Help youth create communities of respect

Summary

Camp Everytown is a 4-day retreat for high school youth that helps reduce stereotypes, bias and prejudice among teens creating communities of respect and appreciation.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

Camp Everytown provides high school youth in Silicon Valley and Northern California with the skills to break down the barriers to participation and peer pressures that create the social isolation, misconceptions and inter-group rivalries that eventually lead to potential violent episodes on school campuses.

How will this project solve this problem?

The curriculum focus is on experiential learning through guided activities and discussion which allows students to get to know each other on a deeper level. “Camp made me conscious of other people’s pain,” says a Camp Everytown youth alum.

Potential Long Term Impact

Camp Everytown empowers youth to be catalysts for change breaking down racism, ethnic discrimination and intolerance in all its forms, thus helping to reduce incidents of violence in our community.

Project Message

“It honestly changes your world view, how you approach others, and your life.”
- Celine Nguyen, High school student

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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