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CSC has come a long way in providing the growing population of Chinatown youth with programs that guide them towards positive endeavors and further them in their development as confident and contributing adults. In August of 2001, CSC formally opened a Youth Center facility across the street from our main offices, in order to give youth a place of their own. This comprehensive Youth Center is a place where youth can come to develop leadership skills, enrich themselves educationally, and empower themselves economically and politically in order to improve their own community. The Youth Center also provides a much-needed space in Chinatown for youth to hold weekly social events, as there was no such venue in Chinatown for youth to gather at prior to this. The CSC Youth Center provides an array of workshops and activities. They center mainly on preparing our community’s youth both for higher education, for entering the workforce and for community involvement. Current CSC Youth Center programs include:
“Departures: Chinatown” on KCET website features LACYC student producers Los Angeles PBS station KCET is producing a web story featuring Chinatown. “Departures” is focused on community storytelling, with students using images and audio to create neighborhood landscapes. A team of professionals works with young videographers as they learn multimedia skills and create a community document. Follow the LA Chinatown Youth Council and their work on “Departures” at
"Busing" Many high school students living in Chinatown bus to schools in more prestigious L.A. communities. They believe these schools will provide them with better opportunities to attend college and succeed, as compared to many of the high schools in their own communities which have reputations for being dangerous or lacking adequate college preparatory classes. In “Busing”, several of these students voice their reasons for making the choice to bus or not and how it affected them. In 2005, a focus group at the Youth Center where many CSC youth were vocal about busing out of the Chinatown community to attend high school in the San Fernando Valley lead to this video project. The students wrote their own narratives, identified suitable locations to record various scenes, then helped shoot and edit the film. The video was selected for screening at the 2005 LA Asian Pacific Film Festival by Visual Communications. Christilily Chiv, one of the CSC youth involved in the project, has gone on to become the curator of the Film Festival's Youth Media program Funding support for this project was made possible by The California Endowment - California Works for Better Health and The Whitecap Foundation. |
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