Justin Ramos
Senn High School Alumni
Wright College Freshmen

Wouldn't it be great for all youth and adults in a community to work together on an issue? The answer in our hearts is YES! On Friday, January 29, 2010 at 4:00 PM, ONE youth and youth organizers had a meeting with some of the great youth programs in the Uptown community. In the meeting the youth and adults discussed possible ideas that youth can do to prevent violence in the community. Many great thoughts were brought up in the meeting and a committment was made by everyone at the meeting to follow up on these ideas.

Some ideas that were brought up were:

* Have a festival with stations where the youth do many different things, such as: foot working, dancing, making a mural, or even spoken word.

* Have a food drive and have ONE go green

* Make a documentary of interviews with youth talking about our communities.

The overall fact is no matter what the ideas are the youth CAN and WILL take action and stop violence from happening in our community!