Community Outreach & Training
Youth Radio offers training series and workshops at various schools, institutions and community-based organizations throughout the Bay Area. The outreach programs reach young people who are not able to make it to our on-site classes.
Outreach workshops are tailored to the particular needs of the hosting sites, and focus heavily on critical thinking, positive youth development, and media literacy, in addition to basic radio production skills. We hope that students exposed to Youth Radio through outreach eventually will be able to come to our facility for more advanced training.
 View short videos on current Youth Radio sites like Camp Sweeney, and former outreach sites including Balboa, Berkeley, and Richmond High Schools.
· Balboa High
· Berkeley High
· Camp Sweeney
· Richmond High
Some of our other sites include:
Camp Sweeney
Building on our commitment to serve incarcerated youth, Youth Radio offers training and classes for young men, ages 14-17, at Camp Sweeney in San Leandro, California. Professional staff and peer educators teach basic radio broadcasting; commentary writing; music production; and creative radio-based expression including plays and montages, that help participants express their social reality. At the end of the eight-week session, they produce a public affairs program for KPFB and Youth Radio's web radio station.
 Listen to the radio show produced by the youth from Camp Sweeney.
Community Action Program (CAP)
Funded through the City of Oakland’s 2004 crime prevention bill, Measure Y, CAP is Youth Radio’s outreach program solely for Oakland youth who come from challenging backgrounds. Designed as a six-month training with an option for employment, CAP students are prepared during their initial 6-months of the program to become peer educators within the Youth Radio internship program. Along the way, students gain intensive training around radio broadcasting, music production, journalism, graphic production, and dating violence issues.
EAOP
EAOP at Berkeley prepares students from under-resourced communities for admission to the University of California and other colleges and universities. This past summer, students worked with Youth Radio peer educators to produce roundtable discussions, commercials with positive messages, and radio commentaries.
Listen to a roundtable discussion the youth produced on violence in Bay Area schools.
Listen to another group of EAOP youth talk about how the media portrays global violence.
Mission Girls: A Project of Girls Sound-Off
Girls Sound Off is a creative radio, video and writing training program that provides a much needed opportunity for girls and young women to explore how media affects their ideas on issues like sexuality, race and identity. The eight week sessions take place at foster care facilities, group homes and community programs that exclusively focus on the healthy development of girls and young women. The summer 2006 site took place at Mission Girls, a non-profit organization serving young women in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District.
Oakland Public Library: Fruitvale
Outreach condujo su primer seminario en español! El tema fue sobre 'cómo la
media corporativa crea el estereotipo del Latino inmigrante.' Esto tomo lugar
en el verano del 2006, en el biblioteca de Fruitvale en Oakland, California.
Lo siguiente son anuncios públicos producidos por 9 participantes Latinos
quienes compartieron con nosotros sus experiencias cómo inmigrantes y el
interes que tienen de ayudar a su comunidad.
The Outreach Department conducted its first Spanish workshop, during the summer of 2006 at Oakland's Public Library in Fruitvale! The workshop focused on how the media covers the Latino immigrant community. Featured below are public service announcements produced by 9 Latino participants who talked about their experiences as immigrants and their desire to help the community.
Listen to the bilingual public service announcements produced by students at the Fruitvale workshop.
Immigration Protests
Drug Addiction
Learning English
Teacher Harassment
Outreach Web Radio Show
The outreach department produces a live web radio show from 2-3 pm every other Wednesday of the month to expand outreach beyond organizational borders. We feature a wide selection of international music and media assets produced by the hundreds of students from our different outreach sites. The show is produced and conducted by Samuel Russell and Mariella Thaning.
Youth Uprising
Youth Uprising is a non-profit organization in East Oakland that offers a wide range of programs and services to develop youth leadership iand community transformation. This past summer, Youth Radio conducted a 8-week training at Youth Uprising, working with the youth to develop their own radio show.
Listen to the radio show produced by students from Youth Uprising.
If you are interested in Youth Radio conducting a training series or workshop at your site, contact Mariella Thaning, Program Manager for Community Outreach and Training at (510) 841-5123 or mariella@youthradio.org
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