Help youth create communities of respect
SummaryCamp 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. |
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
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.
Activities
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.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $7,373
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $13,627
Total Funding Goal: $21,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
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
“Suspensions are lower, expulsions are lower, grades are up, kids are becoming leaders not just on campus but in the community – all of those things are happening because of Everytown.”
- Dr. Peggy Raun-Linde, Principal, Fremont High School, Sunnyvale CA
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Ron Muriera
Project Leader
777 North First Street, #220
San Jose, California 95112
United States
408-286-9663
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Silicon Valley FACES
777 N First St #220
San Jose,
CA
95112
United States
408-286-9663
http://www.svfaces.org
Where this Project is Located
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United States
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Education.
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When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 29, 2009
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