National Network for Youth

Description: National Network for Youth (NNY) intends to reach disadvantaged youth and social networking sites in three main ways. NNY has developed a partnership with YouthNoise (YN), a social networking site for social good. YN is a nonpartisan internet meeting place that empowers young leaders to connect, inform, and inspire one another to build movements that address the world's most pressing issues and create lasting social change. More than 145,000 registered youth from all fifty states and more than 170 countries make up the global YN community. YN receives over 140,000 visits and 600,000 page views of youth-generated videos, articles, blogs, podcasts, and art each month.

NNY proposes to work with YN to enable youth to share information about healthy living as it is developed through the projects. The health campaign will focus on health issues facing youth and will use social networking applications, widgets, and other web 2.0 technologies to engage youth in creating projects around the health issues they are most passionate about. NNY will also create simple games that will be linked to youth friendly sites. The games will take the content from projects, e.g., exercise strategies and nutrition, and encourage youth to participate in games especially designed to promote service-learning activities to the broader youth community.

NNY realizes that most youth in long-term programs (such as transitional housing, transitional living programs, and some foster care programs) do not possess a computer. Cell phone technology is, however, prevalent among this group. Many use the type of 'buy as you go' cell phones, such as those provided through Virgin Mobile, another partner of NNY's in this Web 2.0 initiative.
http://www.youthnoise.com/
http://www.nn4youth.org
http://youthspace.nn4youth.org

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