Celebration of Hope and Caring 2010
Honoree Joe Jackson
Honoree Sonia Alleyne Matthews with co-chair Ronald Walker
EVENTS
CELEBRATION OF HOPE AND CARING 2010
Many thanks to all who supported TE's annual Celebration of Hope and Caring on March 4. It was a great evening! Click here to see the short video shown at the Celebration. Read about our inspiring honorees, Sonia Alleyne Matthews and Joseph Jackson. Here's an article about the event in the Somerville News, and an excellent preview piece about TE in the Huffington Post.ROCHESTER GRAND OPENING
Many thanks to everyone who helped make the October 15th Grand Opening of TE Rochester's first neighborhood-based site such a great success! Check out video preview of the opening on YNN TV. Here's WHEC's coverage of the opening. Read about it in the Democrat & Chronicle and check out some photos of the event.SITE EVENTS
TE's youth organizers in Boston and Somerville are at work organizing initiatives in their neighborhoods. Check with the sites for information about what's coming up.SUMMER AT TE'S SITES
Teen Empowerment's sites in Boston and Somerville organize many events for youth in the community each summer. Thanks to everyone who participates.Read about Somerville's final 2009 summer event.
YOUTH PEACE CONFERENCES 2009
Boston's 17th annual conference on May 9 at the Jeremiah Burke High School, Dorchester, was a great success. More info.Somerville's third annual Youth Peace Conference, held on April 4, brought more than 600 young people to Somerville High School. This year's theme was "The Faces of Change, The Changes We Face." More info.
CELEBRATION OF HOPE AND CARING
Many thanks to everyone who supported Teen Empowerment's 2009 Celebration of Hope and Caring. Special thanks to our Host Committee and Board of Directors. We were pleased to honor the law firm of WilmerHale and long-time community workers Stanley Graham and Lynne Jackson. Download profiles of our honorees. Read about the Celebration in the Somerville Journal.Back to Top
SITE EVENTS 2008-2009
The People's Movement Cafe
TE's Egleston Square site organized a free teen cafe on March 12 at the English High School in Jamaica Plain. The event included skits, rap, poetry, dance, and raffle prizes."Say It Loud, I'm Proud" in Dorchester
The Dorchester site created a celebration of diversity and Black History Month on February 19 at the Lilla Frederick Middle School.Black History Poetry Slam/Cafe
A hundred people joined the Egleston Square youth at YPACT on February 11. This event included free food, open mic, and raffle prizes.Police-Youth Dialogues in Somerville
TE's Somerville site held dialogue sessions between youth and police officers on February 3 and February 5. Read about it in the Somerville Journal.Adult/Youth Collaborative Dialogue
TE's Egleston site held this session on February 4.A HOOD HOLIDAY: Presents for the Present
The Dorchester site held a holiday event for the neighborhood on December 22 at the Lilla Frederick Middle School. The event featured raps, poetry, freestyle battle, skits, open mic, and toy giveaways. Many thanks to those who organized toy donations for this event: to the religious schools of Congregation Kehillath Israel in Brookline and Temple Shalom in Milton, to Joyce Krensky and to her dad, Joel Krensky of Colpitts Travel.Teen Cafes
Both the Somerville and Egleston Square sites held Teen Cafes on December 18. If you were there, we hope you had a great time and found inspiration for your life and the community!OG's Call from Behind the Wall
TE's Dorchester site gathered dozens of neighborhood youth together on November 19 and again on November 20 for showings of "Voices from Behind the Wall," TE's 25-minute video of interviews with inmates at the Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater. The inmates, who made this powerful film in order to speak to Boston youth about the reality of their lives, are Darrell Jones, Clarence McGregor, Herbie Caillot, Anthony Burton, Ricky McGee,Mark Thomas, Anthony Warren, Mack Hudson, and Justice Mohammed. This is a free event featured snacks, prizes, games, and discussion.Rock 'Da' Mic in Somerville
On November 13, TE's Somerville site was the place to be for local youth! Download a flyer.Check out NEWS COVERAGE about TE's work.
UNITY RALLY FOR CHILDREN LEFT BEHIND
May 21, 2008, at the State House in Boston
Teen Empowerment, our 11 cosponsors, and many concerned students, teachers, parents, and public officials gathered at the Massachusetts State House to rally for true education reform that provides equal opportunities to all children and youth in Massachusetts. Speakers challenged the conventional assumption that the current "education reform" efforts are succeeding, given the facts that the dropout rate in urban schools has gone up and the achievement gap persist. To understand more, download an explanation of the rally's purpose the conditional diploma for future achievement for the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education that was signed at the rally, and an education fact sheet.
Why was this rally needed? Check out TE's publication Voices of Children Left Behind in Massachusetts Public Schools and an op-ed about urban schools in the Boston Globe written by TE's executive director. Contact us for more information about the rally.
See our News page for coverage of this event and TE's other work for real education reform.
The Unity Rally was sponsored by the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the American Federation of Teachers, the Boston Teachers Union, Citizens for Public Schools, FairTest (National Center for Fair and Open Testing), the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, the Boston Student Advisory Council, MIRA Coalition (Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy), Stand for Children, Massachusetts Afterschool Partnership, Massachusetts PTA, and Teen Empowerment.