Year Two NATIONAL YOUTH INSTITUTE · 2016. 1. 14. · SOUTH CENTRAL YOUTH INSTITUTE • LOS ANGELES, CA NATIONAL YOUTH INSTITUTE NEWSLETTER • 7 YOUTHWEINGART YMCA WELLINESS & AQUATIC

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NEWSLETTERVOLUME 2

ISSUE 1JAN 2013

LONG BEACH, CA • ANAHEIM, CA • AZUSA, CA • BERKELEY, CA • EAST LA, CA • EAST PALO ALTO, CA • RAPID CITY, SD • SANTA ANA, CA • SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA • SOUTH CENTRAL LA, CA

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NATIONAL YMCA YOUTH INSTITUTE • 525 EAST 7TH STREET • LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA 90813 • (562) 624-5474 • (562) 624-5469

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• BOB CABEZA, Vice President of Community Development

email [email protected]• LES PETERS, Executive Director of Youth Institute

email [email protected]

• BOBBY KLEIN, Operations Director

email [email protected]• EDDIE GARDINER, College Readiness Director

email [email protected]• RON UNG, Logistics Director


• LEO SALCIDO, Senior Art Director of Change Agent Productions


• DANIEL MEZA, Associate Art Director Change Agent Productions


“It all started around a campfire. The fire spread to the Youth Institute in Long Beach. Then the fire spread to East Palo Alto and South Central and East Los Angeles. Now it is a blaze in Berkeley, Azusa, Santa Ana and Anaheim. The blaze has gone national and is strong in Rapid City South Dakota and Cambria. It is the fire of unbridled youth spirit, creativity, passion and leadership. It is the fire of infinite possibility. It is white hot and spreading globally. The Youth Institute is coming to a city near you! Be ready. Your young people are hungry for a chance to change their lives and change their world!’

We are embarking on another year of the National Youth Institute movement and it has never been more exciting. We have at least eight NEW YMCA’s that are going to be starting Youth Institute’s this summer from across the country and more then one internation-ally! We are hosting the First Ever National Youth Institute Conference in Cambria CA from March 10-13, 2013. There participants will learn about all facets of the Youth Institute. It is designed for professionals who want to learn more before they make a decision to start a Youth Institute in their YMCA or agency. It is also designed for Youth Developers to get ideas of how to improve their existing Youth Programs. At $375 for meals, lodging and program, it is a huge value added conference!

So sign up today because spots are filling up fast. To register just sign into this website: www.regonline.com/nyicAnd for more information about the conference call Bobby Klein at 562-624-5477 or E-mail him at [email protected]

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YOUTHINSTITUTE

By:BOB CABEZA

Vice President of Community Development &Youth Institute Founder

ANAHEIM YOUTH INSTITUTE • ANAHEIM, CA

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After a successful summer program, the Anaheim Family YMCA opened its Youth Institute lab at Loara High School this past October. The youth from the sum-mer visited the lab and kicked off the upcoming year round program. Program supervisors Jon Abbas and Alex Chung laid out plans for the upcoming year and students signed up for projects.

Youth Institute participants Michael Garcia and Maya Weaver helped film Anaheim Family YMCA’s Youth & Government’s Bill Hearing Night. Garcia and Weaver filmed the night as delegates presented their bills to

a group of panelists. The skills they learned during the summer program helped them document the event.

In December, Amber Hernandez and Evelin Gutierrez led a Basic Digital Literacy & Broadband Adoption class at the Youth Institute lab. They taught their rela-tives about basic computers skills and set up email ac-counts. The Youth Institute is gearing up to teach more classes in the coming weeks.

The biggest project Anaheim Youth Institute is currently working on is an anti-bullying PSA for National Asso-

ciation to Advance Fat Acceptance. Evelin G., Amber H., and Maritza G. are currently in pre-production, creating a story about a teenager dealing with bullying because of their size. It is an honor for the Youth Institute participants to work on this project for its positive message and potential to reach a diverse audience.

This is an exciting time for the Anaheim Fam-ily YMCA Youth Institute program and the participants cannot wait to work on their projects!

Anaheim Family YMCA’s Youth Institute Lab Opens

by ALEX CHUNG, YI Director

SOUTH CENTRAL YOUTH INSTITUTE • LOS ANGELES, CA

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YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES

Elenilsen L.: Through It AllYI Alumni 2012, YMCA Debate Club and Y&G

YI: ‘Get Connected’ Fair 2012By DeAundre D.,YI Alumni 2012

Once a shy young student from South Los Angeles, Elinelsin L. has emerged as a young lead-er active in three YMCA teen programs. He has learned new tech skills in the Youth Institute program and is more confident when addressing an audience. Easily one of the most pas-

sionate speakers in the nine-member unit known as the Y-Teens Debate Club, Elenilsen’s fire for defending the point and ability to project and reach the audi-ence helped the newly-formed debate club place 2nd overall among seven teams in a 14-week compe-tition known as the Thinkfinity Debate and Knowledge Bowl sponsored by Verizon. “I am enjoying my experi-ence in the Youth Institute. It has opened so many other doors,” said Elinelsin, who recently joined the YMCA’s Youth & Government program. It has made me eager to learn.”

To bring awareness to and address the digital disparity in underserved communities, over 50 YMCA members, stu-dents and parents participated in the 2012 Youth Institute’s ‘Get Connected’ Fair at the Weingart YMCA Wellness & Aquatic Center to learn how broadband creates opportuni-ties for healthy living. “I felt very empowered to share my knowledge with people that wanted to learn more about the internet and computer technology,” offered DeAundre D., 2012 YI Alumni. “The ‘Get Connected’ Fair was about sharing, and I was glad I was able to help some in my community with what I’ve learned over the summer.”

The Weingart YMCA Wellness & Aquatic Center in South Los Angeles helps to educate and develop area youth through intensive programming like the Youth Institute (YI), a year-round digital media arts program and

the California Youth & Government (Y&G) program, a six-month experience teaching youth to understand government and the democratic process via hands-on involvement in po-litical debate, lobbying and bill creation. Recently, youth from the YI and Y&G programs worked together to film and present District 8 councilman Bernard Parks with a recognition award at City Hall for his commitment to South Los Angeles and also to learn how voting can have positive effects on urban communities.“All these things are important- from cleaning the streets and how often it gets paved to when trees get cut and the quality of the air,” Parks related. “All the things you can think of, someone votes on it. So you get the sense of how important it is to be registered to vote each and every time.” Parents and community leaders including Los Angeles Metropolitan YMCA CEO Alan Hostrup, Weingart YMCA Board President Karen Flores convened in council chambers to sup-port the youth on their visit and tour of City Hall. Parks went on to encourage the youth to come see their government in action by attending council meetings and speaking on an is-sue or by watching how their elected representative votes on issues affecting their neighborhood.

by ANTOINE BURKS, YI Director


LONG BEACH YOUTH INSTITUTE • LONG BEACH, CA

YMCA of Greater Long Beach

Community DevelopmentYOUTH INSTITUTE

The “Digital Divide” is a concept that refers to the gap between those people who have Internet ac-cess and those who do not. 10 of our 13 replication sites are partially funded by the California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF). CETF’s mission is to provide leadership statewide to close the “Digital Divide” by accelerating the deployment and adoption of broad-band to unserved and underserved communities and populations. This was a perfect fit for the Youth Institute because part of our curriculum is to give back to the community through SERVICE LEARNING. In this partner-ship with CETF, our youth have been commissioned to train our community on basic digital literacy and broadband awareness with the hope to help close the digital divide. While training the past 9 months, we have realized this is a real need in our community and recognize the impact these classes have on their constituents. Since inception, we have trained over 2,200 adults and youth which has gotten us closer to our goal of 9,200 over 3 years. Our youth enjoy being able to get out into the community and share their knowledge of technology and computers. They often don’t realize how much they know until they get in front of some-one to teach them. We applaud their efforts and rec-ognize that this is not only teaching them how to give back but also gives them a chance to participate in the highest level of learning, teaching back. by Bobby Klein, YI Operations Director

