Our piece, The Good, the Bad, and the #Best of Isla Vista, was just published in a peer-reviewed youth journal!! In this article, we present our teen leadership group and projects. We describe our "I'm a Student Too!" campaign, and why it is important to raise awareness about Latino/a children and families that live in Isla Vista, California, which has the reputation of being a college town. We outline our group's mandate to create a better, safer, and healthier place where youth and families can grow up. We then describe how we collected data on people's opinions of Isla Vista over the past two years and how we shared this information in town halls, University of California Santa Barbara orientations, and community conferences to make positive changes in our community. Authors reflecting on the writing process and article:
"'I'm a Student Too campaign' is important because it brought awareness to the IV community about safety and drug issues" --Odalis "I mostly helped with the editing. It was a long, lengthy process, but in the end I learned how to improve communication between community groups" --Brise "My piece in the article was about the Sound Project. I wrote this because I was more involved and interested in this part of the project, which drove me to analyze the stats and write this piece" --Victor "I contributed to the paper about what we're going to do next, the plans for the future and also what we could recommend for other leadership students or just leadership in general" --Brandon "Because most of us live and spend most of our time in Isla Vista, we deeply care about what happens here. Now with that said, thank you for giving us this opportunity and we're very excited for you guys to read our article" --Natalia
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Everyone did a great job presenting today! Our data analysis team presented on the sound project and their participation as community scientists, but it's important to recognize this is only one part of the larger "I'm a Student Too" campaign that these youths have been working on for the past two years. The extent of their data collection and analysis is impressive, as is their commitment to making Isla Vista a "better, safer and healthier place where youth and families can grow up." Our data analysis team began by presenting how sound was a big issue in the initial survey, and their response of collecting data on sound levels to answer specific questions seen below. They also presented on the process of data collection and analysis for the sound project that took place over the past few months. Finally, they showed some of their results. See previous blog post for graphs, and check out the map below of representative sounds! Article Title--I'm a Student Too: Isla Vista teens research the landscape
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