Stand Connects with Tomorrow’s Leaders at V-Team Community Youth Forum
06.22.2009 // by: Alison
Stand spent a fun and enlightening morning at The Bethlehem Center talking with 65 kids from across the Chattanooga region. The V-Team, which is made up of teens from all over Alton Park and its surrounding neighborhoods, got together with Lookout Mountain Presbyterian’s youth group to discuss what they love and what they would love to see change about where they live.
The conversation began with everyone filling out Stand’s four-question survey. The teens’ responses were then compiled into word clouds, which were used to open group dialogue. Across zip codes, the kids found common ground in their love for local schools, parks and restaurants; their frustration with drugs, littering and homelessness; and, of course, the unanimous desire for a water park. The morning closed with hand-drawn word cloud projects made by the youth to visually represent their hopes and ideas. These nine group projects will be on public display at Nightfall this Friday.
You can see coverage of the Youth Forum on both WDEF/News12’s and WTVC/NewsChannel9’s Six O’Clock News. Also, flip the radio to Groove 93.5 from 7-8 pm this evening to hear the coordinators of the event — The V-Team’s Lurone “Coach” Jennings and Stand’s Craig Van Korlaar — chat about today’s forum and Chattanooga’s future.
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