This past fall semester the YMCA of Greater Long Beach has been working with our high school seniors to prepare for their future. Participating youth have had the opportunity to attend COLLEGE AND CAREER

READINESS workshops, campus tours and have one-on-one mentoring sessions with our college readiness staff. During the months of October and November, youth participants spent numerous hours at the Y filling out their college applications. To date, 25 of our youth who are seniors have ap-plied to an institution of higher education. Some of the universities that our students have applied for this year include: CSULB,CSUF, CSUDH, CAL Poly Pomona, Hum-boldt State, UCI, UCR and USC. Additionally, youth have participated in campus tours at CSUF, CSULB, Cal Poly Pomona, and UCLA. This coming spring youth will be receiving assistance with their financial aid and scholarship applications to assure that they have the necessary funds to pay for their education. Our hopes here at the YMCA of Greater Long Beach is to help our youth achieve their best educational potential. by Eddie Gardiner, College Readiness Director

Just as soon as 2012 faded away into the night, we had the morning sun coming up on the horizon of 2013. With our biggest project to date starting at the end of this month. We here at the CHANGE AGENT PRODUCTIONS (CAP) office have a lot to look forward to. Over the course of 18 months, we are going to be consulting for and building Las Vegas Clark County Library DigiLabs in Nevada, which will afford us the op-portunity to take at least 24 youth interns out into the world and expand their experiences. Coupled with our Spring installment of the Children’s Institute Digital Media Arts class, we are going to have our hands full and our brains firing on all synapses as we barrel into the first quarter of 2013. by Daniel Meza, Associate Art Director for CAP


STEPHENS YOUTH INSTITUTE • LONG BEACH, CA

YMCA of Greater Long Beach

Community DevelopmentSTEPHENS YOUTH INSTITUTE

In Music We Trust

At Stephens Middle School Youth Institute, we have multiple en-richment clubs for our participants to engage in. One of our main focuses is Project-Based Learning (PBL). Yet, we didn’t want to be traditional with our projects. We created various clubs that incor-porated PBL. One of them was the Music Production and Perfor-mance Club. As a leader, I wanted to show the students how work-ing with music in a team environment could be really cool and fun. I wanted to demonstrate that they could create music just like the music they listen to on their iPods, or the radio. It all started with a vocal test. The students sang the Solfege scale in each key to show off their vocal ranges. This helped with knowing who my strongest singers were going to be. The group was introduced to instruments such as the guitar, ukulele, piano, bongo drums, and homemade shakers. The students were ex-tremely excited to play all of these instruments, but I had one problem; I didn’t know how to play two out of the five instruments listed. Go figure. So to spice it up a bit, I brought in an awesome guitarist from a local band called “Amaryllis”. He led a guitar workshop teaching the group the basics. They had lots of fun learning some-thing new. The students took the initiative to teach other students in the group how to play the ukulele. At this point, we were ready to start practicing our chosen song. The group learned the importance of prac-tice, because they knew they would need to get better to perform their song live. So, after many practices, our group performed live on the blacktop while there was a school event occurring and people walking by. Peo-ple actually stopped to listen and watch with smiles. The students were nervous, but they did a great job. They relied on each other to stay on beat, stay in key, and stay in the moment. I then surprised them and informed them that they were going to digitally record their song. They were excited to start right away when they learned technology was involved. I showed them an example of what a digital recording looks like by using a song from my music group “JL John Leslie”, which made them even more excited to start on their own project. We used Apple’s Garageband and a Blue Yeti USB microphone to record each instrument. They learned the basics of Garageband and how to edit music and each student had a vo-

cal recorded on the track. Many 21st century skills were learned and implemented while working in this group. The end result, a cover of a popular acoustic song on YouTube called “Lullaby” by LaTeeya. My group played and sang it live, and created a digital recording of the song, and did a great job working together. Through music, my group became a lot closer.

