Rites of Passage February 2015 Newlsetter

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RITES OF PASSAGE Feb/Mar 2015

Youth are the Drivers for Change

Camping in Everglades National Park provided by Sierra Club Inspiring Connections Outdoors !1

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Hip Hop Dance Instruction by Team Ohh!

Leadership: Peer Health Educator Training

Visual Art Storytelling via Film

Facilitated by UM’s

facilitated by Institute of Contemporary Art

Promote 2 Protect

Everyone jumps in learning, teaching and sharing some of their hip hop dance moves combined with Ms. Octavia Ohh’s hip hop dance moves from a youth development lens.

There were lots of laughs and sweating through good times.

Participants undergo peer health educator train the trainer training by University of Miami’s Promote 2 Protect to promote HIV awareness with their youth led short film “Two Similar Strangers.”

Participants working as teams to develop narratives for short video production.

Visual art narrative styles are presented by ICA.

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Environmental Appreciation: Camping with Sierra Club Inner City Outings

Camping in the Everglades National Park

College Preparation: College Tour at Florida International University coordinated by Young Lawyer’s Association: Horizons Committee

Putting up a tent 101 instruction

Participants working as a team

Cooking outdoors & building a tent

Ten participants are a step ahead of their future by learning about college preparation with a college tour of FIU in addition to a guided tour of their Frost Art Museum.

Keisha Francois and Kendra Walton considers “FIU a definite option for me.” Another participant adds, “the tour was extremely informative.”

Selfie: Michaella and Rosebaby Montina

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Career Development: Employability skills training

February: Teen Dating Violence Awareness month

Teen Dating Scenarios: Peer Health Educators at Miami Dade Public Schools Mini Conference

Blame and Shame Game: Pointing guilt and fault

Mock Interviews Peer led interviews from interviewee and employer perspective preparation

Jealousy is not cute: Intentionally trying to make your partner jealous is petty Song preparation with Lela Lombardo

Throwin’ shade: Taking power by humiliating others

Dance rehearsal with Kamaria Dailey, choreographed by Debbie Allen !4

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Dear Blue Rain, I can’t stop checking my ex’s social media status and updates. I wished I never sent him any of my selfies.

Sincerely, Heartache Dear Heartache, When you stop obsessing over your ex’s social media, you know you’re over them. As far as selfies go, check your camera phone settings to make sure you’re location is off and in your apps connected like Instagram. Instagram added photo maps to their app, which means every photo taken adds a geo tag location to precisely where you are when taking the photo when connected to Wi-Fi or 3/4G. The photo map feature is optional and can be turned off in the app settings. Geo tagging allows cyber stalkers to find you like int the hit television sitcom “Eye Candy.”

Stalking is a crime of power and control that includes: • Monitor phone calls, text messages, social media • Research your public records including address • Follow you and show up at your home, school and where ever you are • Follow geo-tagged photos • 1 in 4 victims report being stalked through social media.

• 3 in 4 stalking victims are stalked by someone they know

#SELFIE

Remove your ex from your social media feed, unfriend and block them from all your accounts. Just as you’re following your ex’s social media, someone may be following/ stalking you.

Sincerely, Blue Rain

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