I bet you were thinking… Why YMG? Well, Krystal Li, a junior at Stanford University and YMG alumna is here to answer your burning question. Krystal participated in three programs at YMG and hopes to turn her interests into action as “a researcher, designer, and storyteller focused on sustainability and social impact.”?She is majoring in Symbolic Systems (Human-Computer Interaction Track), with a minor in Art Practice. Krystal is the recipient of the Winter 2024 Stanford’s Lunsford Award, which recognizes students who deliver presentations that effectively combine research, multimedia elements, and strong oral communication. Krystal is currently a member of Design for America, “a pioneering social impact nonprofit training the next generation of social innovators.” She is passionate about her involvement in the Asian Women’s Alliance, which fosters an inclusive community for Asian and Asian American women at Stanford University. #WhyYMG #youthcastmediagroup
Youthcast Media Group
非营利组织管理
McLean，Virginia 858 位关注者
Teaching teens in under-resourced communities to create multimedia journalism about health, road safety & social issues
关于我们
Youthcast Media Group (formerly Urban Health Media Project) trains high school students from under-resourced communities to report, write, and broadcast stories about health and social issues that affect their neighborhoods and cities. Co-founded by then-USA TODAY health policy reporter Jayne O’Donnell and former DC health commissioner and longtime health care executive Dr. Reed Tuckson, YMG has been a 501(c)3 nonprofit since December 2019. It is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Upswing Fund for Adolescent Mental Health, the Sozosei Foundation and private donors. Students’ work has been published in numerous publications, including USA TODAY, the Indianapolis Star and Washington Blade. Our students learn to harness the power of their voices as journalists to share the rich experiences of their communities in a way that honors, informs and empowers. We understand “healthiness” results from a variety of forces as described by the World Health Organization, including “the mental, physical and spiritual well-being of a person or community.” Not a day goes by without a news report highlighting socioeconomic and racial disparities in health outcomes; the insidious impact of violence; the alarming rise in teen suicide; and the importance of health policy concerns within the American political debate. Our students’ reporting on these and other topics include video, audio, articles, and photography produced under the guidance of a diverse and experienced group of journalists, including reporters and editors who work or have worked at outlets such as USA TODAY, Miami Herald, NBC, (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, Baltimore Sun, PBS, ABC, The Wall St. Journal and The Associated Press. Our goal is to help our students better understand and communicate about health issues and disparities that directly affect them, and to foster a generation of diverse journalists that will enter and enrich news organizations across the country.
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https://youthcastmediagroup.org
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- 非营利组织管理
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- McLean，Virginia
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1350 Beverly Rd
P.O. Box 115-404
US，Virginia，McLean，22101
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Join live this Thursday at 2 pm as founder/CEO Jayne O'Donnell joins the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA)'s virtual event. GHSA and General Motors partnered to provide grants to two State Highway Safety Offices and a nonprofit, (us!) to pilot three different approaches to raise awareness of the dangers of distracted driving. We’re the youth engagement one! Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/eN6SycjK to see work by high school students from Fairfax County Public Schools, Arlington Public Schools, ReadyCT/Weaver High School and our intern Aabri Spear from Morgan State University. You’ll also hear just how engaged these students and others’ are when it comes to safe driving. After all, they’re typically either learning to drive or pretty new behind the wheel.
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Our founder and her journalist/YMG volunteer husband, Richard Willing, covered this event for us but we hope to have students in the New Haven area very soon to train and pay to create multimedia health, road safety and social issue content with us!
Founder, Youthcast Media Group; USA TODAY reporter, 1993-2021, last 8 years covering health policy.
What an exciting day for me/Youthcast Media Group in New Haven Thursday at the unveiling of the new murals created by a group of GateWay Community College studio art instructor Peter Bonadies' students at the bioscience 101 College Street building. In what Peter called amazing "synchonicity," a drug made by rare disease biopharma company & building tenant Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. treats the tumor-causing genetic disease neurofibromatosis, which Peter and Danielle C. Bonadies' son Ethan (shown w/his mom) has. We talked to two of the students - Taina Jackson (far left) and Adrian Farro (in the middle w/gold shirt - about their work on the health science-focused art and what it meant to them. Stay tuned for those videos (and folo us!) https://lnkd.in/eMCib_dq. I grew up just a few miles from this building in Hamden and YMG hopes to expand to students in the area, along with our existing partnerships in Hartford with ReadyCT.
