07Ended On:N/A
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 Related Cause: Healthy Living

Category: Community Building

Tags: Youth Empowerment HIV/AIDS substance abuse drug policy

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Just Us Conference

Submitted by kajensen08 on Mon, 2008-03-31 21:06.

Project Description

The "Just Us" Conference is a weekend conference, including various arts-based workshops for young adults, mainly high school students, primarily located in the Hudson Valley. The workshops and conference work towards youth empowerment through the arts, as well as guidance in how to create and form youth groups, and getting college scholarships, for example. The conference this year will also end with visits to college campuses. Because of the length of the conference, all three basic meals are included in the activities of the day.

Vital Stats

Started On:May 3, 2008Ended On:May 3, 2008
People Involved:15People Impacted:50
Money Raised:N/A  

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The "Just Us" Conference needs involvement in the helping to plan the event as well as individuals/groups to attend. To start a similar project would entail making contacts with arts/performance organizations willing to lead workshops as well as youth groups and youth organizations to attend.

 Related Cause: The Arts

Category: Arts & Culture

Tags: rights awareness Media spoken word Community Building drama dance video production Youth Empowerment

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Breakthrough Parent Empowerment Conference

Submitted by george.fournier on Mon, 2008-01-07 04:13.

Project Description

Breakthrough Fort Lauderdale is a non-profit organization devoted to serving the educational needs of talented, but under-resourced middle school students in the Fort Lauderdale area. We provide extra schooling on weekends and during the summer to our wonderful students. We are also a branch of the national Breakthrough Collaborative (www.breakthroughcollaborative.org). After a few years of involvement several volunteers and the directors noticed that there was an apparent lack in the help being provided to our students, namely that the parents weren't being educated thoroughly on the opportunities available to their kids. Several volunteers banded together to organize a conference to educate the parents with experts in several fields relating to adolescence, educational opportunities, etc. in order to fill this void. The conference is scheduled for Feb. 9, 2008 from 9 - 12. We hope that the approximately 150 parents will be in attendance in order to further the educational interests of their kids.

Vital Stats

Started On:September 2007Ended On:Continuing
People Involved:5People Impacted:+/- 150
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E-mail with your info. We'd love to have some help!

 Related Cause: Education

Category: Education & Environment

Tags: Breakthrough Summerbridge Youth Empowerment education

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New Orleans Youth Library Project

Submitted by rissa23ja on Thu, 2008-01-03 18:25.


Project Description

This was a project aimed to create a self-managed library in New Orleans that would inspire youth ages 5 thru 15 affected by Hurricane Katrina to excel academically through reading and writing. It was also a project aimed to encourage community development, parental involvement in the educational lives of their children, and inspire others to continue in the rebuilding efforts in New Orleans. The project took a few months of planning, but after a summer's dedication, waht resulted was an over 900-book free library open to the youth, family, and friends of the Cutoff Community Center in Lower Algiers. All of the books underwent an extensive organizational process, as they were all alphabetized, labeled according to grade level, organized, and shelved accordingly. All of the information was then manually imputed in an electronic catalog to ensure that the library functioned similar to a typical public library.
This project was created not simply a way to aid in the Katrina Relief efforts, but it was an effort to specifically address the needs of a group of urban youth plagued by economic inaccessibility, drugs, and violence. The Cutoff Youth Library provides a productive and educational outlet for youth that otherwise seek sports and the streets as an outlet.

Vital Stats

Started On:March 10, 2007Ended On:August 10, 2007
People Involved:20People Impacted:300
Money Raised:$2900  

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Continue supporting the Cutoff Youth Library Project by donating funds or equipment for high-quality computers for the library. The library is in need of a computer lab so that the kids are able do their homework that requires a computer and/or the internet.
We are also trying to develop a tutoring program at the center, so we are in need of college students in the New Orleans area who are willing to donate their time to tutor the Cutoff Youth on a weekly basis.
For other projects like this, it is important to first engage with the youth and the surrounding community. From there, you can build from ideas and needs that specifically come from the community with whom you are working.
For more information on the Cutoff Youth Library, you can contact my organization at

Related Cause: Katrina Relief

Category: Community Building

Tags: New Orleans community development inspiring fun educational Youth Empowerment

Project Updates:

Updates coming soon! We are currently working on creating a computer library and implementing a pen-pal program with the Cutoff youth as well as the possible tutoring program.

