CTVN Taps into Youth Visions to Transform Humboldt Park

[Denise Zaccardi]

Community TV Network (CTVN) is now working directly with Humboldt Park 
teens to transform and revitalize the Chicago neighborhood through 
multimedia tools and Youth Vision.

CTVN is one of eight organizations nationwide in the first "class" awarded 
a CTCNet "Youth Visions for Stronger Neighborhoods (YVSN)" grant.  This 
innovative new program trains youth in community activism through the use 
of multimedia tools, and aims to transform disadvantaged neighborhoods 
through the suggestions and efforts of the young people who live in them. 
Sponsored by the Corporation for National Service's Learn and Serve 
America divisions (www.learnandserve.org), YVSN aims to engage 
participating youth, through experienced Community Technology Centers 
(CTCs), in community decision-making and activism to strengthen their 
neighborhoods. 

Rachel Davis, CTVN Instructor and coordinator of its biweekly "Hard Cover" 
youth-produced cable-access TV program, is currently recruiting Humboldt 
Park teens for the project, which officially kicks off late this month and 
runs through the summer.  Youth Visions seeks to change youth attitudes 
regarding their role in the community's plight through an intensive, 
analytical process whereby youth assess and document the neighborhood's 
needs and problems, research solutions, and finally put these solutions 
into action.  Other pillars of the Youth Vision project include the youths 
learning about government, conducting community meetings, meeting with 
decisions makers, and evaluating the consequent results.

Interested Humboldt Park youth (ages 14-18) can attend a recruitment event 
March 31 at 4:30 p.m. or contact Rachel at ctvnvisions at yahoo.com or at 
CTVN (see below).  Adults interested in volunteering for the project are 
encouraged to contact Rachel, as well.  For more information on YVSN 
itself, see www.ctcnet.org/youthvisions/. 

For 30 years, Community TV Network has provided low-income, African 
American and Latino youth the opportunity, equipment and skills to make 
videos about their lives and communities.  CTVN's curriculum teaches 
critical thinking and real-world career skills while encouraging teens to 
stay in school and nurturing tomorrow's community activists.  CTVN's "Hard 
Cover" is the longest running youth-produced show in the nation (since 
1986), running bi-monthly on Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV 
19).  For more info on "Hard Cover" or Community TV Network contact Denise 
Zaccardi: 773-278-8500 or ctvnchicago at yahoo.com. 

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