Post-Katrina Youth Media: A Catalyst for Community Development
Serving as a catalyst for creative, disruptive innovation by youth and educators that will transform communities and schools in New Orleans and beyond - engaging New Orleans youth in documenting and sharing their experiences of youth-led community development to advocate for change that addresses historic and systemic inequity.
About You
Section 1: About You
First Name
Kyle
Last Name
Meador
Website
Organization
Crescent City Essential Schools
Country
United States
Section 2: About Your Organization
Organization Name
Crescent City Essential Schools
Organization Website
Organization Phone
916-849-9866
Organization Address
1740 Benton Street, New Orleans, LA 70117
Organization Country
United States
Your idea
Name Your Project
Post-Katrina Youth Media: A Catalyst for Community Development
What is your idea? What makes it innovative? Why is it important?
Serving as a catalyst for creative, disruptive innovation by youth and educators that will transform communities and schools in New Orleans and beyond - engaging New Orleans youth in documenting and sharing their experiences of youth-led community development to advocate for change that addresses historic and systemic inequity.
Will you launch your idea as a business or non-profit?
Non-profit
Country your work focuses on
United States
What will be the impact of your idea?
Still, more than four years after the devastation brought by Hurricane Katrina, communities in New Orleans, particularly residents in the Lower 9th Ward, are fighting an uphill battle rebuilding homes and recovering. Issues of displacement, depopulation, and blight complicate attempts to address historic and systemic issues such as racism, poverty and crime. Meanwhile, access to quality education, meaningful employment, financial resources, healthcare, and even food is compromised. These multiple compounding problems create a system of underdevelopment and what Nobel-prize winning economist Amartya Sen describes as conditions of "unfreedom".
These systemic and widespread systems of “unfreedom” cause long-lasting injury to young adults. Our work will engage marginalized New Orleans youth in developing skills, capacity, agency and efficacy through meaningful youth-led project-based learning that results in meaningful and sustainable community development. Youth will learn how to effectively use media to engage others in creating community change, reversing their marginalization and restoring mutually beneficial relationships between schools, youth and communities.
Who will help you develop your idea? Why are you the one to make this happen?
This will be implemented with strategic partnerships locally in New Orleans and nationally to create meaningful and sustainable community change through the authentic contributions of young people who have been historically marginalized. Students from Our School at Blair Grocery in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward will be supported by the expert media coaches to lead our efforts to effectively use media to support young people engaging in and leading sustainable community development efforts locally and nationally.
Relationships locally in New Orleans and nationally position our work for continuous expansion through the effective use of media. Specifically, as an affiliated center of the Coalition of Essential Schools, a national network of small, schools dedicated to creating equitable and innovative educational options, we are positioned well to facilitate national dissemination and training related to our approaches. In partnership with the National Youth Leadership Council to develop the New Orleans “hub” of the national Generator Service-Learning Network, we have the opportunity to effectively use media to support young people and educators nationally.
How much will it cost to launch your idea? (This can be an estimate)
The development of a teacher professional development and youth leadership center in New Orleans with the capacity to meaningful transform the relationships between schools and communities through coaching, professional development and networking opportunities will require significant resources.
However, we believe that to develop a sustainable program that will effectively engage marginalized young people in New Orleans in the process of effectively creating and using media to further efforts in sustainable community development locally and nationally will require between $25-30,000 to launch locally.
This would support the purchase of equipment necessary to produce effective media, the development and initial implementation of experiential, project-based curriculum that builds the capacity of young people to use media to create social change, development and piloting of teacher professional development curriculum to support replication and expansion to schools and programs nationally, and the initial production and distribution costs of our youth developed media.
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