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Teen Empowerment's Boston sites are employing youth this summer through the Martin Luther King, Jr. Summer Scholars program, funded by John Hancock Financial and other sponsors. In addition, TE is organizing professional skills development gatherings every Friday for 650 youth from nearly 100 organizations that are participating in this program. See coverage of this program on NECN.

Teen Empowerment is currently seeking resident artists to work with youth at our Massachusetts sites through the Commonwealth Corps program. These are stipended positions. Download information.

TE's Rochester site organized a youth-police symposium, Real Talk, Real Walk, Real Change, held on May 8. Check out TV coverage on YNN, newspaper coverage in the Democrat and Chronicle, and a RocNow guest essay by Sergeant Gary Moxley and TE Rochester director Doug Ackley.

Thanks to the 500 youth and adults who braved a downpour for TE's 18th annual Boston Youth Peace Conference, "Think Outside the Block," on May 8. Download a flier and check back soon for photos.

See some photos from the Somerville Youth Peace Conference on April 10, and read about it here: Hope reigns at peace summit and here: Fourth annual Somerville Youth Peace Conference draws hundreds. More information about Somerville.

Many thanks to all who supported TE's annual Celebration of Hope and Caring on March 4. It was a great evening! Click here to see the short video shown at the Celebration. Read about our inspiring honorees, Sonia Alleyne Matthews and Joseph Jackson. Here's an article about the event in the Somerville News.

There's an excellent article about TE on the Huffington Post!

Download our latest 2-page newsletter, the TE Times, for an update on Teen Empowerment's work in 2009.

Teen Empowerment helped organize a rally for youth jobs at the Massachusetts State House on February 20. Read about it in the Boston Globe.

Many thanks to all who came out to support the Grand Opening of TE first neighborhood-based site in Rochester, NY. Check out video preview of the opening on YNN TV. Here's WHEC's coverage of the opening. Check out some photos of the event from the Democrat & Chronicle.

Teen Empowerment has produced a 25-minute DVD entitled Voices from Behind the Wall, featuring messages to youth from prison inmates in Massachusetts. We now have a curriculum and discussion guide to accompany the DVD. Click here to check out the DVD and the guide on YouTube. Order online. Here's an article about the "Voices" DVD (with video excerpts) from the Boston Globe: Prison counsel.

TE has 10 short videos posted on YouTube that illustrate how we work interactively to engage groups of youth and adults. See exercises in action  from our book, Moving Beyond Icebreakers! Concentric Circles, Make It Up: Paper Chase, Wordstorm, Evaluation, The Human Knot, Name Wave, Warm-up Questions, Bag Toss, Zip Zap Zup with Foot-Stamp, and Wind Blows with Word.

Be a Friend of TE! Thanks to everyone who joined TE staff and youth on July 16 to launch the Friends of Teen Empowerment. To learn more, or to become our friend, contact us. Click here to read about an event earlier this summer where friends of TE came together.

The Boston Globe interviewed TE's executive director, Stanley Pollack, about the impact of proposed state funding cuts on violence prevention efforts: A harsh cut for our youth.

Check out TeenEmpowermentTV on YouTube.

Download TE's publication, Voices of Children Left Behind in Massachusetts Public Schools.