Set-up began early – at 7:30 a.m., with student volunteers folding t-shirts, organizing registration sign-in sheets and setting up signs that would soon direct the Youth Media Forum for Social Change audience members to the registration area. At 9 a.m. youth and adults made their way through the KCRA Channel 3 doors, just beyond the glass protected visitors’ desk, and down a hallway to the sign directing youth and adults to Studio B. Once past the dark, heavy curtains, youth and adults were welcomed with music played by DJ Mark West. Cameras positioned throughout the studio were set to capture even the slightly movement or sound, and from above the gleam of lights reflected on the faces

 In an Access Sacramento office full of high-tech video equipment, timelines circulated Friday morning among representatives of local community organizations working toward Sacramento's first Youth Media Forum For Social Change. The project is aimed at showcasing and supporting the use of digital tools for advocacy and social change as well as establishing a regional network of youth and adults to share and create them. The upcoming forum is supported by The Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions initiative, a partnership between the University of California at Davis Center for Regional Change, Sierra Health Foundation and The California Endowment. Research obtained through the initiative will dic