The Black Swan Academy

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Our youth went street teaming! Street Teams is an opportunity for youth to organize in their communities. Youth handed out one pagers on safe s*x and spoke with community members. This effort was in alignment with our 2023-2024 Black Youth Agenda campaign to bring more health resources to communities. We're so proud of our youth and their organizing! ✊👏💕

Greetings! Today we have a community partner spotlight: Makia Green! Makia is the co founder and former Executive director of Harriet Wildest Dreams. She lead political strategy and membership. Scroll through to read Makia's words. 🙌👏✊

We need your help! Calling all teachers, parents, and more to help us in the process to create our Black Youth Agenda Report. We need community input on the issues of our 2023-2024 Black Youth Agenda. We talked to our youth to craft demands and we want to hear from you on ways these issues impact the larger community. Join us on Dec 16th from 12-2pm. The location is 1800, Marion Barry Ave SE Washington, DC 20020. Register at buff.ly/3uyI4V4. 🙏💓🎈

Our November theme is Youth on Mental Health and Healthcare. Last week, we carried out a service project in alignment with our Black Youth Agenda campaign called, “Hear Us, Heal Us.“ We packaged up 150 hygiene and 150 safe s*x toolkits to pass out. The hygiene toolkits contained deodorant wipes, soap, toothpaste/brush, and wipes. The safe s*x toolkits contained hygiene items plus dental dams, condoms, l**e and a paper on how to properly put on a condom. Youth helped through packing materials, made a brochure on consent and a resource list that they distributed to their peers with mental and s*xual health resources. This was a successful mutual aid project and taught our youth the importance of health and wellness for all! This project also reflected youth’s Black Youth Agenda demands for better, closer and more affordable healthcare as well as improving DC's comprehensive s*x education curriculum. Youth did that! ✊💪👏

Join us for our Organizing to Lead workshop on Dec 6th from 6-7:15pm. Organizing to Lead is an interactive workshop to share Black Swan Academy's advocacy and organizing frameworks. This session is specifically for adults. Register via Zoom tinyurl.com/BSAOrgtoLead126 ✊🙌❤️

Howard University students invited Black Swan Academy Youth Members to The Cathy Hughes School of Communications to learn about the different ways that comms majors aspire to support their communities by staying civically engaged in addition to excelling in their field. Thank you so much, Mackenzie and Howard’s communication students, for having us! We had a great time! ❤️🙌✊

Do you want to get involved in Black Youth led community organizing in DC? Would you like to know what being a Black Swan Academy member looks like? Join us for our next Orientation session. We will go over the onboarding process and upcoming events you can join! Join us Dec 8th, 6:30pm -7:30pm. This will be virtually via Zoom. Register @ buff.ly/3MLSqqR. 🙌😊🤘

Organizing to Lead is an interactive workshop to share our advocacy and organizing frameworks. This session is specifically for adults who want to organize the youth in their lives. Join us for our virtual Organizing to Lead workshop on Dec 6th, from 6-7:15pm. Register via Zoom, buff.ly/3uq057T. ✊🤘🙏

Meet us at these locations at 4:30 this week! We are spreading awareness on hygiene, s*xual education and mental health in Washington DC, for our service project. These initiatives that we have taken, aim to provide information and resources to empower individuals with knowledge about s*xual health and mental well-being. 😍🙏✊

Street Teams is an opportunity for youth, community members, and BSA supporters to get experience directly organizing in their community. In alignment with youth’s 2023 Black Youth Agenda campaign: "Hear us, Heal us", we will share flyers and one-pagers about safe s*x. Instead of waiting for DC to improve the comprehensive s*x information curriculum, we’re taking matters into our own hands! Meet us in front of NoMa Station at 5pm on November 28th, Tuesday to support youth in flyering around their campaign. Register at tinyurl.com/bsaservice. 🙏👏🌍

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Meet us at these locations at 4:30 next week! We are spreading awareness on hygiene, s*xual education and mental health in Washington DC, for our service project. These initiatives that we have taken, aim to provide information and resources to empower individuals with knowledge about s*xual health and mental well-being. 💓🙏🌍

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In alignment with our hear us heal us mental health and health care black youth agenda campaign, Black Swan Academy’s youth is taking to the streets to distribute hygiene and safe s*x toolkits to youth in the SE DC area. Instead of waiting for DC to improve DC’s comprehensive s*x information curriculum we’re taking matters into our own hands! We need youth and adult volunteers. Join us on Monday Nov 20 and Tuesday Nov 21st from 4:30pm-7:00pm to distribute toolkits. Register at tinyurl.com/bsaservice. We would love to have your help! 🌍🙏👏

Calling all youth and adults! We need your help to distribute wellness kits to youth in the SE DC area. We want to distribute 150 hygiene kits to middle schoolers and 150 safe s*x toolkits to high schoolers. Join us on Monday Nov 20th and Tuesday Nov 21st from 4:30-7pm (when supplies last). Register at tinyurl.com/bsaservice We would love to have you join us 🌍👏🙏