by JOHN SANDERSProgram Leader & YI Alumni 2003

It started off as a hopeful vi-sion, a distant dream that we did not expect to realize so soon. Our goal was not to create another afterschool childcare site, but to create a place that middle school aged youth chose to attend and were asked to do purposeful and creative work. Due to its over-whelming success that dream has been put on the fast track. What began as a visit to the Long Beach Youth Institute and Change Agent Productions in search of inspiration and a guide for framework, quickly evolved into a wonderful relation-ship and partnership for our Pilot Year of the SLO County YMCA’s Cambria Youth Institute. We are proud to have contributed crea-tively to our Santa Lucia campus and through outreach to the com-munity in which we live. Shortly after completion of our Summer Youth Institute we took first place in the Long Beach 1st Annual Youth Institute Film Festival in the Middle School division with the “Do-It-All Remote” video. In November, our 1st place winning video was showcased at Hearst Castle, as an opening film for the Cambria Education Foundation’s “Movie Night” fundraiser. The film was shown to over 700 attendees over two days. The production team signed autographs and dis-tributed DVDs in the lobby during intermission. This project combined the learning experience of making a film, the exposure of our students to a wide audience, and the rec-ognition of their work while assisting in the raising of grant money for the school district that the students attend.

In October, we were asked to interview artists for Arts Obispo’s Open Studios Art Tour and cre-ated a promotional video for Arts Obispo that will

be shown on their website. This endeavor provided an opportunity to film, but also taught the students how to interact with professionals as professionals, while providing a service to the artists in the com-munity. Our students have staffed Tech Teach booths to provide important training to adults and students alike. A booth was held on cam-pus during Family Resource night and in the community during Hos-pitality Night. Youth Institute par-ticipants taught basic skills as well as teaching attendees how to pro-duce songs using MIDI keyboards and Garageband software. As news of our program spreads so has our outreach. Our program recently traveled to another YMCA afterschool program and taught how green screens work and how to make music videos using a green screen. We have also filmed and are in the process of editing of a YMCA Roller Hockey League promotional video. This exposure had proved valuable as we just received a mini grant for $600 through Central Coast STEM (CCSTEM) to travel to two after-school programs in Grover Beach to teach video production. With the introduction of the 1:1 iPad program at the mid-dle school, our YMCA students have been chosen as the student ambassadors. Recently the Apple Representatives brought teach-ers and administrators from other districts to visit our piloting of 1:1 iPads. Our YMCA ambassadors and the principal, John Calandro, gave a walking tour of the cam-

pus and demonstration of how the iPads are used in the academic setting. Their experience not only with technology, but with adults in a work-like setting has made them the perfect candidates for this job. And finally, our program con-tinues beyond the middle school years. Alumni volunteer after school and continue to work crea-tively. One alumnus, Arturo Gonza-lez, just won first place for the Arts Obispo Poetry Out Loud Save the Date Postcard design competi-tion. His design will be printed on a thousand postcards and mailed throughout the county. The SLO County YMCA’s Cam-bria Youth Institute is beginning to be recognized countywide and we are continuing to build com-munity partnerships. This purpose-ful work has given our youth an opportunity to build real life work experience with an emphasis on the importance of product driven work, and most of all product completion. They learn to deal with client deadlines, on-the-job train-ing, customer service, and real life application of how the school day applies to the real world. But most of all, this program has changed the culture of our afterschool program. Our participants are now leaders, teachers, creators, and have first hand ownership in their Youth Institute. Our students believe in the work they are doing and they believe in themselves.


SAN LUIS OBISPO YOUTH INSTITUTE • SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA

YOUTH INSTITUTEYMCA OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY

by DAN HARTZELL, YI Director

THINK TOGETHER AZUSA/GLADSTONE YOUTH INSTITUTE • AZUSA, CA

THINK Together Azusa

YOUTH INSTITUTE At Azusa THINKs, our Youth Institute class has been busy with a few projects including the Got Milk? 2012 Breakfast Billboard Photo Contest. The winner of this contest will be awarded a grand prize of $1,000.00 and the photo will be used as a billboard image for Got Milk? promotion purposes. Our Youth Institute alumni and new participants (prospective youth for next summer program) participated in the contest by submitting a total of 8 entries and one entry as a group. As part of the contest, the photo has to portray the benefits of drinking milk for breakfast and how it helps your brain and mental per-formance in a school setting. Our Youth Institute Class participants are doing an awesome job in every project we present them with and I appreciate the fact that they are open to any kind of challenge. For the next project, the youth will be making a film about teenage love in which they will lead every aspect of producing the film. The youth are definitely excited that they have the freedom to create and have actual ownership of the end product. Once the students complete the production, the film will be presented at our weekly Movie Day. We’re definitely looking forward to see our youth in action!

