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RESOURCES FOR YOUTH: 2008 Confronting Concerns |
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Resources | Youth Programs | 2008 Confronting Concerns | Little Sisters of the Assumption - Report
2008 Confronting ConcernsAccomplishmentsLittle Sisters of the Assumption Program Workshop
In Attendance: Sister Kathleen, Peggy, Brittani, Roshelle, Tene
We met with a small group of young women taking part in a Mentorship program run by LSA at their offices on 115th Street and 2nd Ave. Because the group of girls was younger than the peers the workshop was designed for, and because there was limited time, we decided to cut out aspects of the workshop and condense it a bit.
We started out with a name game that asked everyone to share their name and a motion that represented an aspect of who they are. While many of the girls were shy and hesitated to participate, it was important to do the game to make everyone a bit more comfortable with each other. After the name game, Roshelle did a brief explanation of the Confronting Concerns program, explaining to the girls the purpose of the visit and the importance of our group engaging with youth around the issues of violence, safe sex and drugs-- which were the areas we found that Harlem youth were most concerned.
We began the discussion by asking the students to each share what they were most concerned about in the community. Some issues that were mentioned were crime, domestic abuse, healthcare for families and teasing in school. The girls were then asked to make a connection between two or more of the issues that they described. Once they started to make the connection, they were able to realize the ways in which many of the issues that face the community were interconnected. We were then able to link some of the big issues, to the issues we had identified as a part of the CC surveys.
After this discussion, we broke the girls into two groups and gave them each scenario-- one that focused on the issue of sex and one that focused on violence. Each of the groups had to read over the scenario and then come up with a solution for how they would address this issue. The solution had to be in the form of either a play/skit or a poem/rap. Each of the groups chose a different medium and spent several minutes coming up with their presentation. They each then got to share their presentations with the larger group.
One group did a short skit in which the main character was expereincing relationship abuse. She spoke to her friends about it and tried to get good advice from them about what to do. The students felt that in the end it was important for the main character to speak to her parents or another trusted adult-- many of the girls felt that this was a realistic scenario and was something they had seen happen before.
The other group addressed the issue of a boy pressuring a girl to have sex and presented their ideas in the form of a poem. It was great to see them use creativity in order to address such a serious topic. Overall, the workshop was successful and the CCIII leaders felt that they were able to share the project and engage the young women in a meaningful discussion about issues that affect them.
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