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- EIN 13-3047555
- (212) 279-0708
- 242 W 38th St 6th Floor New York NY 10018-5860 USA
- www.youthcomm.org
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Causes: Arts & Culture, Children & Youth, Education, Literacy, Printing & Publishing, Remedial Reading & Encouragement, Youth Development
Mission: Youth communication provides powerful, teen-written storiesand professional development to help educators and youth workers engage struggling youth their literacy-rich training model helps teachers, after-school workers, counselors, and other professionals to connect with the teens they serve and build their social and emotional learning skills.
Programs: Youth communication trains teachers and out-of-school-time staff to use its story based curricula to strengthen the social-emotional learning competencies and literacy skills of struggling young people. Each curriculum consists of an anthology of nonfiction stories from the organizations teen writing program and a 300+-page leader guide. The guides contain read aloud activities, discussion guides, writing exercises, role plays, and other lesson plans. The staff who attend our trainings also improve their group facilitation skills and come away with a new understanding of the challenges facing young people and the strengths they possess to meet those challenges. Youth communication also distributes two teen-written magazines that hundreds of staff use each year to improve the literacy and social-emotional skills of thousands of youth.
youth communication runs intensive nonfiction writing programs for 15-19-year-olds in new york city. Participants are mentored by a professional editor to write personal stories about their own lives and reported stories about issues that affect young people. Their stories are published in one of our two award-winning magazines, ycteen (formerly nyc: new youth connections) or represent: the voice of youth in care, which are read by thousands of teens in print and online.