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Empowering Media Smart Youth and Communities Fall 2009
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Media & Children, Why the Concern?
Violence Against Women, Female Teens, Surges on TV LA times Article Good News
"Team Hannah" Premiere
Teens of the "Media Power and You" workshop held a premiere of their documentary in their town, Peterborough, NHLedger-Transcript Article
EventsNovember 12, 2009
"Girl's & Media, Get Real!"
Christa Zuber, MPY,
New Outlook Teen Center
Exeter, NH
November 9, 2009
"Is a Computer or Cell phone coming Between you and Your Teen?"
Rona Zlokower & Christa Zuber, MPY
Hopkinton School
District
Middle/High schools supported by NHPIRC
November 12, 2009
"Raising Media Smart Children"
Rona Zlokower & Christa Zuber, MPY
Hopkinton School
District Elementary\Schools
supported by NHPIRC
November 19, 2009
"Raising Media Smart Children"
Rona Zlokower & Christa Zuber, MPY Seacoast Charter School Exeter School district, Kingston, NH November 21, 2009
"Battle for Your Brain"
Christa Zuber, MPY
Teens of Belknap County Coaliton, Freedom, NH November 24, 2009
"Media & Big Alcohol"
Laura Burbine, MPY
Newport Schools, Newport, NH December 10, 2009
Web Event "Team Hannah Documentary Premiere"
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NH Youth Create,
Produce and Distribute Prevention Media
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Media Power Youth joined with prevention coalitions and NH youth
in several Media
Power and You production workshops in Winchester
and Peterborough
this summer. Students learned media
literacy (to decode media messages, how media is constructed and influences
behavior) before joining together in the full production of prevention-based
PSAs (Public Service Announcements) about underage substance use. To see PSA's:
http://www.mediapoweryouth.org/youth.html
Teens of Positive Impact Media in Peterborough, NH participate in Media Power and YOU in Action, a media production workshop, led by Media Power Youth this past summer.
The Media Power Youth Crew, Creating Positive Change, Peterbourgh, under guidance of Media Power
Youth, also produced a short-subject documentary, "Team Hannah," about Hannah Nowicki, a
developmentally disabled adult, and caregivers who help the Contoocook
Valley Transportation Company (CVTC) Volunteer Driver Program. The teens documented the community-wide impact
of "Team Hannah's" willingness and positive attitude. The documentary, shown
in the NH Film Festival and the Newburyport Documentary Film
Festival, will air December 10 at 4pm on www.mediapoweryouth.org. See story below.
"Teaching youth to produce media with healthy messages is a
powerful tool in preventing at-risk health behaviors," says Sam LaFortune,
director of Creating Positive Change, Peterborough.
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Join In from Your Computer, Dec. 10 for Live Screening of NH Youth Produced Documentary, "Team Hannah"
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Join us from your computer on Thursday, December 10, at 4pm  for
a live stream airing of the 6-minute "Team Hannah" documentary,
produced by Peterborough
youth with guidance from Media Power Youth. Following the airing, John
Herman,
Media Power Youth's Emerging Media Trainer and Rona Zlokower, MPY
Executive Director, will talk live with you
about youth media production and its role in prevention and community
building.
Team Hannah recently premiered at the Newburyport Documentary Film
Festival as well as the New Hampshire Film Festival. Don't miss this
special showing on your computer.
Check www.mediapoweryouth.org for details
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Baby Einstein Video Rebates Offered Following Complaints on Their Value
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Campaign for Commercial Free
Childhood (CCFC) has influenced the Walt Disney Company to offer a full refund for a limited time to anyone who purchased a Baby
Einstein DVD believing the videos would make their babies smarter. 
As a result of CCFC's
2006 Federal Trade Commission complaint and continued lobbying, Disney
stopped claiming that Baby Einstein videos were educational for infants and
then offered to compensate purchasers.
Recent research shows that screen time is not educational
for babies. The American
Academy of Pediatrics
recommends no screen time for children under two.
"The CCFC action shows how we can protect families and
children from spending money on products with no proven benefit", says Rona Zlokower, Executive Director, Media Power
Youth. "Infants benefit the most from direct contact with caretakers and simple,
safe infant toys that they can touch, hear, and move."
For info or presentations on media and children, contact: media@mediapoweryouth.org
CCFC Article
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VISTA Employees Boost
Media Power Youth's Capacity
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Christa Zuber and
Ryan Plaisted, full-time AmeriCorps
VISTA volunteers with the Manchester VISTA Project, have joined Media Power
Youth to assist with technology, curriculum & afterschool program design, and
resource development. Bringing years of
experience in media and education, Christa and Ryan will help Media Power Youth
build capacity and support for sustained programming.
New Americorps Vistas, Ryan Plaisted, left and Christa Zuber, seated, with Vista Coordinator,
Lydia Henry
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Foundation Grants Promote Media Power Youth's Statewide Presence...
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Thank you to the NH Charitable Foundation and McIninch Foundation for strategic planning and capacity to disseminate programs statewide, the Gruber Foundation for operating support, a two-year HNHfoundation grant for operating support, Norwin S. and Elizabeth N. Bean Foundation and Bank of America Foundation for programs for underserved populations, the Monarchs Foundation, NH Bureau of Drug & Alcohol Services and Division for Children, Youth & Families Incentive Funds for training Community Prevention Coalitions and health-focused media literacy in Manchester and Hillsborough County schools. Cogswell Foundation, Verizon, Hess Family Foundation and Manchester Regional Community Foundation grants supported the development of the school programs.
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Media Power Youth empowers youth to lead healthy, safe lives through
smart use of media.
Media Power Youth,
a NH nonprofit based in Manchester, collaborates with public health and
prevention programs, school districts and communities to create and
implement evidence-based programs that help youth resist the negative
influences of media, understand media's role in creating social norms,
and empower youth to use and produce media responsibly to avoid
at-risk behaviors and promote healthy choices. Contact us: media@mediapoweryouth.org www.mediapoweryouth.org |
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