They are now developing a Web site to help educate their
peers on the same issues and plan to visit elementary and
middle school students this year to pass on Internet safety
messages. Students also created individual blogs this week.
"We're trying to develop youth to be leaders in
the city and the state and the nation and the world. With
the Internet, it's not just local," said Akua
Goodrich, the program's director who helped found the
Power Unit for Motivating Youth, an after-school and
mentoring program in the city. "We have to prepare them
to be safe and help spread the message."
