Y outh S ocial E ntrEprEnEurShip S YmpoSium
Saturday, April 29, 2006 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign www.conferences.uiuc.edu/Youth
ILLINOIS
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Presented by University of Illinois Extension and GSLIS Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Y outh S ocial E ntrEprEnEurShip S YmpoSium
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The Youth Social Entrepreneurship Symposium brings together seven innovative youth programs from across the country. All share a common vision: youth empowerment and leadership that is linked to community-building and social change. It is geared for youth leaders, teachers, librarians, youth educators, community leaders, and advocates for youth. Conference Location The conference will be held in Room 134 of Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, 611 East Lorado Taft Drive, Urbana, IL 61801 Conference Registration and Website To ensure a place in the symposium, please register at the conference Website www.conferences.uiuc.edu/Youth Additional Information For more information about conference registration procedures, please call Conferences & Institutes at 217-333-2880. Professional Development Hours University Continuing Education (.6 CEU) and Teacher Continuing Professional Development (6 CPDU) credit will be awarded for six contact hours.
3:15–3:30 PM 3:30–4:45 PM
PROGRAM, SATURDAY APRIL 29, 2006
8:30–9:00 AM 9:00–9:15 AM 9:15–9:45 AM Registration Welcome from Tony Mendes, AEL and Dennis R. Campion, Extension Keynote address: “Youth: Meet Your Future,” Luis Borunda, Hispanic Youth Symposium
9:45–10:00 AM Refreshments 10:00 AM–Noon Panel presentations: •Youth Media Workshop (Champaign-Urbana, IL) •Batey Urbano Café Teatro (Chicago, IL) •Community Concepts (East St. Louis, MO) 12:00–1:15 PM Lunch: Welcome from John Unsworth, Dean GSLIS 1:15–3:15 PM Panel presentations: •Street Level Youth Media (Chicago, IL) •Llano Grande Center for Research and Development (Llano Grande, TX) •Youth Action Research Institute (Hartford, CT) Refreshments Panel discussion on Youth and Social Entrepreneurship, with speakers from all seven projects Wrap-up and Evaluations: Luis Borunda
4:45–5:00 PM
YOUTH SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROJECTS PRESENTED AT THE CONFERENCE
The Hispanic Youth Symposium (Washington, DC) is building pathways to success for Hispanic High School students by exploring their “roots” (family, culture and community) and developing their “wings” through education and career. http://www.hispanicyouth.org The Llano Grande Center for Research and Development (Texas) is the home of an exciting, long-term experiment in educational research and community development. Together with our sponsors and partners, they are engaged in galvanizing young and old, students and residents, in developing new alliances to revitalize their communities and expand educational horizons. http://www.llanogrande.org/ Street Level Youth Media (Chicago) educates Chicago’s inner city youth in media arts and emerging technologies for use in selfexpression, communication, and social change. http://www.street-level.org/ The Youth Media Workshop (WILL and Innovative Ed. Consulting) partners with public schools in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois to teach African-American youth how to make radio and television documentaries that link their generation, the hip-hop generation, to the civil rights and black power generations. http://www.will.uiuc.edu/community/youthmediaworkshop/ The Youth Action Research Institute (YARI) of the Institute for Community Research (Hartford, CT) was formed in 1996 based on nearly a decade of work on youth-led action research for development, risk prevention, and social change. YARI promotes the use of action research for personal, group, and community development. Participants include children, preadolescents, and youth of diverse ethnic backgrounds as well as sexual minority youth. http://www.incommunityresearch.org/research/yari.htm Café Teatro Batey Urbano (Chicago) is a Puerto Rican/Latino youth membership club and Internet coffee-house that exists with a threefold purpose: a) to showcase the talents of the area’s youth and engage them in a continuous dialogue about youth, art, culture and the community; b) to link Puerto Rican/Latino students in the area universities with the community, and c) to provide a place in which older youth share their creative skills in a process of social ecology with younger people. http://www.prcc-chgo.org/batey_urbano.htm Community Concepts (East St. Louis) provides a safe haven where youth can develop their talents in theatre and television production. Community Concepts, Inc. produces the awardwinning talent show “Star Showcase” which can be seen on four cable access channels in and around East St. Louis. http://www.pbs.org/merrow/listenup/network/organizations/concepts/