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Job Posting
Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institute
Job Title: Youth Development Program Coordinator Assistant
Part-Time 25 hours/week, $15/hr.
Monday-Friday,1-6pm
Competitive salary commensurate with experience.
Description of Organization:
The Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institute connects and promotes the cultures and traditions of Africans brought to the Americas from the 15th to 19th centuries.
The Division of Education provides transformative learning experiences for youth and adults through cultural arts workshops, teaching artist residencies, professional developments, concerts, lectures, and other learning opportunities. Our programs are meant to instill historical context, affirm identity and pride in African heritage, assuring knowledge of self, and opportunities to learn about and share culture for community uplifting and stability.
The Next Gen Leadership Program seeks to grow a passionate and talented cadre of youth leaders of African descent hailing from the 84th Assembly district under Assembly woman Carmen Arroyo. This program will provide youth with the career, personal, and political skills they need to address the most pressing issues facing their communities, preparing to be America’s next generation of founders, executive directors, business owners, and artists. Based in the South Bronx and a partnership between
The Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institute and United Bronx Parents, Inc., the program will provide 25 youth ages 14-18 with:
v A mentor in the non-profit arts, community, and non-profit industry that they will shadow once a week.
v Political education and personal development sessions on leadership and communities of color featuring New York’s most inspiring and influential leaders of African descent working in the diverse fields of community, government, business, not-for-profit, and cultural arts industries.
v Cultural arts education, life-planning skills, team-building activities, and trips exploring New York City’s cultural arts, political, and community locations city-wide.
v An opportunity to design and implement a youth-led community transformation project from start to finish.
v A stipend and an opportunity to be employed by New York City’s leading non-profit organizations serving communities of the African Diaspora.
The Program Coordinator Assistant reports to the Program Coordinator, the Director of Education and the President at CCCADI and designs all programs with the support of the above mentioned.
The Program coordinator Assistant is responsible for supporting the Coordinator in all aspects of design and implementation of the program, including:
v Designing & implementing a curriculum that meets the above-mentioned goals.
v Outreach and application process for youth and internship sites/mentors.
v Scheduling a calendar for youth, adult mentors, teaching artists, and guest speakers.
v Helping youth successfully design and implement their community transformation final projects.
v Orienting parents, youth, schools, and internship sites on expected roles and responsibilities and managing successful partnerships with community groups.
v Marketing & Publicity, evaluation, and fundraising (with support from CCCADI) around the project.
v Managing the budget.
The successful candidate possesses the following qualities:v Willing to embody the leadership they seek to impart to youth. Has developed and lives by a holistic definition of leadership that incorporates the personal, academic, social, and spiritual self.
v Driven, committed, great sense of humor, collaborative, works fantastically well under pressure, independent self-starter and manager, creative, dynamic, reliable, honest, humble, caring, with a strong work ethic.
v Talented Curriculum planner & educator.
v Believer and practitioner of cultural arts.
v A people person who knows how to deal with diverse personalities and draw out youth and adult potential.
v Possesses and builds strong relationships with youth and executive directors, presidents, and leaders of South Bronx and African Diaspora communities.
v A detail-oriented person who knows how to deliver results.
v Familiar with the history of community-led social justice movements including the Young Lords, Black Panthers, Affordable Housing, Education, Parents Organizing, Cultural Arts, Civil Rights, other social justice movements.
v Comfortable and familiar with African-based spiritual traditions.
v 2+ years experience designing and implementing education, cultural arts, youth development, leadership or community organizing programs for youth of color.
To apply, please send a 1-page cover letter, a resume with 2 references, and any other material that represents your ability to work on this program to:
Manuela Arciniegas
Director of Education
CCCADI
408 West 58 Streets
New York, NY 10019
Re: UBP Job Search
Or via email:
education@cccadi.org. Put UBP Job Search in the subject line.

