‘Growing Up Poor in the Bay Area’ Forum Comes to Silicon Valley

New America Media is partnering once again with the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health to join the latest data on child health with local youth perspectives, in order to tell on-the-ground stories about what it’s like Growing Up Poor in the Bay Area.

This forum, which will be held on Thursday, Nov. 3, from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in San Jose, will feature information about youth poverty from several perspectives:

• A presentation of local poverty data on kidsdata.org;
• Multimedia stories from youth reporters who will translate these data into real lives, describing how they’ve seen poverty affect local youth; and
• Comments/discussion from youth development organizations and others about troubling trends and recommendations for action.

We hope that this forum will help illustrate challenges faced by low income youth and families — and perhaps inspire some media coverage of these issues. Stay tuned to Data Points for a re-cap of this event.

If you’d like to attend Thursday’s event, RSVP to Liz Gonzalez at [email protected] or at (415) 503-4170.

See our Recap and Video from our last New America Media Forum event in San Francisco.