Tuesday, October 22, 2013 Are kids safe behind bars? This fall the Media Awareness Project will work with incarcerated youth at Gardner Betts Juvenile Justice Center to produce an awareness piece on sexual abuse behind bars. During the intensive workshops, youth will produce 2-3 media pieces to raise awareness and educate young people about sexual abuse and prejudice. They will research, script, storyboard, film and edit each piece, working collaboratively as a group. It’s a tough topic, but a really important one to address. Most of these kids, in fact, most MAP kids in general, have struggled. As a society, we need to help them learn/relearn what appropriate boundaries are. Not just how it’s appropriate for them to act, but what’s appropriate for them to experience. “This is an exciting project for MAP and for Gardner Betts,” says Executive Director Jesse Medeiros. “In the past I know that GB kids have worked on film project
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