School Aged Youth Meeting - First Session

I am working with the White Plains Youth Bureau for my group of youth to interview for my thesis. I had my first meeting with the School Age Youth tonight and it was successful. As a whole they were very open to the idea and gave me some good feedback. I am providing a list of the general comments/suggestions from tonight and will then start some other posts for more specific comments.

Comments/Suggestions from the School Aged Youth

Dance: teens offering dance classes to the elderly and preschool children to get them moving.

Mentor program: develop a program where the elderly mentor the school age youth and the school age youth mentor the preschool children.

Provide opportunities to bond

Segregated Areas - NO!! All areas should be open to all groups.

Technology: bring someone in to teach classes, classes should include the elderly and the preschool children at the same time.

Music: utilize music to bring the groups together. Everyone likes music, use it to bridge the gap.


Tonight there was also a librarian from the public library speaking with the group about a teen center they are looking to create in the library. She discussed some of the information they had obtained from the locals they had interviewed regarding their project research.