Archive - 2012

Date

May 11th

Youth Advocacy Foundation Honors Gregg Croteau and Patricia Puritz

Submitted by Sovanna on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 10:39am

The Youth Advocacy Foundation honored Gregg Croteau, MSW, Executive Director of the United Teen Equality Center, as one of its two distinguished nonprofit leaders this year. Gregg was recognized at the Youth Advocacy Foundation’s spring event on May 3, 2012, along with Patricia Puritz, Executive Director of the National Juvenile Defender Center in Washington, DC.

Nominated by their peers, Gregg and Patricia have both been leaders in advocating for new ways of improving public safety by providing court-involved youth people with skilled advocates and evidence-based programs.

May 8th

UTEC & AmeriCorps Visits Fenway!

Submitted by Sovanna on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 11:27am

The Massachusetts Service Alliance donated a bundle of tickets to the Red Sox game against the Oakland A's to the UTEC AmeriCorps crew. The crew was able to bring a group of young people with them to the game which to some of them was their first Red Sox game ever! It was a great time and we all hope to be able to go back sometime soon!

Check out the photos from the game - Gallery

May 1st

Change of Gears - A 12,000 Mile Bike Trip to Fight Depression

Submitted by Sovanna on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 11:20am

Dan O' Neill of Change of Gears stopped by UTEC in the middle of his 12,000 mile bike ride around the country to share his story of his fight with depression with us. It was a very inspirational talk and we were very please to have him stop by!

Check out photos from the meetup - Gallery

Learn more - www.changeofgears.com

April 27th

Writer's BLOC & Poetry Slam - Persona Boutique

Submitted by Sovanna on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 11:03am

UTEC's poetry program Writer's Bloc held an open mic and poetry slam to help promote the new program and showcase some of our very talented young people. The open mic and slam were open to youth ages 15 - 23 and turned out to be a great time! We had a great turnout of poets, rappers, vocalists and musicians and gave some awesome prizes away throughout the night!
Special big thanks to Persona Boutique for letting us use their space for the event!

Check out the pictures from the event - Gallery

April 23rd

Comcast Cares Day '12

Submitted by Sovanna on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 12:04pm

On Saturday, April 21 over 50 Comcast employees and their families rolled up their sleeves and worked hard on behalf of UTEC. Here is an inventory of what they accomplished in a single day:

April 19th

ABC News Highlights Vote 17 Teens’ Campaign Progress

Submitted by Sovanna on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 10:55am

Vote 17 campaign organizers are in New York City today, sharing their progress and their hopes in the Vote 17 campaign to lower the voting age in Lowell’s municipal elections. ABC News features Vote 17 in today’s articles, with comments from UTEC teen Carline Kirksey, UTEC Organizing Coordinator Geoff Foster, and Lowell Mayor Patrick Murphy.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mass-teens-inch-closer-lowering-voting-age/story?id=16166922

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April 13th

TLTW in "No Citizens Left Behind"

Submitted by Sovanna on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 5:26pm

TLTW’s amazing efforts have landed a shout out to UTEC in Meira Levinson’s new book No Citizen Left Behind. It’s a great summary of our efforts to get Civics back into MA high schools while effectively summarizing UTEC’s mission of going “From the Streets to the Statehouse”

Learn more about Teens Leading The Way !

March 26th

On Friday morning, Carline reached a new height in her young career as a youth organizer!

Submitted by Sovanna on Mon, 03/26/2012 - 2:03pm

Carline was selected to speak at the 2012 National Youth Organizing and Education Reform Conference at Harvard University. She spoke on a panel about her life experiences at UTEC and how Youth Organizing doesn’t just allow her to change her world, but it also allows her to transform herself. We have footage of her presentation to around 100 people that I’ll be happy to share later, but if you see her please give her a pat on the back. She represented UTEC wonderfully and she is, as we are, very proud of the transformation she has made over the past three years.

Mad Love, Carline!