Join us for evidence-based trainings providing research, skills and interventions:

• Media and bullying, aggressive behavior, violence, desensitization to violence, substance use and abuse, obesity, weight issues, eating disorders, body image, self-concept, at risk sexual behaviors, personal safety, and consumerism
• Agencies that serve youth and families, schools and after school programs providing health focused media literacy skills and media production
• Positive and pro-social use of new and emerging media
• Youth creation of media to encourage healthy, safe choices
• Parent and family education in healthy, safe use of media

The following are some of the trainings we provide:

Media and Big Alcohol: Reframing "Their Story" with 21st Century Media Education

Review facts on current alcohol marketing and its influence on underage drinking, understand media literacy education as part of a comprehensive underage alcohol prevention plan, learn evidence-based media education programs that encourage youth to be safe and smart media consumers and creators, and brainstorm regional opportunities for building strong home-school-community prevention programs.

Merging Emerging Media into Prevention Programs

Learn how emerging media can promote healthy messages involving youth, participate in web-based exploration of emerging media, and create plans to integrate emerging media/technology into prevention program and campaigns.

Community Prevention Coalition(CPC) Trainings

Media Power Youth provides trainings to the membership of the ten New Hampshire Community Prevention Coalitions (CPC's) designated to prevent underage alcohol abuse by the Bureau of Drug and Alcohol services, New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services. Coalitions can choose from the topics above or work with us to create unique programs.

Media Power Youth: Elementary and Middle School Curricula Training

Participate in fun, engaging media-rich training on media's influence on violence, aggression, and bullying, tobacco and alcohol use, and nutrition. Receive lesson plans and all the tools needed to make your students critical thinkers about media and responsible media producers.

Media Smart Right from the Start: Early Education

Increase success of young children's behavioral and learning development through media literacy education. Trainings include staff and parent education, focusing on the reduction of media use with negative influence, and the promotion of positive use of media. Media literacy skills for parents include understanding media influence: understanding story telling quality of media, reality vs. media stories: setting rules and boundaries for media use for themselves and children.

Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL)

Media Power Youth programs and curricula highlight media’s influence on childhood obesity and non-nutritional eating.  Health-focused media literacy is an integral part of the statewide Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Action Plan, promoting healthy living. The plan states that schools should encourage integration of media literacy across curricula to “teach children how media markets to them and competes for their time, how consumption of media replaces other activities, how to think critically about media and how to produce media". Contact us for school or out of school programs that contribute to healthy eating active living goals.

Media, Power and YOU

Engage youth in a highly interactive workshop where they explore techniques used by media makers and marketers to sell powerful messages. Students learn how media tells stories and how to decode the sub-text of mass media. The workshop also demonstrates how media can be a positive force in young people's choices, lives and communities.

Media, Power and YOU in Action

Expanding upon the Media, Power and YOU workshop, students join together in the full production of their own positive media message. From activities in story boarding to digital editing, directing, acting and producing, students become the media makers, producing PSA’s (public service announcements) and commercials to be marketed to their peers and communities through the internet, community television, their school communities and other media.

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