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It was another big week for YMG as student creator/new University of Virginia freshman Natalie Portillo - a ‘24 graduate of Arlington’s Wakefield HS - joined founder Jayne O'Donnell as she presented at and they covered the National Criminal Justice Association ‘s #cjforum in DC. Natalie, who has reported on road safety, criminal justice and mental health, met and heard about the local declines in gun violence and carjackings from Arlington Police Chief Andy Penn and DC Deouty Mayor for Public Safety and Justice Lindsey Appiah. And she talked to NCJA chief Chris Asplen and Cara Cookson (she/her), director of Victim Services for Maine’s Attorney General’s Office, which is nearing the one year anniversary of the tragic Lewiston mass shooting.
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Are you a high school student? Are you interested in news and writing but don't know where to start? WE have a PAID opportunity for YOU!! Youthcast Media Group is offering an introductory-level journalism bootcamp for promising writers without journalism experience this fall. We're looking for 10-12 high school students who are talented writers, are interested in learning more about journalism, and are passionate about their communities. Is this you? Apply today! https://lnkd.in/ewS6Dyj6 #studentjournalism #highschoolstudent #journalism
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APPLICATION ALERT for student journalists! Earn $250! Youthcast Media Group? is hosting a workshop on the impact of gun violence on youth and their communities and what is being done to prevent it– write a story, get published, work with experienced journalists. Interested? Apply now here: https://lnkd.in/dbNVBzfM #workshop #gunviolence #writingworkshop #highschoolstudents #studentjournalism
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We hear kudos were all around for our social media creator/student reporter Daisy Garriga, 18, after her presentation with founder Jayne O'Donnell and NTSB's Bryan Delaney on engaging teens on safe driving at DRIVE SMART Virginia's 11th Annual Distracted Driving Summit! Daisy talked about how the loss of a close classmate on Christmas Day 2022 - along with his mother - in a car crash helps motivate her to make a difference. And she shared details of our Route Fifty article that includes a teen-administered survey of teens on the effectiveness - well, mostly, NOT - of distracted driving messaging.
Founder, Youthcast Media Group; USA TODAY reporter, 1993-2021, last 8 years covering health policy.
It’s a wrap on Drive Smart Virginia's 11th Annual Distracted Driving Summit - and Daisy Garriga (who is 18!) and my/ Youthcast Media Group's first trip to this fact, networking and expert-filled event! It was both great and heartbreaking for us to meet the parents of some of the young victims for the first time, and advocate/survivors Joel Feldman of the Casey Feldman Foundation and Pam O’Donnell in person for the first time. And it took going to Richmond to meet some of the DC area folks from NHTSA and NTSB including our co-presenter Bryan Delaney of NTSB and his boss Nicholas Worrell! Stay tuned for more posts about how Virginia is working to reduce crashes (including police monitoring cell phone use from pickup trucks!), how closely traffic injuries and death track with other public health indicators of poor health and life expectancy and what bad examples of distracted driving so many of us are for our children! Parents and gig workers are the worst, says the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety / Highway Loss Data Institute! Thanks DRIVE SMART Virginia and Kristin Pettway for the invite!
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YMG will be covering Kaiser Permanente’s 2024 Thriving Schools Summit in Washington DC and we can’t wait to check out all the great sessions on school safety, social media and youth, and more. YMG CEO Jayne O'Donnell and incoming co-editors for Annandale High School’s newspaper The A-Blast, Michelle Collins and Zoe Ligairi, will be there in person, and are looking forward to meeting local school officials and KP health experts! YMG mentor-editor Nichole Christian and intern Angely Pe?a-Agramonte will be covering the summit virtually! You can check it out virtually too so stay tuned for our posts! — > For more information and to register gor the summit, go to https://k-p.li/4cWm73x #kaiserpermanente #schools #highschools #youthcastmediagroup #conference #tunein #summit #ThrivingSchoolsSummit2024
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We are proud to announce that we are so transparent that we have earned the Platinum Seal of Transparency with GuideStar and Candid! Get updates on our impact through our #NonprofitProfile https://lnkd.in/eb-8_WRE
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Check out some of our favorite photos from last month’s Student Showcase and fundraiser at The Monocle Restaurant on Capitol Hill. It was great to have our friends from Annandale High School, Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), Responsibility.org, CURA Strategies and more! Thanks to Sreehitha Gandluri and Asha Davis, Office of National Drug Control Policy deputy director Adam Cohen and Rep. John Larson for speaking!
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