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Family & Children’s Service - A Rainbow After the Storm
“A Rainbow After the Storm has impact in the lives of many: the youth participants learn new skills and gain inspiration for future activism, volunteer coaches and guest speakers benefit during the training from the chance to pass along their knowledge and share their talents with the upcoming generation, and the entire community or school population benefits when the youth-led organizing projects produce positive change” – Molly Greenman
PFund awarded $5,000 to Twin Cities-based Family & Children’s Service’s A Rainbow After the Storm project. The project provides leadership development and civic engagement training for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and allied (GLBTQA) youth of color (ages 14-19). In 2008, A Rainbow After the Storm will recruit and train 24 GLBTQA youth of color. Each emerging leader will in turn engage at least 10 more youth in advocacy and civic participation, for a total involvement of 240 youth.
“In this training, each youth creates an action plan for an issue that he or she wants to address,” Family & Children’s Service President Molly Greenman says. “While each youth’s project will be unique, reflecting his or her strengths and interests, each campaign will raise awareness of the need for change and will identify change strategies that can be implemented in the youth leader’s school or community.
“By engaging others in their youth-led projects and in advocacy activities, the youth leaders are catalysts for increased visibility, power, and collective action among GLBTQA youth of color. The youth will create impacts both within local communities and on larger systems, resulting in positive changes that benefit GLBTQ youth and youth of color.”
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