Watch youth leaders from Fresno and Merced share their work in a half-hour special on Kids Count, a program on Valley PBS. SUCCESS youth share their work to improve Fresno schools in the first part of the show, and We’Ced Youth Media’s young leaders explain their role as Merced’s youth journalists in the second half.
Author: The kNOw Youth Media
The kNOw works to support and equip young people with the journalism and advocacy skills they need to tell their stories and the stories of their communities.
In 2006, over 25 youth began participating in weekly after-school writing workshops where they congregated in the hallway of a two-story building in West Fresno and learned the essentials of creating media and telling their stories. The group evolved over the next five years and is now proudly recognized as The kNOw Youth Media.
Through our program, we create opportunities for our youth participants, who in turn create long-term positive change in their communities. Our approach weaves youth development and youth media innovation to produce our biannual youth publication, multimedia projects, and community forums.
The kNOw began as a project of New America Media, which was the country’s first and largest national collaboration and advocate of 2000 ethnic news organizations. In 2018 The kNOw became a project of Youth Leadership Institute.
On October 23, 2012 I departed to Mexico. We traveled to visit family and celebrate the day of the dead- el Dia de Los Muertos.
On January 30, 2013 Hadiya Pendleton was shot when an individual jumped a fence and opened fire on her and a group of her friends. For some reason, when I heard that Hadiya was killed, the news didn’t hit me as hard as when I heard of shootings in the past. The shooting epidemic sweeping our nation makes me fear desensitization to gun violence is becoming the norm for our country.
Young men in Fresno’s BMoC create skate deck art with a purpose and turn tagging skills into something positive for the community.
The mom, an obvious Bullard parent stated that Edison has always been bad news and she was scared for this game. When I told her I was an Edison student she was slightly shocked.