Youth Leadership Workshops

During the months of May and June the UCCP provided trainings for youth workers through United Way’s Community Impact Training Institute. The trainings covered the topics of "Youth Leadership", "Forming Youth Councils and Youth Advisory Boards" and "Youth, Media and Identity". The workshops were facilitated by UCCP's Assistant Director Catalina Gonzalez, Media Coordinator Natalia Smirnov and Leaders Corps members Gary Browne, Malikka Saeed, Dominic Eason, Earl Joseph and Victoria Holmes.

UCCP offers a variety of workshops around issues of urban youth perceptions and challenges, youth leadership development, youth-adult collaboration, social change education and media literacy and production. To bring a UCCP workshop to your school or organization, please contact Catalina Gonzalez at catalina.gonzalez@temple.edu.

The Bridge to the Future: UCCP at the Youth Development Conference!

On December 11, 2008 the UCCP once again had a strong showing at the United Way Youth Development Conference. Members of the Leaders Corps facilitated two widely attended workshops, one on Youth, Media and Identity and the other on Spoken Word as a powerful tool for youth voice. In addition, the UCCP staff was in constant conversation with youth and adults who stopped by The Temple Youth VOCIES Information Table and members of V-Media rounded out the day's activities by interviewing youth for 'Feelin' the Cuts' and capturing the Mayor's address to Philadlephia youth on film.