Monday, March 15, 2010

A Dynamic Partnership: Lifting Voices and New Community make a Great Team

New Community for Children and Lifting Voices have been teaming up for over year and wow, has it been a success! Here's how it works: Lifting Voices brings their writing workshops to youth in the ABLE program and helps foster a love for the written word. As you will see in the video below, these workshops have worked. Not only are the youth at ABLE writing powerful pieces that mean something to them but they are also enjoying themselves. So without further ado, watch this video and hear about two very different views of fatherhood as lived by the kids themselves and witness their enthusiasm for the written word: