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Youth Shelters

From: Youth Media Project
Length: 00:05:46

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Ruben Hamming-Green interviewed two members from the Youth Shelters and Family Services, to hear how they are helping homeless youth. Read the full description.

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The piece was intended to spread awareness about the plight of homeless teenagers, who are not taught how to live on their own, and who are inequipped to pull themselves out of their situations... They either work for the minimum wage, or do not work at all, due to their lack of education. But because of their financial difficulties, acquiring an education is nearly impossible for them. The only way out is if an organization, funded by charitable, educated, and financially stable individuals, teaches homeless youth the basics of independent living, and assists in paying for higher education. In Santa Fe, such an organization does exist, however, in many places such organizations do not, and aid will only arrive for homeless youth elsewhere if the concept is spread, when the people of different, often more impoverished. areas are educated about both the general situation and the potentially great, numerable, benifits for society that come with raising the lowest financial tier of society to a higher level- something which only ever happens when the young are given the treatment and quality education they deserve.

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Review of Youth Shelters

This was a very informative piece. The interviewees provide a lot of good information on the youth shelters. However, production wise the majority of the interview could have been condensed. It would have been very interesting to have some of the youth who attend the youth shelter speak on what it is like to be there, why they go there. The 'youth voice' would have been been the cherry atop of this piece and gave a face to the 'youth' of the shelter.

But I really like the amount of information the piece supplied, I just wish it was done in a way that was more spaced out and organized verses throwing the entire interview in without splicing it up.

I also think it would have been interesting to have spoken to some of the community who were opposed to having a youth shelter in their area. It would have given the story a two sided view of how the people who run the shelter view verses those who have a negative view of the shelter.

Overall, it was a interesting piece. It just needs a few tweaks here and there.

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Review of Youth Shelters

A homeless person, most people think they're bums who are too lazy to get jobs, but this piece sheds light on that. This piece gives us great information about the topic of homeless youth. Many of the homeless people are run away youths with no home to return to. John Przyborowski does a good job of informing the listeners about this subject. While the overall piece had good sound levels and the background music had very nice leveling, the stuttering of his voice kinda threw me off. there were interviews with people who were knowledgeable about this subject, but it would have been nice if he had the point of view of the homeless youth. I think the piece would be stronger overall if they had opinion of the youth. Overall it was a good listen.