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Title: FW: Youth Forum Planning Jan 29th
Youth Dialogue Planning Session Update:
Next Meeting for 1-2 Youth plus youth workers/teachers from each organization or school
When: - Thursday, Jan 29th from 3:30-5:30pm (and every Thursday until Feb 26th)
Where: - La Familia Guidance Center (this Thursday only)
155 S. Wabasha St., Suite 120
(northwest corner of Wabasha & Plato)
The purpose of having a forum or dialogue with the youth on the West Side, is to better understand the perspectives of what and how younger people feel about crime and safety issues here around us. Once we listen to their ideas about this, we can hope to learn from them and also teach them how the West Side could be safer by generating a discussion between adults, the police, and the youth. We will attempt to find some solutions or a starting point of how to make the West Side a safer and better place to live by working together and sharing our perspectives. We will hope to find ways of dealing with gangs, drugs, and other violence that is occuring around Humboldt High School and other places on the West Side.
To those of you still interested in helping youth pull together a presentation of safety and crime on the West Side for the Feb 26th Dialogue, a group is meeting every Thursday from 3:30-5:30 starting January 29th at La Familia Guidance Center located at 155 S. Wabasha St. (northwest corner of Wabasha & Plato). One or two youth can be chosen from your program to plan the Dialogue but no youth will be excluded from the Dialogue itself or in helping with other tasks. Other youth workers will be present to help moderate the discussion but the youth are to prepare what topics will be addressed and the format of this presentation. Each Thursday will be a different location on the West Side, determined at this first meeting.
It was determined by the small group of youth workers present at the Jan 22nd meeting the dress code for this event will be the same as the public school dress code and that youth workers will be present at the doors where they register to enforce the rules. No hats are to be worn on the premises. It was also determined that no more than 12 youth should be on the planning committee or otherwise it becomes overwhelming. Again, this does not mean the other youth will be excluded, only that planning will be more easily facilitated by a smaller group. This also teaches the youth who to pick to represent them in the initial stages.
Sorry for the lengthy e-mails but I feel these are some important first steps. Please call or write if you have any questions about the planning or otherwise.
- Jocelyn van Toor
West Side Safe Neighborhood Council
209 W. Page St.
St. Paul, MN 55107
651.298.9727
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