Calling all! We need youth and adult volunteers to help us with our service project distributing hygiene and safe s*x toolkits to youth in the SE DC area. We are taking matters into our own hands! Join us on Monday Nov 20th and Tuesday Nov 21st from 4:30-7:00pm (while supplies last) to distribute these wellness kits. Register at tinyurl.com/bsaservice
We look forward to you joining us! 🙏👏🌍

Look at our youth! Advocacy is such a huge part of the work they do. They advocated at the SBOE budget hearing for more mental health professionals in schools, clean schools, and OST programming. We're proud of them for using their voices for what they believe in! 🙌🗣️✊

Calling all! Come help us in the process to create our Black Youth Agenda Report. We need your input on the issues in our 23-24 Black Youth Agenda. We've talked to BSA youth to craft demands and we want to hear from you!! Join us Saturday Nov 4th from 12pm - 2pm at 1630 7th St NW. Register at https://bit.ly/3trM60t 😊💪✊

Our BSA members participate in activities about having pride in our Blackness. Fostering pride in ourselves as Black people is essential to our liberation and wellbeing. We encourage these values in our youth who are developing their own ideas about their Blackness. 💪☺️✊

Calling all! Come help us in the process of creating our Black Youth Agenda Report. We want to get community input into the issues in our report. We've talked to our youth and now we want to hear from you other ways these issues impact our communities. Join us Nov 1st from 5-7pm✊🙏💪 Join us at bit.ly/3trM6Ot

We work with schools to support our young Black Scholars. Oftentimes our youth are facing challenges at home and at school. Through our advocacy and empowerment work of young Black students, we build them up to be as fearless and self determined as possible in the face of any obstacles they may face. We are so proud of our Black youth!! 💪✊👏

Calling all! Come help us in the process of creating our Black Youth Agenda Report. We want to get community input into the issues in our report. We've talked to our youth and now we want to hear from you other ways these issues impact our communities. ✊🙏💪 Join us at bit.ly/3trM6Ot

From losing close friends to family members, DC youth are impacted by gun violence. This is a pivotal article in which youth discuss the impact they feel from gun violence.

Crime in DC: Our Children Speak WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Every day across the country, people are dying from gun violence. That includes here in the DMV. So far this year, there have been 219 homicides in D.C. Fifteen juv…

We're so proud of our youth organizers. Learning how to impact their communities and take on leadership from a young age is super important to their empowerment. We want to commend our youth leaders for all their contributions 💪✊👏

Hey all! Come help us in the process of creating our Black Youth Agenda report. We want to get your community input on the 23-24 Black Youth Agenda! We've had such a success holding these focus groups before and can't wait to get your input again. Join us Nov 1st from 5pm- 7pm and Nov 4th from 12pm -2pm. Register at https://bit.ly/3trM6Ot. 💪😊🙏

Are you ready to get involved with Black youth organizing? Are you curious about what becoming a Black Swan member looks like? Join us for our next Orientation session where we will go over onboarding and membership expectations. Sign up at tinyurl.com/bsaori1026

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This Street Teams: Base building 101 is on 10/20, Friday at 5pm, at 1200 U St. NW in the Lankford Auditorium. This will be an informative base building session where we go over the importance of base-building to movements, various outreach techniques and how to best apply them. There will be transportation, snacks and stipends provided for all youth attending. 🌍🤘🤩

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Just a middle of the week pick me up! You know everytime we put our heads together, we're coming up with something good. Part of the organizing process is mapping out ideas. We love to see our youth in the process of organizing and ideating 💪👍🤘

Are you ready to get involved in Black youth led community organizing. Are you curious about what becoming a Black Swan Academy member looks like whether you're a youth or adult? Join us for our next Orientation session where we will go over the onboarding process, membership expectations, and upcoming events. We would love to have you there!☺️🤘✊Register at tinyurl.com/bsaori1026

Attention! Do your work with young people OR are you a young person who wants to create change in your community or school? Are you interested in activism and speaking up for yourself and others your age? Join us for our workshop “Organizing to Lead” to gain organizing and advocacy skills, learn more about youth-led solutions to improve D.C and come up with your own plan to address the issues you care about. ✊🌍🎉

Happy Monday! We love to provide opportunities for our youth to exercise creativity and group collaboration. Youth working together to make change uplifts us and unites us🤘🥺👏

Attention! Do you work with young people OR are you a young person who wants to create change in your community or school? Are you interested in activism and speaking up for yourself or others your age? Join us for our workshop, "Organizing to Lead," to gain organizing and advocacy skills, learn more about youth led solutions to improve DC and come up with your own plan to address the issues you care about. Register at tinyurl.com/orgtolead1010 🌍👏🙏

Calling all! Come outTuesday the 19th and help us in the process of creating our Black Youth Agenda. We talked to Black youth and now we want to talk to our community! We need your input. Sign up at https://bit.ly/3Z4vAQw. The location is 1200 u st NW! 👏🎉💪