[media] Using the Media to Promote Adolescent Well-Being
The Spring 2008 policy brief entitled Using the Media to Promote Adolescent Well-Being from the Princeton Brookings Institute series on The Future of Children spotlights the wave of youth focused media in today's society.
Adolescent media use has exploded. Parents are worried that teens are drowning in messages about sex, smoking, drinking, consumer goods, and a host of other behaviors and products that threaten their health and well-being. This brief advocates fighting fire with fire by creative use of media to provide youth with positive messages that counteract the negative and potentially damaging messages to which they are so frequently exposed.
The brief goes on to mention our work and our ways of engaging youth.
Global Kids, a youth development organization, takes a preventive approach, using new media to engage urban youth and inspire them to become global citizens, community leaders, and successful citizens. To do this, the Global Kids Online Leadership Program, www.globalkids.org, infiltrates online youth spaces with substantive, issue-oriented experiences, from online dialogues about current events, to a game about poverty and education in rural Haiti, to supporting virtual-world-based training to promote youth social entrepreneurial activity around such issues as preventing bullying and raising self-esteem.
Download the full policy brief here.
