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SFGate.com Captive audience Tutoring program helps educate juvenile orrenders in lockup - By Christoper Heredia
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“Next
Stages” By Alison Luterman –
San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 2005 “
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Justice
System Yields Playwrights” by John
Angell Grant, San Mateo Daily News, posted
with the permission of the publisher:
The program's goals are to empower disaffected youth
and to build self-esteem through developing the
belief that whet they have to say is important.
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"Teens
reaching teens" by Stacy Trevenon-Half
Moon Bay Review
An Each One Reach One program was getting under
way at Pilarcitos High School, which Bodkin and
Lopez attend. The two were interested but could
not think of a topic for a play. Instead, they suggested
doing a video documentary on drug use.
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YCT Receives Silver
Reel Award for Radio Broadcast
The Youth Communications Team of Pacific News Service
http://news.pacificnews.org/news/ received the
2004 National Federation of Community Broadcasters
Silver Reel award for the report "Wisdom vs.
Test," about playwriting in juvenile hall.
The award was for arts features and reporting and
is one of the most prestigious awards in national
radio broadcasting. The story about a play written
by a San Francisco Youth Guidance Center detainee
was originally featured last July on UpFront Radio
http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_custom.html?custom_page_id=14
(NCM's weekly news program on California's ethnic
media and communities), on KALW, 91.7FM. Young detainees
at YGC each wrote a one-act play during a two-week
playwriting program led by Each One Reach One http://www.each1reach1.org,
through the Civic Arts Partnership, and culminated
in a staged reading at the Hall of the young writers'
plays.
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“Just
Reach One” by Melody Ermachild Chavis,
with her permission; to be published:
"My play
is about two bears," Andre explains to me.
"It's about revenge— about deciding
not to try to get revenge." When I ask how
he chose his topic, Andre pauses, and then says,
"Somebody in my family was killed, and now
we have to stick really close together and take
care of each other."
- “Professional
Actors Perform Probationer’s Plays”
by Sue Markham, On Probation, posted with
the permission of the San Mateo County Probation
Department:
The group had ended their work and
was packing up when a 17-year-old "tough gang
kid” from East Palo Alto stopped them and said,
“Even though we are behind these locked walls,
when I am in this program and writing, I feel free.
I think I am pretty good at this. I want to be an
actor. Do they have this in college?”…
- “Reach
Out” by Stacy Trevenon, Half Moon
Bay Review, 2000:
”They’re the artists today”,
said Eloise Chilton, a San Francisco professional
actress who had been a coach in this session. ”This
program is about listening to what teens want to
say.…”
- “The
Words Help Troubled Youth Avoid Sentence”
by Paul Kilduff, San Francisco Chronicle, 07/30/99;
archived at sfgate.com:
Thomas, 17, had never written a
play. The Daly City youth didn’t think he could
write “that kind of stuff”….
- “Acting
Out” by Elaine Larsen, San Francisco
Examiner, 07/16/99; archived at sfgate.com:
These candid dramas, with titles
such as “What You See is What You Get,”
“Love Hurts” and “Such-a-Pimp,”
contain metaphors that often mirror the teens’
own harsh life experiences…
- “Inspired
to Reach One through One Inmate” by
Elaine Larsen, San Francisco Examiner, 07/16/99;
archived at sfgate.com:
[Robin’s] first contact was
with an inmate named Mario Rocha, a 17-year-old
first offender, arrested in 1996 in connection with
the shooting death of another teen…
[Robin Sohnen is Each One Reach One’s
founder.]
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