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Youth

ACME Coalition Blog
ACME is a network of educators, students, health professionals, journalists, media-makers, parents, activists, and other citizens joined as a member-supported, independent, nonprofit continental educational coalition.
http://www.acmecoalition.org

Allied Media Conference
The Allied Media Conference cultivates media strategies for a more just and creative world. It is the primary point of intersection in the U.S. for alternative media makers and committed social justice activists.
http://www.alliedmediaconference.org

Aspira Association
Grass roots organization working to provide leadership development and educational assistance to Latino communities. Works with over 25,000 Latino youths, has 7 regional groups.
http://www.aspira.org/

Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Youth development network of neighborhood-based facilities serving more than 3 million disadvantaged kids.
http://www.bgca.org/

Global Youth Connect.org
A comprehensive list of conference and training events (in chronological order) of interest to young activists.
http://www.globalyouthconnect.org/Pages/conferences.html

ID Film Academy
The iD Film Academy offers 2 weeks of intensive study in filmmaking and post-production for teens. Filming on location in San Francisco and Berkeley, students will learn from top tier instructors who have an insider’s knowledge of the industry and film festival circuit.
http://www.internaldrive.com/film-academy/

International Youth Media Summit
Nearly 90 people from 26 countries attended the last summit and represented diversity in identifying and addressing seven core issues: racism, poverty, violence, environment, health, youth empowerment, and women's empowerment. The outcome was 7 X 1 minute Public Community Announcements filmed and edited by student filmmakers as well as researched and prepared by the student diplomats.
http://www.roamingreporters.net/IRMAS/Welcome.html

Irish Youth Media Development
The Irish Youth Media Development is an organization concerned with the impact of the mass media on the creation of contemporary culture. IYMD aims to help young people develop an informed and critical understanding of the nature of the mass media: the techniques used by the media industry, and the impact of these techniques on the image of youth in society.
http://www.irishyouthmedia.com

Media and American Democracy Symposium
What do students need to know in order to become more thoughtful consumers of media messages related to politics? High school teachers can explore this and other questions at the annual Media and American Democracy Symposium, a joint venture of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's JFK School of Government.
http://www.teachingdemocracy.gse.harvard.edu/front.htm

NYC Grassroots Media
The NYC Grassroots Media Coalition is working to re-imagine issues of access to, control of, and power over our media system. That means defining our struggle as a struggle for Media Justice.
http://www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org/

National Youth Leadership Council
Funded by the Kellogg Foundation. Allied with Youth Service America, a federation of over 200 organizations. Provides service-learning professional development to primary through high school educators, administrators, teacher education staff and faculty, researchers, youth leaders, parents, program coordinators, community-based organization staffs, policy makers, and corporate and foundation officers.
http://www.nylc.org/

New York Film Academy Summer Camp
In all New York Film Academy film camps, each student writes, shoots, directs and edits his or her own films. Film camp is designed for people with little or no experience in making films. The programs focus on the fundamental elements of visual storytelling that enable the participants to direct their own projects.
http://www.nyfa.com/summer_camp/?gclid=CNGW4Lv4-ZMCFQWVFQodmnfrVg

Open Youth Networks
Open Youth Networks assists young people and their allies in the design and use of participatory media tools that enable them to create innovative peer-to-peer projects of dialogue, art, education and action.
http://www.openyouthnetworks.org

REACH Youth Development Conference
This workshop for both youth and adults had workshops in 2008 that included Youth-Led Community Change, Using Media, Culture, Art and Technology, Sustaining Youth Development Programs, Youth-Adult Partnerships, and Hot Issues (such as workforce readiness).
http://www.reachyouthprogram.org/node/3446

Singapore Youth and Media Conference
The Singapore Youth & Media Conference (SYMC) is an international media conference organised by students from Ngee Ann Polytechnic's School of Film and Media Studies (FMS) for youths at the tertiary level.
http://www.np.edu.sg/symc/

Summer Media Camp
The East Bay Media Center has conducted workshops and provided training in television production for well over two decades. EBMC's pioneering Teen Media Camp established in 1987 is the countries first media training program for teens.
http://www.eastbaymediacenter.com/summer%20media%20camp.shtml

The National Media Education Conference
The conference will have a strong youth media track.
http://www.nmec.org/

Youth Entertainment Studios Summer Programs
YES is at the forefront of youth development and offers a model that is productivity-driven, rather that activity-oriented. YES gets teens to set goals, work on them and then make them happen.
http://www.yesamerica.org/

Youth Media Camp
We want to change the relationship of young adults from passive viewers of media to active agents in the media. The sessions will not only give young adults the technical and creative skills needed to produce a variety of media, but it will also show the students how to look at media differently.
http://www.thepeopleschannel.org/mediacamp.htm

iEarn
Started in 1988, iEARN is the world's largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to collaborate on projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world.
http://www.iearn.org/