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Student Movement for Real Change

Submitted by sgarlic4 on Thu, 2007-12-13 21:19.


Project Description

Student Movement for Real Change (SMRC) empowers young people to improve health and education in neglected regions of the world. By engaging students in chapters on college campuses, hosting conferences, leading service trips, coordinating an international pen-pal project that includes domestic tutoring, and managing international development project, SMRC provides students a vehicle to make real change in developing communities worldwide. SMRC is currently building schools and sports fields in rural South Africa, constructing a water and sanitation project in rural Kenya, and connecting students in the United States and South Africa and Kenya through its Joining Hands Pen Pal project. Find out more at www.StudentMovementUSA.org.

Vital Stats

Started On:September 15, 2001Ended On:Ongoing
People Involved:400+People Impacted:5000+
Money Raised:$70,000  

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  1. Learn more about the issues
  2. Start a chapter of SMRC
  3. Establish Joining Hands Pen-Pal project at a local school and your university
  4. Join SMRC on our next service trip to South Africa
  5. Help fundraise for our development projects
 Related Cause: Global Extreme Poverty

Category: Global Impact

Tags: Youth Empowerment leadership international development health education developing world Africa

Project Updates:

Kenya Water Project: SMRC is implementing a water and sanitation project in Kayafungo, Kenya. SMRC will extend freshwater pipelines 13 km across one of the most arid regions in Kenya to bring water to over 30,000 people, multiple schools and the region’s primary health clinic. In addition, SMRC will conduct health and hygiene workshops and increase latrine coverage by 25% to improve sanitation and decrease the spread of disease.

Schools and Sports Fields in South Africa: SMRC plans to develop sports fields at two schools in the Manyeleti Community of Mpumalanga. This project will directly impact the entire community. Sites identified for field construction include Mdluli High School and Manyangana High School, which will reach 3,000 students and community members. SMRC has already constructed 4 classrooms at Mahlathi Primary School and built two libraries.
Joining Hands Pen Pal Project: Joining Hands Pen-Pal Project (JHPP) seeks to link South African students with American students through means of a letter-writing pen-pal program. The program incorporates an tutoring component in which college students tutor and mentor elementary students domestically as they engage in an international cultural exchange.
Service Trips to Rural South Africa: SMRC leads over 20 university students each summer to live and work in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. Students spend the first week and a half in Cape town and Johannesburg in training sessions, two weeks hosting an Education, Health and Recreation Camp that provides courses on arts & crafts, drama and theater, and sports for children of the village and two weeks teaching primary school students (3rd to 7th grade) basic reading, writing, and speaking English curriculum, math and science classes, and assisting teachers in the life skills course.

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Digital Youth Leadership

Submitted by ToneTunes on Fri, 2007-07-13 23:21.

Project Description

In our Digital Youth Leadership program we plan to help save the youth in New Haven by introducing them to the digital world. We plan to create workshops that help them understand who they are and the people around them and that the kids can be comfortable with themselves instead of becoming a media or public standard. These workshops will include creative writting, Open disscussions, digital creations, picture taking and an athletic component. We will also do an interactive interview component to help the students identify presentation do's and dont's by showing them clips of themselves and others and how the public will react to the delivery of there different personas. We hope to provide some type of incentive for the students. We have been provided with a location ( King/Robinson school in New HAven CT) but we need a lot of supplies to make our venture enjoyable to the age groups we plan on working with.

Vital Stats

Started On:September 20th 2007 Ended On:We hope to expand for years to come
People Involved:7People Impacted:25 or more
Money Raised:$250  

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To get involved with our program all you need is to contact me Anthony Draper via e-mail and have a need to make an impact in your peers and sub-peers lives

 Related Cause: School Dropouts

Category: Community Building

Tags: Youth Empowerment Savint the youth Self love Self identification respecting others

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