The goal of ROOTS STREAM is to lend further credence to the notion that spoken word poetry through its rich indigenous traditions can serve as a psychoeducational vehicle for enhancing resilience against gang recruitment and violent extremism by providing alternatives to, and reducing the risk profile of, vulnerable youth in at-risk circumstances and opportunity youth to criminal involvement. The STREAM model will be facilitated at:
NALIS Public Libraries Nationwide
STORYTELLING promotes social change by sharing lived experiences & social realities to develop success-oriented habits:
TRAINING, READING, and ENTREPRENEURSHIP focuses on 21st Century skills and “visual poetry” for social impact:
ART promotes The Boto Express – featuring Granny Sol Sol, Cascadoo the Fish, and Boto the Plastic Bottle – that creates an experience of outreach learning and recreation through traditional and modern games by having fun participating in peaceful, positive, and healthy community activities:
MENTORSHIP based on the Abyssinia a Journey of CHANGE [Challenging Harmful and Negative Gender Expressions] model, this component will explore values, behaviors, skills, and capabilities thereby creating a culture of peace that offers lifelong learning, and guidance using the Life Management curriculum:
