Youth Communication provides powerful, teen-written stories
and professional development to help educators and youth workers engage young people.
Our literacy-rich training model helps teachers, after-school workers, counselors, and other professionals to connect with the teens they serve and build their social and emotional learning skills. Since 1980, Youth Communication has created resources for over 35,000 educators, reaching more than two million young people.
Real Stories
Real Change
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Our stories, developed in a rigorous writing program, are uniquely compelling to youth whose voices are missing from mainstream content. The stories model social and emotional learning, and show teens how to make positive changes in their lives. They also motivate teens to read and write.
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News & Events
Our top stories of 2021
As the year ends, we’d like to thank our teen writers for sharing stories that informed and inspired thousands of their peers during the year. Read a few of their most popular stories of 2021.
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Novelist Edwidge Danticat, on writing for Youth Communication
Did you know that Edwidge Danticat’s first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was inspired by a story she wrote for Youth Communication at the age of 14, called “A New World Full of Strangers”? She shared what it was like to publish her story as a teen in the 1980s.
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Teen writers changing the world, with their own words
Meagan Zullo: “Everyone has the potential to achieve greatness”
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Our writers inform thousands of educators about what students need to thrive
Reaching new audiences with our media partners at Chalkbeat and The Nation.
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