Fall River Youth Services
Coordinator Christian McCloskey and Massachusetts
Promise Fellow Annemarie Sharkey brought over 50 young people from
B.M.C. Durfee High School, Bishop Connolly and Diman Regional High School
together on September 21, 2010 for a YOUth
VOICE (Volunteer Organizations to Increase Community Engagement)
planning session. YOUth VOICE is a "super group" comprised
of representatives from several youth leadership groups who are actively
involved in making a difference in their community. The mission of YOUth
VOICE is to connect the different groups to each other, to provide
leadership training, to offer an opportunity to share information, to
increase civic engagement, and to work collaboratively to develop a youth
action plan for the City of Fall River.
Click
here for the Herald News article. For more
information about
the project contact
Christian McCloskey at 508-324-2419, or
Annemarie Sharkey at
508-679-0922..
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(Top row, left
and center) Fall
River Youth Services Coordinator Christian McCloskey welcomes the
group before introducing Teen
Empowerment leader Sapna Padte. (Top row, right) Evan Darmody
describes the tableau that his group created to illustrate one of the America's
Promise five basic promises. (Middle row, center) Massachusetts
Promise Fellow Annemarie Sharkey goes over some of the ideas that the
groups came up with for community service projects. (Middle row, right)
Students illustrate effective education, one of the five promises. (Bottom
row, left and center) Durfee Junior Ben Feitelberg and Sophomore Ryan
Kennedy lead their groups in tableaus illustrating the promises. (Bottom
row, right) UMass Urban
Initiative Director Ed Lambert urges the youth to be more involved in
creating a better community.
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