Heart Based Language - Educating our Global Society Students
KEY WORDS: Change Agent.... Civic Advocacy.... Sense of Community.... Service Learning.... Strengths Based....
Solutions-Oriented.... Social Activism.... Youth/Adult Partnerships.... Vested Stakeholders....
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT - CIVIC LITERACY
Youth Voice youth leaders honoring slain Officer Chris Wilson at the Southeast Police Division. The Mid-City Police Division's partnership with City Heights youth in Youth Voice met with Officer Chris Wilson's family and gave them an autographed, framed picture of Officer Wilson.
Their youth/law enforcement partnership fosters positive relationship building and leadership skill set development.
Through critical thinking skill set developent, creating, designing, implementing, and evaluating sustainable Service Learning projects with an emphasis on Social Justice will impact policy change and organizational change. Youth being developed as the next generation of parents and civic leaders will profoundly assist in effectively transforming the punitive systems, including one's individual "belief system" from "fear based" to "heart based".
Increasing human and social capital, the children and youth, as equal partners and vested stakeholders, will impact the transformation of their communities to a safe, culture of caring.
Developing their own sense of self by having opportunities to be of value to others, their civic engagement and civic literacy reflects shared decision making and shared leadership.
Youth Voice youth leaders present before the SD City Council's Youth Commission on the reality of community violence and their perspective on youth/community partnerships focused on solutions.
Their civic engagement, in partnership with the Mid-City Police Division, is transforming sustainable change within their own lives, and others through their families, schools, and community.
4th & 5th grade Youth Leaders present before the SD City Council on Homelessness. Their specific aim on Social Justice and Human Rights was initated through their after school Youth Leadership program at Cherokee Point Elementary School.
The youth leaders' Think Tank on Homelessness centered on research in their inner city of the needs, present resources available, and focused on solutions.
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