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What is the Youth Views project?
P.O.V.'s Youth Views is a peer-led initiative, offering new models for working with youth and the media to encourage civic engagement that can be replicated by youth-serving and issue-based organizations across the country. Begun as a pilot project in 2000, Youth Views works with youth-run and youth-serving organizations, with a particular emphasis on groups working on behalf of communities of color and marginalized communities, with an emphasis on two primary areas of activity:
- Nationally, we offer P.O.V. films and resource materials free-of-charge to youth-service organizations to organize screening and discussion events around issues presented in the films, to enhance their outreach efforts in their communities.
- Locally in the New York City area, in addition to offering screenings, we work with youth leaders through the annual Youth Views Institute and Advisory Board to provide them with training and materials for using media as a tool in community organizing.
In addition, Youth Views collaborates with the Advisory Board to select films from the P.O.V. archives and develop accompanying facilitation materials, which are made available to youth organizers nationwide through the Youth Views Library.
Funding for Youth Views is provided by the Open Society Institute, the Educational Foundation of America, and the Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund.
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Don Kao of Project Reach leads a discussion
on "-isms" at the Youth Views Institute.
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