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
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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: $6,100
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $3,900
Total Funding Goal: $10,000
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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
Organization
Partnership With Children, Inc.
299 Broadway Suite 1300
New York,
NY
10007
United States
212.689.9500
http://www.partnershipwithchildrennyc.org
Where this Project is Located
Country
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United States
and can also be found under 
Children.
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 November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 29, 2009
Latest Update from the Field
Great start to a new schoolyear!
By Liz Roy - Communications and Community Outreach Manager, October 08, 2009 11:45 AM
We are very happy to report that 14 Partnership with Children staff members have been trained to implement our Walking the Path program in six school sites.
They will conduct our new Writer’s Workshops that focus on building students’ writing skills through the use of individual journals, peer editing sessions, and group writing activities.
These new components will strengthen students’ script-writing, the basis of their autobiographical digital stories.
Through such self-reflective activities, our students are able to explore the challenges they have faced in their lives, while also building skills to improve their academic performance.
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