Changing the Narrative is a Connectopod series created with youth in communities that get a bad rap in the media. This is an intro episode for our third season, Changing the Narrative: Unhoused Youth, we are in residence at The Village Family Services in North Hollywood working with drop in center director Alejandro Soria. The TAY (Transitional Age Youth) get personal about homelessness, including issues surrounding mental health, LGBTQ discrimination, pandemic madness, domestic violence, attending college, finding work, dealing with addiction, and how to rise above their situation. Mostly, they just want to be teens.
The series content will be created in one on one interviews. Then the TAY will work remotely and individually with a professional media guest artist to create an episode about whatever they want, however they want to tell it. Will it be personal narratives? Straight out journalism? Activism? Creative fiction? Music? Comedy? It is their story to tell.
Interviewees: Dir. Counselor Alejandro Soria, Youth Peer Counselor Bobby Villa
Produced by Betsy Foldes Meiman
Theme Song 'True' by Haunted Horses NYC
This project is supported in part by NBC 4 /Telemundo Project Innovation, UCLA/Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity, The Max Factor Family Foundation, and for our new audio lab- Rastonea Records and Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey. Thanks to Kenny Merrill and Kevin Kapler for setting it up.
Changing the Narrative-Unhoused Youth:Christopher Martin
Changing the Narrative-Unhoused Youth: Stories of the TAY Phillip Hargro
Changing the Narrative: Unhoused Youth-The Greatest Christmas Story Ever Told
Changing the Narrative Unhoused Youth-Stories of the TAY: Matthew
Changing the Narrative-Unhoused Youth: Shedding Light on Our Truth by Gayle Alvarez
Changing the Narrative Unhoused Youth-Stories of the TAY: Daniel
Changing the Narrative Unhoused Youth -Stories of the TAY: La Lupe
Changing the Narrative: Unhoused Youth -Stories of the TAY: Gayle
Reflect Connect: Connectopod Contributor Highlight- Laz Meiman
Changing the Narrative, Episode 3 Wanting to Live
The Reflect/Connect episode 1: An interview with Connectopod correspondent Angie Benitez
LAPL NoHo workshop practice- Gen & Anthony "No Bad Ideas"
LAPL NoHo workshop practice- Elliot & Kai "Pain. And Mall Cops"
LAPL NoHo workshop practice-Leslie & Ivonne "Being a Teenager Sucks"
LAPL NoHo workshop practice-Katherine and Diego 'Beer vs. Virus'
Changing the Narrative - Pacoima episode 10: Pacoima Personal
Changing the Narrative-Pacoima: episode 9 Gamers
Changing the Narrative-Pacoima episode 8: A Murder Mystery
Changing the Narrative - Pacoima episode 7: The Vaughn Experience
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