During the month of November the Youth Institute participants at Gladstone High were called in for a meeting to discuss the updates for the Youth Institute. They were made aware of the CETF docu-mentation and a few techniques were discussed to accomplish these goals. At the meeting we also presented them with a project requested by Mrs. Jackie Latrell, Assistant Principal. The project consisted of a two minute high-light video for each of the winter sports teams at Gladstone High. The videos were to be used at the winter sports rally at Gladstone High. Keleen Valverde, Eber Soto, Roberto Valenzuela, Martin San-doval, Jessica Moreno, Maritza Ventura and Karen Ruiz were the students who participated in the

development of the videos. These youth met on a weekly basis to report the progress of their videos, as they needed to go to games and practices to record the team’s highlights. Upon successful com-pletion of the videos, the school’s ASB team presented each video during the sports rally using the videos as introductions rather than their old ways of introducing the team’s participants individually. The Youth institute participants also requested a designated time slot for them to be able to socialize and “hang out” as they request-ed. They chose Charlie to be the leader of the activities in order to come up with ideas to work on dur-ing that time. This month we will be turning our focus to begin a mass operation

to bring in as many CETF docu-mentations as possible. The youth realized they had a few family members they could assist in fixing their computers. They also had a few other ideas to incorporate the new broadband documentations, via relatives with new smartphones, handheld devices and laptops.

YOUTH INSTITUTETHINK Together Gladstone

by ABEL LUA, Site Director

by EDUARDO ROCHA, Site Director


EAST PALO ALTO YOUTH INSTITUTE • EAST PALO ALTO, CA

YOUTH INSTITUTEYMCA of SILICON VALLEY

LEWIS AND JOAN PLATT EAST PALO ALTO FAMILY YMCA

The Born this Way Foundation was formally launched in 2012 by artist Lady Gaga and her mother Cynthia Germanotta that encourages young people to embrace their individuality and feel confident in who they are. The foundation’s overall mission is “empowering youth & inspiring bravery.” It is true is young people feel empowered to make a difference and experi-encing a sense of self-worth through self-confidence. Bullying is a confidence killer but confronting the voice of abuse will teach young people to be bold and brave. It’s about being able to feel comfortable in your own skin knowing that will empower you to win in life. The YMCA and the Born this Way foundation have the same goal in mind. Changing a community be-gins with changing one life at a time. Building mean-ingful relationships and giving the resources people in the community need to make positive changes all begin with getting involved in a persons life by simply reaching out to them individually. The Born Brave bus goes with Lady Gaga to each city in her U.S. 33 city line up. Everyone under the age of 25 can go to the VIP area that is set up in tailgate style and be able to talk to professionals about real life situations going on in their life such as bullying, and depression. It’s open to all for empowerment and self-confidence building. The teens here at YMCA of East Palo Alto were able to be part of the wonderful experience by helping people embrace their individuality. The teens handed

out pieces of paper which participants to fill in the blank that came after the words… “I AM”. This was to let them express themselves. Three of our teens pho-tographed each person that came into their tent and helped each teen feel empowered and confident in who they are by simply helping them state WHO THEY ARE.

Here is what our teens have to say about this event:

Jerson C. believes “allowing people the ability to embrace their individuality and feel accepted and not rejected for who they are is the practices of the YMCA’s 41 developmental Assets. I believe we both felt and engaged in asset #38 - Self-esteem is one of my all time favorites. To me self-esteem means some-one feels empowered and built up. Giving them the ability to go out into their everyday lives and help others pick up the broken pieces in their lives and be confident in who they are.”

