Collaborators

Hyde Square Task Force Health Careers Ambassadors Program (HCAP): Beginning in October of 2005, Team Mita will be collaborating with the HCAP program. The peers are funded to do an intensive job shadowing training within the different departments of the SJPHC so they can learn about the various health career opportunities available to them. They will also receive additional training at the Hyde Square Task Force in job and college readiness.

To learn more about this program please contact Yi Chin email yichin@hydesquare.org

Urban Improv: We hooked up with our fellow youth organizers from SCORE Mediation Program at English High School and The Hyde Square Task Force and started doing this violence prevention program for young people at English High. UI uses structured theater improvisation to teach decision-making, impulse control, and values clarification to teens. We liked doing it so last year that we are working with UI this year to train as actors so that we can use the UI method in our teaching. We begin this “theater institute” in October.

Click here to learn more about Urban Improv.

Peace Drum: We have been doing this program at English High School for 3 years. Designed to provide Boston teens with quality after-school arts programming and leadership training, The Peace Drum Project helps teens develop artistic, problem solving and critical thinking skills together. We learn a variety of performing and visual arts skills like acting, storytelling, drum making and playing, bookmaking, journals, banner-making and other forms of expression. The Peace Drum Project is also an arts-based community service project bringing us together with senior citizens from the same Boston neighborhoods to help them tell their stories to the larger community. We work together to create Peace Drums, which are visual stories about their own lives.

Click here to learn more and see the drums we made in 2004: Team MITA Drums

Youth Affairs Committee: We joined the Youth Affairs Committee (YAC) in May of 2004. After an increase in murders, stabbings and shootings in JP we decided that we needed expand our focus beyond sexual health and organize with our fellow peer leadership groups. The mission of the YAC is to advocate for children of all ages and to provide an opportunity for teens to participate in the democratic process. Our current focus has been to lobby at the state level for more funding for summer jobs, reduce the amount of sexual harassment in Jamaica Plain and advocate with city planners for a youth center in Jackson Square . The chair of the YAC sits on the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council.

To find out more please contact: Jesús Gerena, email jesus@hydesquare.org

Tree of Life/ Arbol De Vida: To learn more call (617) 522-4832