Learning Objectives: Develop a Youth Empowerment Model which is tailor made for their community, culture, and resources. Understand the disparities between the ideology behind the youth empowerment models and their actual implementation. Identify the causal relationship between specific practices and either sucess or failure.
Abstract: Since the founding of the Florida SWAT/Truth Campaigns in 1998, a mass movement has emerged across the country, mobilizing thousands of youth against an industry that uses lies and manipulation to get them addicted to a deadly product. On this panel, we will have a cross section of programs which have been established around the nation discuss how one basic ideal - Industry Manipulation- has been tailored to their communities and their cultures, and the successes and failures found therein.
Youth founders and members of the National Truth Campaign, Florida SWAT/Truth campaigns, Washington State, New York Reality Check, Minnesota Target Market, West Virginia T3, Wisconsin FACT, Indiana State, Kentucky and others will outline the structure of their campaigns' Youth Empowerment Model and give a brief history. Presenters will then outline the successes and failures of both the structure of their movement and events and occurences of their movements.
A cumulative presentation will then be made outlining the key unifying successful and unsuccessful aspects of the Youth Empowerment Model put into action and Campaign Structure and Implementation, annotated with possible prevention methods, solutions, or alternatives.
1-2 questions will be allowed after each individual program presentation, specific to that individual campaign. A longer Q&A period will be held at the end of the presentation to allow for the audience to relate their personal experiences to those of the panelists’ and find solutions to their problems from the presenters extensive experience and knowledge.
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