You are cordially invited to join us at “Rebooting the News: Reconsidering an Agenda for American Civic Education,” Oct. 23-25, 2008 in Philadelphia. It’s a short, strategic convening for journalists, teachers, educational administrators, public-policy researchers and engaged citizens.
WHAT’S THE CHALLENGE?
We’re gathering because there is an epic change underway in the way American citizens prepare themselves for self government. And it’s time to consider what to do about it.
Younger Americans are abandoning traditional news products in large numbers. Yet a growing number of teen-agers and young adults are highly engaged with media in multiple forms. American newspapers endure their worst year in decades; yet the Daily Koz political website records 33 million “hits” in one month and online political fund-raising is setting records.
If you are a journalist, teacher, public-policy researcher or engaged citizen, you’re probably concerned: Do these changes threaten participatory democracy . . . or promise to enliven it?
This year, the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) adopted news literacy as a critical focus for its membership with a kickoff gathering in August at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.
Next, The Media Giraffe Project, the Media Education Lab at Temple University and the National Constitution Center invite you to help answer this question – and develop a set of “news literacy’ strategies for the nation.
A CALL TO ACTION
That’s why we want you to come to Philadelphia from Thurs. Oct. 23-Sat. Oct. 25 – or even just for the day on Saturday if you can’t get away from the weekly schedule – for an informal constitutional convention in the shadow of Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. Forget about panels and audience. Surrounded by some introductory background briefings, we’ll roll up our sleeves with circle-round agenda sessions, ad-hoc breakouts and stories about specific projects and approaches.
With “Rebooting the News: Reconsidering an Agenda for American Civic Education,” we hope to answer questions such as: “How can we best help young people engage with news media in ways that help them understand and contribute to contemporary society?” We’ll also:
* Share classroom and newsroom experiences that are working.
* Learn how to promote active, reflective and critical participation in news/current events.
* Learn about the ASNE initiative, and news-literacy at Stony Brook University.
* Create fertile ground for discussion among journalists and teachers leading to a major 2009 news-literacy initiative.
* Formulate specific advice to the U.S. presidential candidates on American civic education for the new century.
WHO’S COMING
Join Renee Hobbs, of Temple University’s Media Education Lab; Howard Schneider, dean of the Stony Brook University School of Journalism; Ellen Hume of the Center for Future Civic Media at MIT; and a host of other invited and confirmed participants. For a preview of some of our invitees, go to:
http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-invitees
SAVE 30% BY REGISTERING RIGHT NOW | REGISTRATION STIPENDS AVAILABLE
If you want to attend and (1) need additional financial assistance, or (2) have a specific idea for a briefing session, contact us by email at mediagiraffe@journ.umass.edu.

Preemptive Education: Language, Identity & Power
Urban Word NYC’s Annual Mentor, Teacher, Educator & Community Activist Training (Sept. 25 -Sept. 28 at NYU)
Preemptive Education aims to examine the issues that affect today’s youth, while providing creative and practical resources to address them. Using the power of spoken word poetry and hip-hop as the lens to explore language and privilege, participants will learn best practices in student-centered pedagogy from professionals in the fields of education, youth development, and spoken word & hip-hop. Combining performance, panel discussion, and professional development workshops, Preemptive Education will provide comprehensive opportunities for educators of all levels.
Opening Panel and Youth Performance: FREE to the Public
FRIDAY Sept 26, 7-9pm
Room 703, Silver Center
WORD LIFE:An Evening of Performance and Conversation on Language, Identity & Power
This dynamic performance and panel series will start at the word. Three poems with three panels will interact and converge in a conversation that uses spoken word poetry to reclaim identities and challenge inequities around language, privilege and power. Using each poem as a starting point, panelists will address and illuminate issues around language privilege, youth voice, and social justice. Young poets from Urban Word NYC will provide the platform from which respondents and panelists will vision a new dialogue around the transformative power of spoken word poetry and the pedagogies that champion the voices of the next generation.

Free after school video programs for NYC students
Open Houses September 22nd – 26th
4-6 PM at Global Action Project
All of G.A.P.’s programs are free and open to youth city-wide who are from traditionally underserved communities (i.e., low income, youth of color, immigrant and refugee, LGBTQ identified, etc.). Young people do not need any video experience; just an interest and commitment to exploring social issues and promote change through media and an ability to make a commitment to the program from Oct. 2008 – June 2009. Travel costs and snacks provided for all participants.
G.A.P. is now recruiting youth for our after school programs! Programs start on the week of October 20th!
Space is limited for all programs so once they’re filled a waiting list will begin.If you have know any young people interested in attending any of these programs or if you are interested in having G.A.P. come do a presentation to your school/organization, please contact Teresa Basilio at 212-594-9577 or via e-mail; teresa@global-action.org.
Committed to social justice, G.A.P. works with young people most affected by injustice to build the knowledge, tools, and relationships needed to create media for community power, cultural expression, and political change. G.A.P.’s programs combine a dynamic mix of media production, social justice, youth leadership and popular education.

The Youth Media Learning Network seeks applicants from the greater New York City area to participate in the second annual cohort of the Youth Media Fellowship, a nine-month-long professional development opportunity for youth media educators.
The Fellowship offers participants a rich and unique opportunity to examine closely their work and the work of young people within a diverse and dynamic community of peer practitioners. Fellows come together in a supported, sustained, and facilitated setting intended to engage them as experts from the field, to promote collaborative learning, and to inspire emerging leadership.
The application deadline for the Youth Media Fellowship is September 22nd, 2008.
For application instructions and more information, please see the attached ‘Call for Applications’ or contact Timothy Dorsey at 212.807.4214 or tdorsey@edc.org.
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The Youth Media Learning Network is an initiative intended to promote professional development for the youth media field on a national scale. The central goals of the Learning Network are to: strengthen youth media teaching and learning practices; extend the reach of best practices from youth media work; foster communities of reflection for youth media educators; and support the development of sustainable peer learning networks across local regions.
As a pilot initiative, the Youth Media Learning Network is a joint project of the Educational Video Center (EVC) and the Education Development Center (EDC), with support from the Open Society Institute and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.