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Friday, February 10, 2012
City of Sacramento recognizes outstanding local youth
by Casey Kirk, published on May 7, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Storyline: Sacramento Events
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In an effort to shed light on the often-unnoticed positive efforts of Sacramento's youth, the City of Sacramento and Fox 40 News have created a "Youth of the Month" program and will announce their first award early next week.
"Basically, it was seen that there’s always news value with youth and in the mainstream sometimes it's not always of positive images,” said Hindolo Brima, Public Information Officer for Sacramento Parks and Recreation and the Office of Youth Development, “But we all know there’s a lot of youth helping to make the city a better place and need to remind people that youth are contributing to the city."
The collaboration is a part of the Sacramento Office of Youth Development's overall goal to make Sacramento a more youth-friendly city. Anyone who believes a youth, who must be a resident of Sacramento and from 12 to 18 years old, should be recognized for their good deeds is encouraged to fill out an application at the office's website.
There are no limits to the good deeds that can be recognized, and youth can be nominated for academic achievements, reaching a milestone, volunteering, or any other contribution made to his or her community.
"This is really a chance to see how many wonderful things that our youth are doing for our city," said Brima.
Brima explained that the application process was designed to be simple. After being submitted online or through the mail, the applications are then given to a group of staff from the Office of Youth Development. From there, the nominations are passed on to the Youth Commission and are reviewed before being narrowed down to one.
The chosen nominee from each month will receive a plaque and $200 in addition to being featured on Fox 40 News. At the end of the year, all of the awarded nominees will be invited to a reception.
Currently in its first month, the program has already received numerous applications, and Brima said they are expecting to receive hundreds more next month as the program gains more recognition.
The chosen nominee will be announced at the next Sacramento City Council meeting, which will be held at 6 p.m.on Tuesday, May 12. Nominations are currently being accepted for June at www.cityofsacramento.org/youth-development/YouthoftheMonth.html.
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As a law and order type of conservative who is educated and worked in law enforcement, It is my practical experience that we must do a better job engaging our youth with jobs and education (both vocational & traditional) while simultaneously breaking down their angry separatist subcultures; we need to educate them on what the benefits are of being productive members of American mainstream society.
The engagement of our youth must focus on dismantling the hip-hop-gang subcultures. The Leftist media machine has indoctrinated and rationalized youth of color separating themselves into subcultures, while they promote feelings of isolation; this has created much of their anger against "the man". They use this anger to rationalize crime and violence.
Multiculturalism is the problem, Leftists in our education system have pimped angry separatist cultures based on ethnicity. The multibillion-dollar-multicultural-welfare-education-industry has done more to promote & expand our violent separatists gang culture than any other socioeconomic phenomenon.