Eddie F. - “I think this is a great idea and allowing teens from the community to go to the Born Brave Bus. It was a great atmosphere and I can tell while I was taking peoples pictures they felt great about them-selves for that moment. Hopefully that great feeling will stick and help them realize they are special indi-viduals and can make a difference in the communi-ty.”

Written by: Samuel A. Quotes by: Jerson C. and Eddie F.



BERKELEY YOUTH INSTITUTE • BERKELEY, CA

YOUTH INSTITUTEYMCA of the Central Bay Area

PG&E Teen Center Berkeley

The Berkeley Youth Institute has been settling into our first year after graduating 23 amazing teens from an unforgettable summer experi-ence. Those youth went on to fully transition into 9th grade this year. Much like their transformation into young adults, the Berkeley Youth Institute has changed too. Right alongside our kids, the Institute has matured, taken on a new set of responsibilities, and in front of us we see a world of possibility. In my introduction to the Youth Institute, Bob Cabeza said it was our respon-sibility to turn our kids into “possi-bility junkies”. Today, if you walk into our tech lab during a meeting you will find Youth Institute interns expanding their understanding of possibility and interacting with a tangible sense of possibility as they participate in community based technology projects. As an Institute we too are becoming ‘possibility junkies’, envisioning how far we can take the creativity, productiv-ity, and imagination that fuels this program.

The Berkeley Youth Institute has designed an internship for the school-year portion of the program that engages youth on leadership development, citizenship, and skill based job readiness, all through the lens of technology. These kids are at a crossroads, moving into adulthood and absorbing all kinds of information. It’s in this crossroads that we choose to equip our youth with the structures of opportunity (technology being a large one) that will allow them access to all the possibilities presented to them. If society were a human body, communication is the central ner-vous system. Today, technology is rapidly be-coming the vessel through which we communicate, particularly youth. The internship teaches the youth how to use technology in positive and transformative ways. In order to ground our youth as they delve into the infinite possibil-ities of technology, we facilitate conversations and projects dealing with citizenship. We define citizen-

ship as the relationship an individu-al has to their community, both lo-cally and globally, and at the core of this is participation. Youth have spent the last couple of months participating in the creation of a one of a kind youth resource guide for the East Bay Area. Making this resource guide has allowed the youth to move inside the com-munity in a different way, inspiring ownership and expertise on their part, and in the community positive youth visibility. Starting in February, the youth will be conducting tech clinic hours as part of a larger peer education piece of the program, taking the knowledge they’ve gained and sharing it with their peers and the larger Bay Area community. Moving into the second half of our first year I look forward to seeing the Youth Institute continue to unfold and grow, the possibilities multiply, and the youth continue to create innovative and exciting projects.

by PEGAH RAHMANIAN, YI Director


RAPID CITY YOUTH INSTITUTE • RAPID CITY, SD

YOUTH INSTITUTEYMCA of RAPID CITY

Some of the biggest projects the YI teens have been working on are their WALL MURALS. The teens were given total artistic control ranging from content to colors. In one room, there is a wall that has orange, blue, green, and white stripes and the wall next to it has bubbles of the same colors chosen to make the room feel light and fresh. In the office behind YI Associate Director’s desk, is a life-size painting of Yoda from Star Wars; his favorite movie character. Another teen created a Japanese Garden scene and followed with a painting of movie star Marilyn Monroe. New wall paintings that have been started include an anime drawing and an aquarium. Even the staff has jumped in and done some painting too. The outflow of creativity has been amazing and the lessons of planning, patience, perseverance, and time-management are leaving behind artwork that will be great examples for YI teens to come.

One of the major projects so far this year is the “MUSIC ROOM.” This room is be-ing converted from a framing supply room into an audio recording studio. The supplies have been moved out and the recording equipment has been moved in. The teens are painting the walls and ceiling black with white music notes on the walls and glow-in-the-dark decorations on the ceiling. Carpet has been laid down to stop the old wooden floor from creaking during recording sessions. Sound panels will be put up to dampen some of the echo and be a barrier to prevent the sounds from disturbing the ad-

jacent classroom. Ben, the teen who has been leading this project, said that he is “thrilled” about this room and cannot wait to get it done. He is not the only one. There are some media projects lined up to be worked on when the music room is done including Radio PSA’s, the YMCA’s telephone hold recording, and band recordings.

