CHALK NEWSLETTER

FEBRUARY 2007

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CHALK's OFFICIAL LOGO!

Communities in Harmony Advocating for Learning and Kids (CHALK) has been hiring youth and placing them into work environments as service providers to their own peers since 1996. Our philoshopy of "transformative youth development and employment" have clearly shown by these artists who have created our official CHALK logo. Thanks to our youth staff, Joseph Nunez, Chris Brown, and Andrew Kalaveras for creating our logo! Great work guys!

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YouthLINE Phoneline Outreach! Employee of the Month

Shout outs to Youthline Listeners for doing a great job on Decembers call volume! Keep it up!

YouthLINE Phone Line is a confidential phone line that is open everyday (including holidays) from 12pm to 10 pm. The phones are answered by youth, between the ages of 14 to 18. This is what makes YouthLINE so unique, youth to youth service, and its a free phone line run by youth, for youth.

Not comfortable calling? Youthline also has different ways for you to reach us. Write to our Dear Listener email or just contact us!

Outreach Meets Mike Epps!   

Please join in congratulating Andrew Kalaveras (Outreach and Graphic Designer) for being our newest employee of the month.

Andrew Kalaveras had an outstanding month to close out the year of 2006. Balancing his time between graphic design and school outreach, he's taken this opportunity to shine and made the most of it. Showing a consistency that should be a model for others to follow, Andrew has really come into his own in his new position. Congratulations to him for being named employee of the month!

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Youth Funding Youth Ideas

Next deadline for YFYI applications are due March 1, 2007 @ 8 PM. If you have any questions, please contact Andrea Juarez.

Check out our February highlighted projects:

How to Break the Cycle (GirlSource)

How to Break the Cycle is a project created by young women to encourage young women to take care of themselves and each other by educating themselves and reaching out to their communities.  This will be done through a one day conference which aims to create a sisterhood amongst young women in attendance. A major focal point of this project is to raise awareness of a commonly overlooked form of violence- the same gender violence that happens between girls in social situations due to societal pressures and oppression.  YFYI is excited about funding a project idea that stems from an issue many young women face alone.  YFYI feels that How to Break the Cycle can be a catalyst for change in the way in which female aggression is perceived and addressed.

The Summit Event

On January the 27th the The Summit Project, that was funded by YFYI, held a college fair for their community at the Willie Brown Center.  This event brought teens from in the bayview district together to learn about what colleges they could attend after high school and about how they can go about receiving financial aid.  There were over 10 colleges that came to show their support and give out information about their school.  After viewing and gathering information from all the colleges the youth made their way to their college awareness workshops.  As a treat for the youth that participated in the event there was also a talent battle with cash money prizes for the winners.  This event was the most positive, youth-led, educational and sustainable event that has taken place in the community in a long time and we want to give props to the youth that put it all together.