Description:

Youth violence is a social problem that effects many different countries and cultures around the world. The root causes of youth violence, such as poverty, domestic and sexual abuse, war and other contributing factors like drug use and predjudicial beliefs vary from country to country. However, the resulting symptoms of youth violence are universal - feelings of alienation, frustration, and hopelessness are experienced to some extent by both youth offenders and victims regardless of race, gender, religion, nationality or sexual orientation.

This workshop will identify the risk factors and symptoms of youth violence and then explore, in more depth, various forms that youth violence takes worldwide. Workshop participants will examine how these events effect all young people and ways to break the cycle of violence.

Students and teachers will work together to create a Youth Violence Awareness ad, using various modes of technology. Each classroom will compile original photography and/or video, art, and text to produce a 2-5 minute video or automated Powerpoint commercial, driven by an original message of tolerance and youth violence awareness. The completed student commericals will be featured in a virtual "film festival" and "broadcasted" online to share with an international audience.

More information and resources are available at: http://www.magpi.net/programs/youthviolence.html