Bay Area Youth: Two Stories, Two Victories
1. West Oakland Youth Win $5 Million for Teen Center: This spring construction will begin in largely underserved West Oakland, transforming an abandoned church into a long-awaited teen center. The …
Repositioning Youth as Researchers Rather than the “Researched”…
“….[It] shifts the practice of researching “on youth” to “with youth”–a position that stands in sharp contrast to the current neo-liberal constructions of youth as dangerous, disengaged, blind consumers who …
Documenting the Khmer Youth Experience
Khmer Girls for Action works primarily with young girls of Southeast Asian descent in the Long Beach area in Southern California. Most are from low income, immigrant and/or refugee families …
Youth Knowledge for the People
An Intensive Training Camp on Social Justice Youth-led Research …with Youth in Focus. On March 7th, 2009, youth organizers from a variety of organizations in the East Bay and San …
YouthAction
The DataCenter has been providing training support to YouthAction (Albuquerque, NM) conferences annually since 2002. This year, in addition to facilitating workshops, staff set up a “research kiosk” where conference …
Common Roots
The DC’s Youth Strategy and Environmental Justice Projects has collaborated to conduct annual workshops on popular education participatory research skills for the youth leaders of Common Roots since 2004 in …
Youth Groups Building Alternative Vision for Public Education
The DataCenter has partnered with Sisters in Action for Power (Portland, OR) since 2002 to provide research and analysis support for their efforts to address local affects of privatization. Their …