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The REAL Youth Program

REAL is based in Chicago. For more information, go to: www.realprogram.org

About Me


REAL is a Chicago-based youth-centered program initiated as a grassroots-community endeavor in 2000. REAL's purpose is to assist children and adolescents in developing critical thinking and effective communication skills needed for life-long learning and success both in and out of school.

REAL understands the importance of helping young people find a voice and perceiving themselves, as well as others, as fully human with an innate ability to be viable change agents in their respective communities and in their own lives.

My Interests

JUSTICE & FREEDOM:
THE TIME IS RIGHT NOW!

ALL THAT IS REAL
IS IN YOU!

WAKE UP & UNPLUG!

I'd like to meet:

www.realprogram.org

REAL assists students in becoming more self-aware in the course of helping them gain insight into how social, political, and economic dynamics shape the world around them. The importance of sharing with others in a mutually responsible atmosphere is an attempt to consciously embody in each student those elements that are necessary for a healthy individual.

REAL offers young people a safe space, within the school environment, to express themselves by way of arts-based projects, critical literacy activities, and life-skills curriculum. Through dialogue and artistic expression, students become more aware of how to identify and confront personal and social challenges. In the words of one of our student founders, "REAL is a medium of expression for the previously unexpressed."


Music:


Movies:

Sloppy

Television:

Worldly Inspiration Youth Forum Video - Part 1 (03.14.08)

Worldly Inspiration Youth Forum Video - Part 2 (03.14.08)

Books:

Mentoring Young Men of Color: Meeting the Needs of African American and Latino Students by Horace R. Hall, Ph. D.

Heroes:

Rosa Parks (Activist)

Arundhati Roy (Activist/Author)

BPP (Socialist revolutionaries)


My Blog

The Hidden Curriculum of School Security

Before Littleton, Jonesboro and Paducah, the perception of school violence had never been so visceral. Even now, the rippling effect of those tragic events can be witnessed as schools across the nati...
Posted by The REAL Youth Program on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:59:00 PST

Mentoring Young Men of Color-- A MUST READ!!

Mentoring Young Men of Color: Meeting the Needs of African American and Latino Students examines the subject of youth mentoring through a cultural lens. The work not only investigates the value of sch...
Posted by The REAL Youth Program on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:41:00 PST

The Standardization of Youth Culture

The Standardization of Youth Culture: Our Present Atmosphere By Horace R. Hall, Ph. D. A mind that remains in the present atmosphere never undergoes sufficient development to experience what is common...
Posted by The REAL Youth Program on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:58:00 PST