Keep high risk inner-city students in school

Summary

Walking the Path gives high risk students the chance to examine the personal challenges they face and the confidence to overcome these hurdles to achieve success in school, society and life project reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Walking the Path builds literacy and technology skills with at-risk middle and high school students who society has failed. These are students who have fallen through the cracks of our educational system and society as a result of the overwhelming stress they face in their personal lives, whether it be from domestic violence, poverty, gang activity or drugs. Students learn photography and audio/video skills through a series of activities that culminate in the making of auto-biographical movies

Activities

Students build their literacy and digital skills, and reflect on their experiences to regain interest in school and heal emotionally from their traumas. Activities include writing scripts, and learning video editing.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $8,845
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $1,155
Total Funding Goal: $10,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

In Walking the Path, we use art therapy to help high-risk students overcome their past traumas and rebuild their interest in learning, ensuring they stay in school and on the path to success.

Project Message

"Walking the Path uses video as a powerful medium to illicit emotions and start the healing process."
- Barbara Cavallo, Associate Executive Director of Programs

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Liz Roy
Staff
299 Broadway
Suite 1300
New York, NY 10007
United States
212.689.9500
Email:

Project Sponsor

Liz Roy

Organization

Partnership With Children, Inc.
299 Broadway Suite 1300
New York, NY 10007
United States
212.689.9500
http://www.partnershipwithchildrennyc.org

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in United StatesUnited States and can also be found under ChildrenChildren.

For more information about United States, read the Human Development Report on United States or the Wikipedia entry for United States.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on February 24, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 29, 2009

Latest Update from the Field

Capturing Life in Images and Words

By Liz Roy - Communications Manager, February 24, 2010 12:30 PM

We're happy to report that the frigid winter temperatures did not scare away our students from venturing into their neighborhoods to take photos and video of their home surroundings as part of our Walking the Path program! The surroundings are the backdrop to the students' personal stories about the events that have shaped their lives thus far.

Luckily the writing component of Walking the Path involves indoor work however, so students were able to warm up as they honed their writing and editing skills. A crucial aspect of Walking the Path is building students literacy skills. This entails not just their ability to write about their lives eloquently, but also to edit their peers' work.

A deeply personal experience, the process of creating their autobiographical digital stories in Walking the Path is both self-exploratory and a means for building real-life skills in computer digital editing programs and literacy.

We'll have photos to post soon!

Thank you for your continuing support of Walking the Path.

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