teaching
Youth Program Development
Organization:
YMCA of Greater Boston VISTA Name:
Leena Silverman
Program Start:
1/2007
Project Description:
- Successfully apply for and run the MIT/Astronomy project. Includes outreach, volunteer coordinating, and running the program over the summer.
- Successfully run the Kinetic City program. Including familiarizing herself with the curriculum, choosing participants, building relationships with the participants, teaching the class, and creating a presentation of the end result
- Create a CyberY operations binder.
- Create a digital movie with youth/teens about their life experience
Project Outcome:
VISTA’s major duties included full responsibility of computer lab and resources for the lab.
"Youth Media Block" Program Building and Outreach
Organization:
Media Bridges Cincinnati VISTA Name:
Lauren Bratslavsky
Program Start:
9/2006
Program End:
9/2007
Project Description:
Goal 1: Research pre-existing youth oriented media curriculum, policies and programs
Goal 2: Develop manual with existing resources, create MBYC policies, procedures and journal outreaches for future use.
Goal 3: Grant Writing and research funding options focused at the Media Bridges Youth Channel and Operation Department
Goal 4: Research, design, implement a volunteer managment model to be used withthe MBYC.
Project Outcome:
Lauren has been an integral part of ensuring a year- round, sustainable youth media program. She has been developing policies, researching, compiling content for the Youth Media Block and leading several of the outreaches and youth- media classes. The VISTA has also been vital in assisting the Education Coordinator with her duties such as classes, curriculum development, and community outreach.
Staff Technology Training and CTC Support
Organization:
Homeless Prenatal Program VISTA Name:
Britney Fosbrook
Program Start:
9/2006
Program End:
9/2007
Project Description:
-Teaching weekly Community Health Worker class - including developing original curriculum.
-Staff training - HPP’s staff has a low computer literacy and needs training. Brittney is surveying this need and will advise on the creation of a personalized assessment for staff. Then she will help with the development of the staff training curriculum.
-Working to control technology issues through organization and standardization. Activities include creating computer inventory, set-uping standard desktop configurations, writing policy and working on long-term goals for Technology Center and HPP.
Project Outcome:
Brittney teaches the Community Health Worker (CHW) Class. (The CHWs are paid interns, often former clients, who are usually hired as staff at HPP after they finish their internship.) She has created a dynamic and engaging curriculum for the CHW class.
Brittney also gives private weekly staff tutoring as well as ongoing staff tech support.
During open lab drop-in hours every afternoon, Brittney offers housing and job search support for clients.
Brittney is also in charge of maintaining our websites, and our organization wide forms system. She was put in charge of the phones, created a phone user guide and manages new staff phone needs.
Brittney is active in writing policy and long-term planning, including helping in the hiring process of the new Technology Manger.
Another large project that Brittney has taken on gracefully is overseeing the ailing database, which has not been able to handle our staffs’ needs. She is working as the intermediary between staff, consultants and database programmers and is working to prepare HPP for a new database system.
Impact Quote:
Brittney has been instrumental at every step, on nearly every project. She has been able to assess where her time and talent could be better used during her stay at HPP.
Windows - Mac Translation Guide
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Organization:
Media Bridges Cincinnati These “translation”-guide are designed for Windows users who have to use a Mac.
The first translates standard keyboard combinations for the odd-creature that is the Apple keyboard. This guide was designed by VISTA Stephen Loverme serving at HOME, Inc. in Boston, MA.
The second translates common visual cues from Windows to the Mac. For example, the Windows spinning hourglass is the same as the swirling rainbow on the Mac. This was created by VISTA Lauren Bratslavsky serving at Media Bridges Cincinnati.