Project WHAT now hiring! Application due 4/22/11

Project WHAT! is recruiting!

Get PAID $$$$ to share your story. Project WHAT! is looking for youth between the ages of 15-24, who have had an incarcerated parent and are willing to share their experience. We are looking for youth who share our desire to increase awareness of what it’s like to have a parent in prison or jail, and to improve services for youth with incarcerated parents. As a member of Project WHAT!, you will  work with a writing instructor to write a true story based on your personal experience of having parent(s) incarcerated; speak publicly at conferences and workshops (including sharing the story you wrote); and facilitate trainings for adults and youth. You will receive support and training to achieve these goals. For more information about Project WHAT!, visit: www.communityworkswest.org, find them on Facebook.com/CWProjectWHAT or Text (510) 914-8164.

 

Thanks for your support! Flyer and Full Application located below:

Project WHAT! Recruitment Flyer

Project WHAT! Application 2011

March 15, 2011- BVHP Community Convener Meeting

Please join us for March’s Convener Meeting in which we will discuss the San Francisco City budget update, violence prevention, gang injunctions, and community presentations.

Civil Gang Injunction in Bayview/Hunters Point

According to the San Francisco Superior Court’s March 15, 2007 Judgment Granting Permanent Injunction against the Oakdale Mob, the court-ordered Safety Zone is “located in the City and County of San Francisco, bounded by Griffith Street to the east, Palou Avenue to the south, Ingalls Street to the west, and Navy Road to the north, continuing straight beyond the end of Navy Road to where it would intersect with Ingalls Street, and including both sides of those four boundaries streets.” The map is below:

 

Attached below are the documents that will be handed out at the meeting:

City Attorney Injunction Against Oakdale Mob

Betraying the Model City: How Gang Injunctions Fail Oakland

Fiscal Year 2011 Budget Update (Handout)

PAID Youth Summer Internships

Caroline with the Summer Learning Network, has provided this list of PAID summer youth programs and internships via Margaret Brodkin’s distribution list. Please spread the word about these great summer opportunities. Almost all are for ages 14-17 or 14-18, except for the middle school program Urban Trailblazers at the Crissy Field Center. Please note that some have application deadlines coming up soon.  Thanks for helping get the word out!

The full list of opportunities is located below:

Microsoft Word – Paid youth internships-programs Summer 2011

UCSF Paid High School Internship Program application due March 31st

This internship is for promising high school students (with a particular emphasis on African American males) to apply to be a part of a research mentorship for the summer.  If they are selected for the program, they will receive a stipend of $4,800 for an internship that requires a total time commitment of 320 hours or approximately 40 hours per week for 8 weeks. In order to receive the stipend they will need to have a social security number or tax ID number.

 

Please see the application for details, and please share with students.  This is due March 31st at 5pm.

Application is posted below:

2011 UCSF YITH2 Student Application FULL Packet from Clergy

Youth Employment Forum at City College on Wednesday, March 23

The Youth Employment Forum being organized by the Workforce Investment Community Advisory Committee, TAY-SF and the Youth Employment Coalition.  The forum is being designed to hear from young people what employment services they need and want in San Francisco.  ”Older folks” are invited as well and will be a part of the conversation.

If you would like any additional information, please contact Jodi Schwartz
at jodi@lyric.org or 415 703-6150.

The forum will be held at City College of San Francisco’s Ocean Campus, 50
Phelan Avenue, Multi Use Building, Room 140.

The flyer is posted below:

Youth Employment Forum Flyer

University of CA at Berkeley Preparing for College Middle/ High School Workshops on April 16, 2011

UC Berkeley is hosting Cal Day 2011 on Saturday April 16th through workshops on college readiness and preparedness at the Middle School and High School levels for students and their families. College affordability and financial aid workshops will also be presented. All are encouraged to join and  workshops are free of cost.

Preparing for College Middle School workshop:  10am-11am

Preparing for College High School workshop: 11:30am- 12:30pm

2011 Cal Day Flyer CEP Workshops

Spanish version: 2011 Cal Day Flyer CEP Spanish Workshops

Activities and Enrichment Resources for Summer Youth Programs

This listing created by the Summer Learning Network for the Feb. 25, 2011, Summer Program Development Conference includes activities and resource providers that offer their programs during the summer and can work with summer youth programs, based on the information available as of February 2011. Some programs that are presenting separately at the event are not included on the list. We’ll continue to update Summer Learning Network members on additional resources. Please join the Summer Learning Network (at no cost) to stay in the information loop! To join, e-mail Margaret Brodkin, brodkinm@sfusd.edu. And keep up with our blog at www.sfsummerlearning.org.

The PDF document with the program, activities, and resources is available by clicking below.

Summer Resource List 2011