HomeMy WebLinkAbout7.4 Prioritizing Teen Programs & Activities Addressing Teen Issues CITY OF DUBLIN
YOUTH ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AGENDA STATEMENT
F. MEETING DATE: February 10, 1998
SUBJECT: Prioritizing Teen Programs and Activities for 1998/99
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` EXHIBITS ATTACHED: Brainstorm Results for Programs and Activities Addressing Teen
Issues
RECOMMENDATION: Receive Report and Provide Input
FINANCIAL STATEMENT: None
DESCRIPTION: At the January 13, 1998 meeting of the Youth Advisory Committee,
the Committee was asked to look over the top ten teen issues from the 1995 Teen Forum and choose the
top three that they thought were still an issue today.
At the January 17, 1998 Youth Advisory Committee training, Staff asked the Committee to brainstorm
.ways to address the top three teen issues. Staff has compiled the results of the Youth Advisory
Committee's brainstorming session on the top three teen issues: Boredom, Costs of Things, Drugs and
Finding Alternatives for further review and consideration.
Recommendation
Staff recommends that the Committee review and discuss the list of programming ideas, combine and
choose programs and activities to be implemented for the next fiscal year.
COPIES TO:
ITEM NO. 7.4
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DUBLIN PARKS AND COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT
t. YOUTH ADVISORY COMMITTEE
At the January 17th orientation of the Youth Advisory Committee. Members rated the
top three teen issues from a listed generated by youth in 1995. The committee was
divided into 3 groups and given an issue to brainstorm on ways to address the issue. The
following is the complied ideas addressing the top three issues that concern teens in
g.;
Dublin.
Brainstorm Results for Programs and Activities Addressing Teen Issues
Issue#1:Boredom and Nowhere to Hang Out
Goal: To find alternatives to teen boredom.
= Recommendations:
1)Design a Teen Club for Teens to hang out at. Using a store front or existing building.
2) Offer a dance club at the Shannon Center.
3) Concerts in the Park during the summer.
4) Offer Camping trips or trips to amusement parks outside the Bay Area.
5)Have teen events that run after hours. (Midnight Basketball,Broom Hockey, Billiards
Bash, Battle of the Bands,Drop in Art Studio, Lock-In).
6)Allow the Teens to create and operate a Haunted House in a public facility for youth.
7) Conduct a Multi-Cultural Event put on by teens for teens. "Festival of Unity"
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8) Offer classes to teens on things they would not learn in school. (Photography, Hip-Hop
Dancing,Line Dancing,Fishing,Hiking,Mountain Biking) on campus afterschool.
9)Work on bringing in a temporary skate park until the new one in the is built.
10) Community Service Program, Creek clean-ups and other service projects
11)Youth Friendly Award-Have Teens create an award that will be presented to local
businesses and community members who support teen activities and have youth friendly
policies.
Issue#2: Costs of Everything/Discounts
Goal: 1) To find ways to lower costs or receive discounts for students on food and
merchandise.
2)Raise teen awareness about Business Community issues to improve teen and
Business Community relationship.
Recommendations:
1) "I am free for the Weekend"--One weekend out of the month local businesses will
give free food or merchandise to teens who show up with an I.D. card. The I.D. card
signifies that they agree to be drug and alcohol free for the weekend.
2) Seek out local businesses who would be willing to give discounts to students and
create a student discount card sponsored by YAC.
3) Work with the Dublin movie theaters to lower prices to students who have their I.D.
card. (Have tickets be five dollars to any teens that shows up with their I.D. card)
4) "Dinner Out Program"have discounts at local restaurants for teens who come in to eat
after 8:00 p.m.
5)Find a local restaurant who is willing to have teens hang out at their business. This
could eventually become"the teen diner" a place for teens to go where they knew for sure
something would be going on and a place where they are accepted.
6) Teenage Undercover or Shop Lift Diversion Project in local businesses. Teens will
work with businesses to cut down on crime.
7) Work with Q-Zar and Iceland to have discounts for middle school students.
8) Work with the Bart System to come up with a Teen Discount Card.
9) Offer events where the teens can hold an event that will subsidize or pay for another
event. (Fundraising to offset the cost of activity)
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Issue #3:Drugs/Find Alternatives
Goal: 1) To find alternatives to drugs by offering clean and sober events.
2) Learn to understand that drug and drug free are separate issues and how to
approach and combine the two worlds.
Recommendations:
1)Have high school students do motivational and say no to drug campaigns at the middle
schools in Dublin.
2) Teen to Teen or Young Adult to Teen informational or motivational talks [Testimony]
(at an assembly or in classroom).
3)Have events at Coffee Houses. This is a good environment for group mixings that
involve teens that are in or out of the drug world. (Combined events are not comfortable
for teens that are in and out of drugs, a coffee house is a place where both would feel
comfortable attending)
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