In an effort designed to strengthen the safety of New Hampshire’s communities by helping parents, professionals, and youth understand media’s role in influencing behavior, the State of New Hampshire has begun a public-private initiative aimed at reducing and preventing youth violence.
Funded through a grant from the Office of the Attorney General, the initiative is designed to enable Manchester-based Media Power Youth, a nonprofit organization and leader in media literacy education, to offer free teacher training and curricula to elementary schools statewide with technical support from the New Hampshire Department of Education. In addition, middle and high school programs and parent programs will be provided in selected communities.
The Media Power Youth plan is for the public-private partnership to bring together leaders from the fields of criminal justice, law enforcement, education, health and human services, health care, foundations, and business, as well as parents and community members.
Media Power Youth strives to utilize evidence-based practices and programs that have been found to be effective by independent evaluation and review. Evaluations have shown that Media Power Youth programs help students actively speak about the negative aspects of media and increase their understanding of advertising influences and techniques in order to make their own healthy choices.
Media report:
Concord Monitor: State-funded program to target youth violence through media literacy (3 DEC 13)
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