Cornell’s urban youth program recognized nationally
By Susan Lang

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The First Ever Affordable Fashion Show, held in November at the Boys and Girls Republic in lower Manhattan, highlighted how young people are manipulated by the media, advertising and designer labels to spend more than necessary on clothes and shoes. It was one of programs that garnered extension’s [...]

We are in the midst of planning for our family night and getting ready to start our Youth Community Action training so we wanted you to take a peek at our process.
 

On Saturday, January 12, 2008, six Brooklyn teen leaders got our of their beds early to knock on doors with members of the Young Women and Men of Purpose from Boys and Girls High School. They knocked with the purpose of alerting Bed Stuy residents that the primaries will be held on February 5th! The [...]

And, the winners of the 4- H CLub Elections (l-r) are:
President: Kimani Lewis-Ashley, HSS
Vice President: Elba Lopez, HSS
Treasurer: Cindy Lawrence, HSS
Recording Secretary: Marleny Cabral, HSS
Corresponding Secretary: Cathy, HSS
Recreation Leader: Jessica Perez, HSS

President: Sherrye Safford, PAL
Vice President: Todd Wallace, PAL
Treasurer: TBA
Recording Secretary: Christina Berry, PAL
Corresponding Secretary: Nazma June, PAL
Recreation Leader: Robin Johnson, PAL

Holiday Greetings! In the new year, we will reveal our new members of the 4-H cabinet!
Stay tuned!

Three Broome County CITY Project Teen Leaders traveled to Albany to meet the Governors Wife. Accompanied by Donald Cole – Program Leader for Liberty Partnership/ Binghamton University, teen leaders visited the assembly, interacted with legislatures and talked with the First Lady. Teen Leaders had the opportunity to explain how Broome and NYC have partnered together and are making a difference [...]

On February 20th, 2007, the Brooklyn team leaders met the Lower East Side team leaders for the very first time. They bonded over a nutritious lunch and a viewing of Gridiron Gang.  After the movie, they discussed the major themes and which ones they would like to tackle as a team in a community service [...]

So today, a group of us are learning how to add pictures and content to our site. This way we can keep all members up to date on whats going on at meetings and events. It will be also be a good way to keep citizens informed about all the great things we’re doing in [...]

Today we are learning to put up our own posts & how to update our very own site. There are only a few of us that are allowed to do it & it is pretty cool to be able to do. If you keep checking back, soon we will have lots of stuff for you [...]

6101On November 21 our CITY Project Technology Specialist, Celeste Carmichael, conducted an on-site website development training for the CITY Project team in Broome County.
The CITY Team learned how to link to other websites, such as CYFERnet
  This is a photograph taken by Asia as part of her community mapping project.