Education

Teaching and providing presentations of all types are a major part of what One Voice Youth to Youth does and how it conveys its message to the public.  Our students speak to groups, classrooms, workshops, and major assemblies in schools and at training conferences throughout New Hampshire and across the country. 

All of our presentations are youth-taught.  To accomplish this, we have developed a very effective method for cultivating and developing youth presenters, and, in fact, one of our presentations involves youth teaching other youth "Presentation Skills".

We have 2 basic types of audiences that we do presentations for:  General Audiences and Youth Advocates.

General Audience Presentations

Presentations to general audiences might occur in a classroom, for an assembly of an entire grade, or for 20 adults at a rotary meeting.  An example of a popular general audience presentation is: Eight Things: The Truth About Alcohol, which emphasizes the 8 consequences of alcohol use that the alcohol industry doesn't tell you about in its advertising (such as the risk of date rape).

Typically a middle or high school will have us come in to present this or other topics to a grade or several grades in an assembly format.  However, we have also presented at regional health and wellness events. 

Youth Advocacy Presentations

Other presentations we do are geared toward audiences of students who are (or aspire to be) youth advocates.  These presentations include our Road Show, which is designed to show other students a wide variety of activities and projects that they can replicate to prevent substance abuse.  Still other presentations are intended to build advocacy skills.  An example of this presentation would be our popular workshop How to Create Your Own Radio Ads. 

We regularly provide this training to our own youth advocates, and we are also often asked to provide this training at workshops and as an opening presentation at state, regional and national prevention conferences.  We have also received requests to design training conferences for a youth empowerment program run by another state or local entity. We can come in and do the entire training for a day or a weekend.