YOUTH INSTITUTE TEENS GIVE BACK • November 11th - 17th is Hunger and Homeless Awareness Week, and in honor that, the teens at the Y’s Youth Institute (YI) decided to see how they could help local families in need. On Wednesday, November 14th, teens donated time to help pre-sort food donations at the Rapid City Food Bank. When vendors and grocery stores throughout the Midwest donate their damaged goods to organizations such as the Food Bank, the donations must be sorted in order to ensure that patrons are receiving safe products. The teens learned a lot about how products can be salvaged, and gained a first hand look at how many people the Food Bank benefits right here in Rapid City. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, it certainly exposed how grateful the teens are for what they have.

by ANTHONY RAAPHORST, YI Associate Director

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EAST LA YOUTH INSTITUTE • LOS ANGELES, CA

YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES

Our YI is off and running on establishing ourselves within the Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles community as a media production company. After a successful summer launch, we transitioned into our year-round program that focuses on highlighting the work of the Building Healthy Communities initiative led by The California Endowment. Our Youth Institute has been documenting the story of the Boyle Heights area as it works into transforming into a healthier place for all of its youth and residents. Fortunately, there’s always plenty of activity with our Hub partners and it provides us with lots of opportunities to hire YI alum to participate on media projects. This past October, our YI was contracted to develop a video of the 3rd Annual Dia De Los Muertos event held at Rose Hills Cemetery. The event drew over 13,000 in attendance and served as a reminder of the rich diversity of culture found

in Los Angeles. We took a media team to capture the day’s event and produce two video packages of the event, as well as a photo library. You can check out the video of this event and any of our WELA Youth Institute videos by visiting www.vimeo.com/welaymca. We look forward to more community projects and into expanding our YI in the coming year. Our first class has already been asking about the applications and we are excited to continue to grow with great strides in East Los Angeles.

by DAVID VALDEZ, YI Director

NATIONALYOUTH INSTITUTE525 East 7th St • Long Beach, CA 90813

NATIONAL YOUTH INSTITUTE CALENDARMARCH 10-13Nat’l YI ConferenceCambria CA.

JUNE 17-21Wilderness Retreat #1Kings Canyon Nat’l Park

JUNE 24-28Wilderness Retreat #2Kings Canyon Nat’l Park

JULY 8-12Wilderness Retreat #3Kings Canyon Nat’l Park

MARCH 1Start recruitment for New Class.

APRIL 3rd week1st New Class Meeting w/parents

MAY 3rd week2nd New Class Meeting on Retreat

National Youth Institute Conference

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QUESTIONS: BOBBY KLEIN, Youth Institute Operations DirectorNational Youth Institute • 525 E 7th St • Long Beach, CA. 90813P (562) 624-5477 • E [email protected] • F (562) 624-2379www.lbymcayi.org • www.changeagentproductions.org

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building the futureLearn how to develop a Youth Institute program. Hear from current rural, urban and in-school Replication sites. Sessions on Youth Development, Technology, Data & Evaluation, the Wilderness Retreat, Youth Recruit-ment & Retention, Teambuilding and more. Youth produced content will be showcased and presented.

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The Long Beach Youth Institute was honored by PBS SoCal as a “Community Champion,” for their American Graduate Initiative. Visit the weblink below to see the video:

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Year two of the summer Youth Institute has begun. In March - recruitment begins for new class and alumni. April and May you will have your 1st and 2nd meetings. June prepare for your scheduled Wilderness retreat. July the Summer Youth Institute program. August the Film Fesitival & Graduations and the National Youth Institute Film Festival.Questions: [email protected] [email protected]

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Year Two NATIONAL YOUTH INSTITUTE · 2016. 1. 14. · SOUTH CENTRAL YOUTH INSTITUTE • LOS ANGELES, CA NATIONAL YOUTH INSTITUTE NEWSLETTER • 7 YOUTHWEINGART YMCA WELLINESS & AQUATIC