Tag: Youth
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For Inner-City Kids, Time Spent Outdoors Builds Confidence
Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Megan Burks As a group of kids scrambled like lizards up a towering rock formation, Shantell Lacy stayed back in the shade. She swatted flying ants from a pile of backpacks and talked about her son, Jahvi. “I’m scared of heights, but he’s a daredevil.…
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Teens and Safety Series: What Time of Day is City Heights Safest?
By Brian Myers In the second video of an eight part series on teens and safety in City Heights, Crawford High School students discuss the time of day they feel most safe in City Heights. An analysis by Speak City Heights partner Voice of San Diego found that “daytime” might not be the easy answer.…
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Schools Offer Kids Free Summer Lunch
By Samantha Wadley Children all over San Diego are able to enjoy fun games and free lunches this summer thanks to San Diego Unified’s Summer Fun Café program. The program, which had only six locations when it began 10 years ago, now offers 69 sites where children ages 2 to 18 can enjoy a healthy meal,…
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Finding Resolution Through Dance
Dancers in City Heights’ transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project explore conflict resolution for an upcoming dance performance. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Megan Burks Behind a metal security gate on a busy stretch of University Avenue, teenagers gather to work out choreography for an upcoming dance performance. When the music…
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Tweet City Heights: Obama Grants DREAMers Deportation Relief
By Megan Burks Executive Order Grants DREAMers Deportation Relief, Work Permits The big news this morning: President Obama announced an executive order that could spare hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation. The new policy grants temporary legal status and work permits to immigrants younger than 30 years old whom were brought to…