April 2022

Summer Academy is a program to support and develop youth (14-24) into transformational leaders in their schools, communities, and beyond. It starts Monday, June 13th, and ends on July 22nd. This is a paid participation opportunity for Denver youth to be engaged in their own leadership development. PV incorporates healing-centered and community-based self-discovery, guidance, and skill development methods.

Learn more by visiting https://www.projectvoyce.org/summerafterschool or have youth fill out the2022 Summer Academy interest form at http://www.bit.ly/pvsummer2022.

There are limited spaces available. If you have any questions, please contact our Program Manager, Tiya Trent, at tiya@projectvoyce.org.

Youth Organizing and YPAR

After months of prep and planning, the young leaders at Project VOYCE are SO EXCITED to share their Student Stress in DPS Survey with the community!

DPS Students, please take and share this survey: https://bit.ly/StudentStressInDPS

Our youth noticed that school is sometimes a difficult place to be through our participatory research. Considering students spend 40+hours each week on class, homework, and extracurriculars, they deserve more control over their school experience! Our youth leaders decided to do this study to figure out what's happening in DPS and what students think they might need to heal themselves and grow in their classrooms.

When youth fill out the survey, they’ll automatically be entered for a chance to win one of two $50 gift cards!

Black Girl Freedom Fund

At Project VOYCE we are honored to be one of 68 grantee partners of the@BlackGirlFreedomFund (BGFF), an initiative of @g4gc_org. Selected by their grantmaking council of six Black girls, femmes, and Black gender-expansive youth ages 14-22, these grants will support the leadership and organizing capacity of Black girls around the country. BGFF is a part of the #1Billion4BlackGirls campaign, which aims to mobilize $1 billion by 2030 to uplift Black girls.

Seeking Thunderbolts displaced by Manual's closure in 2006

Project VOYCE was founded in 2006 by Manual High School students fighting the temporary closure of their school. Over the last few years, T-Bolt peers have been pushing DenverPublic Schools to acknowledge their role in disrupting the Manual High School community and award those that met their graduation requirements during the ‘06 school closure to gain their rightful Manual High School diploma. Denver Public Schools has FINALLY agreed to honor displaced Manual students with a graduation!

Now 16 years later, DPS will move forward with this process and needs the names of those who were impacted by the school closure. If you graduated from another DPS school, you would receive a new official diploma from Manual High School (if you did not graduate, Denver Public Schools CAN NOT grant you an official diploma). However, DPS can help anyone get their GED and on graduation day this year, we can give them an unofficial certificate acknowledging the district's role in disrupting your education a decade and a half ago.

Please complete this form with the relevant information and share this with anyone you know from the 2005-2006 school year at Manual.

Generation Collaboration Podcast

Did you get a chance to check out S2E1 of Generation Collaboration podcast? Project VOYCE’s Executive Director, Vanessa Roberts, spoke with Colorado Young Leaders and Youth on Record about advancing social change through equitable youth-adult partnerships and the development of strategic agency