During May and June, a group of young people from different areas of the county participated in a documentary photo project that asked them to consider two things: what is wonderful, and what is discouraging, about their environment. See what they came up with.

Dari Joy Guy, a local subversive

Called ‘PhotoVoice,’ this technique of gathering information and expressing opinion has been used all over the world, and by many different groups, usually as a way of raising community awareness and promoting positive change. The findings of the local project will inform our community partners’ projects, and help adults throughout the county see their towns through teenagers’ eyes.

Participants in the Windham Youth PhotoVoice project (including adult sponsors and youth photographers) were: West River Valley: Lori Greenberg from Leyland and Gray Union High School and Cooper Feiner-Homer; Brattleboro: Ricky Davidson from the Boys and Girls Club of Brattleboro and Autumn Kendell, Zach Gilbeau, and Ann-Marie Bliss; Bellows Falls: Ellenka Wasung-Lottfrom the Boys and Girls Club and Danielle Southwell from Youth Services Inc., and Crystal Thomson, Jacqueline Cantor and Abi Baker; and Wilmington: Shelly Park, Sarah Dumaine, Michael Squiers, and Tony Roy.

See the Windham PhotoVoice Project here.

This spring 213 teens and young adults answered questions about their attitude toward life in Windham County – what’s good, what’s bad, what they really really can’t stand, and what they want to improve. Check it out here, and let us hear your comments.

‘LOTS MORE POSITIVE ATTITUDE’

If you’re between 12 and 25 and have any interest in spirituality (or even if you don’t, but like knowing what’s going on in the world), we’d like you to take this survey. It can be done totally online, and takes about 20 minutes. It’s been created by the Search Institute in Minneapolis, and is going to young people in about a dozen countries across the world. The idea is to see how young people in various cultures think about spirituality vs. religion.

Survey

Want to contact us to know what the heck this is about? Go to nenetwork.org to learn more about the project, and who NEN is. (We’re doing work in your county right now, which is kind of what this blog is about.)

This is blog is for youth, by youth, about Windham County. (Some adults may throw themselves into the mix occasionally.) Want to comment on something going on in the county? In your school? With your friends? About something that bugs you … or something you like? One thing: keep it constructive. After that, anything goes.