Teen Empowerment is celebrating our 20th anniversary this year! Join us on May 30 for the TE@20 Showcase at the Wimberly Theatre in the South End. With the help of young adults who once worked as youth organizers, we'll be telling TE's story through video, dance, drama, and speech. You can purchase tickets online today!
Thanks to everyone who's supported Teen Empowerment at these recent events:
- "It's TimE to Grow!" 2nd annual community luncheon in Rochester on May 3. Four hundred people came out to support Teen Empowerment. Here is the powerful video shown at the event: Success means little without my community. Read this piece from Rochester Homepage.net about how TE is moving forward despite the recent loss of a beloved member of our community. (See below.) More information about the luncheon.
- The 20th annual Boston Youth Peace Conference at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School on May 12. More information Watch conference coverage on NECN.
- The Somerville Youth Peace Conference at Somerville High on April 28. More information. Read about it in the Somerville News. At Wicked Local Somerville, check out TE youth Kaylin Gangi's guest column, "This is My Somerville." and an article reporting on the conference, Somerville Youth Share Stories.
- Open House at our new Boston headquarters, 384 Warren Street in Roxbury on April 30. Mayor Thomas Menino joined us, along with more than 200 others, to celebrate the new space with Teen Empowerment and our partner, Higher Ground.
We are mourning the untimely passing of a former TE Rochester youth organizer, Lawrence Richardson. In this op-ed in the Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester director Doug Ackley pays tribute to Lawrence and talks about the importance of investing in youth leadership. In this brief video, Lawrence speaks at Teen Empowerment events about violence and choices.
Check out some great videos of TE youth and TE events at TeenEmpowermentTV on YouTube.
Download our latest print newsletter, the TE Times, for an update on Teen Empowerment's work in 2011.
Teen Empowerment's Celebration of Hope & Caring honored Hubie Jones on March 3, 2011. Honorary co-chairs for this special event were Governor Deval Patrick and Dr. J. Keith Motley, Chancellor of UMass Boston. It was an extraordinary evening at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel! Thanks to everyone who supported Hubie and Teen Empowerment!
- See video highlights from the evening.
- Download a short biographyof Hubie Jones.
- Read a recent article about Hubie, Pay Life's Rent through Service
- See the video shown at the Celebration.
Teen Empowerment's Boston sites will once again employ youth through the Martin Luther King, Jr. Summer Scholars program, funded by John Hancock Financial and other sponsors. In addition, throughout the summer TE organizes weekly professional skills development gatherings for 650 youth from nearly 100 organizations that participate in the program. See coverage of the 2010 program on NECN.
Teen Empowerment has produced a 25-minute DVD entitled Voices from Behind the Wall, featuring messages to youth from prison inmates in Massachusetts. We also have a curriculum and discussion guide to accompany the DVD. Click here to check out the DVD and the guide on YouTube. Order online. Here's an article about the "Voices" DVD (with video excerpts) from the Boston Globe: Prison counsel.
TE has 10 short videos posted on YouTube that illustrate how we work interactively to engage groups of youth and adults. See exercises in action from our book, Moving Beyond Icebreakers! Concentric Circles, Make It Up: Paper Chase, Wordstorm, Evaluation, The Human Knot, Name Wave, Warm-up Questions, Bag Toss, Zip Zap Zup with Foot-Stamp, and Wind Blows with Word.
Be a Friend of TE! To learn more about the Friends of Teen Empowerment, contact us.
Download TE's publication, Voices of Children Left Behind in Massachusetts Public Schools.