North End Youth Summit 2024
May 25, 2024
Agenda
KAN Youth Summit 2024
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Saturday, May 25, 2024
House Keeping
• Attendance: Make sure you are registered - bit.ly/kanyouth
• Please mute yourself
• Use the chat for questions
and comments
• Session recording and slide
deck will be shared
• Q & A After Party will follow
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Introductions
Welcome to the KAN Youth Summit!
Place your name, school, favorite place to be/visit!
KAN Youth Summit 2023
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Saturday, April 15, 2023
Who are we?
Know Allegiance Nation is a youth-centered organization that empowers young people with the skills and resources necessary to develop solutions that positively impact their lives and the world around them. �Literacy and knowledge attainment is at the core of all that we do.
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�To be empowered means that you are given the authority or power to do something. This empowerment helps you to become stronger and more confident, especially in making the decisions that control your life. ��The following are a few examples of youth empowerment….
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What is it? Why is it important?
Youth �Empowerment Models
�Love & Logic��Summerhill School
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Love and Logic
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The important freedom at Summerhill is the right to play. All lessons are optional. There is no pressure to conform to adult ideas of growing up, though the community itself has expectations of reasonable conduct from all individuals.
Summerhill School
Let’s Discuss…
�With examples of youth empowerment on our minds, let’s discuss with each other times when we have personally felt as if we were given the freedom and power to make decisions. ��Join us in breakout rooms for 10 minutes and on Jamboard at the link in the chat to discuss your experiences of empowerment to the whiteboard.
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Share Out!
For the next 5 minutes, we’d like to have 5 attendees to share your experience of being empowered.
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5 Minute Break
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Tapping Into Your Creativity with Mama Cleo
Know Allegiance Nation�(KAN)’s mission is
To Build A Nation of Knowledge Seekers through Consciousness Raising and literacy attainment.
Pillars 1 – Basic Literacy
Pillar 2 – Advanced Literacy
Pillar 3 – Survival Literacy
4 – Adult Literacy
Know Allegiance Nation (KAN) is a village building enterprise that seeks to build a nation of knowledge seekers through consciousness raising and literacy attainment.
We teach and provide literacy programs primarily to inner city youth to grow their knowledge, so that they can grow up to pass knowledge on to the next generation of youth that will eventually become elders nurturing their villages/communities.
We organize. We train and mobilize volunteers and emerging leaders to take direct action in bettering their communities.
KAN has been in existence since 2005. We incorporated and received 501c3 status in 2020.
Our long term vision is to increase access to literacy resources in the city of Detroit starting with the North End neighborhood. Our future plans include owning land, becoming a publisher and opening a bookstore and cultural center on land we own.
A Deeper Look Into KAN…
Mission & Services Provided
There are 4 main pillars of Know Allegiance Nation – Basic Literacy, Advanced Literacy, Survival Literacy & Adult Literacy.
Programs
Annual Events
A Deeper Look Into KAN…
We Are Building A Nation through Passing on Knowledge to Young People that will Become�� Elders that will Pass on Knowledge to Young People.
PILLAR I:��ILLUMINATE: �LITERACY�ENTREPRENEURS
Basic Literacy
it all starts with �READING & WRITING
In the Illuminate Program, young people learn to write for themselves and get to a point where they can share and put a price on their work.
The Illuminate Students Host an Open Mic Series to showcase their skills, feature their peers and to sell their work.
Each Graduate has a release party to highlight their finished projects. Deena Allen had her release party in 2018 and sold over $400 worth of inventory in one day.
write for self 1st and foremost
Self reflection is a healing tool. Writing for self can look like journaling, free-writing, or free verse poetry.
We start from here then we get to a point where we help students get comfy with sharing their work with others.
Much conflict and turmoil exists with how we deal with trauma or how we don’t. Writing allows us an outlet to think through potential solutions or simply vent. Which both are needed sometimes.
not all books look the same
We are creating new books. Ones that youth and adults will read. Our classrooms look like the garden, park, bookstore, art gallery and riad/courtyard. The pages of our books look like banners and rain barrels. Our authors are the community.
#communitypoems
���PILLAR 2:��OPERATION�REBEL�COMMUNITY RADIO
Advanced Literacy
we archive our stories when no one else will
Community Radio is a tool that we use to create counter narratives against narratives created by non-Detroiters and part time Detroiters that don’t know the full story.
We use radio to archive voices that haven’t been heard and to pass them on to the families and children of the future that need to have these heirloom seeds.
PILLAR 3:��KAN FARMS
Survival Literacy
Agrarianism �& �Agriculture
Young people learn about self-determination - about learning to grow food as a means of survival due to an instable food system. Young peeps are trained to grow food and sell produce at market. #GrownInDetroit
They are also taught who owns land, who has a right to own; who’s land we are own and who’s has been taken to make “land ownership” possible.
Food is Not Possible w/o Land
Land is finite. Thus students become stewards of the earth and learn about sustainable farming practices and natural fertilizer such as the compost pictured in the KAN Farms first slide.
PILLAR 4:��KAN BOOKS
Adult Literacy
Co-Op Business�Initiative
KAN Books is a Co-Op Bookstore dedicated to Michigan Authors of Color.
The Co-Op has about 25 Members.
Most books that are sold, even if they are children’s books, are purchased by adults.
The Bookstore serves as a literacy hub for adults providing writing workshops, editing support and connections to illustrators for their projects.
Co-Op Members�Volunteer
KAN Books Co-Op members pay a monthly membership in both money and time. Our lowest membership fee is $5 and 20 volunteer hours/month. The next is $10 and 15 volunteer hours a month and so on.
The idea is that we collectively share the story of the co-op for collective wealth. Volunteer hours are worked at the physical store, vending locations, and passing the word electronically.
KAN Internship Program
Internship Timeline
April - May - Interviews and Pre-training
May 31st - KAN’s deadline for registration & enrollment
June - Orientation & Training
July - Start of internships
August - The Healing Festival/End of Internships
Support
If you need any support with the summer intern registration process through GDYT, please contact Lanay Gilbert-Williams at youth@knowallegiance.org.
Internship Process
Work Permits
Under 18? Want to intern with KAN? Make sure you complete a work permit form. If you 14 & 15 - the form is landscape (sideways). If you 16 & 17, the form is portrait (up and down). Inform us if you need a form. School will need fill out form.
��KAN INTERN OPPORTUNITIES
��Registration,
Interview,
Selection Process
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Q & A�Time!
Upcoming
KAN
Events
This year’s planning is in
the works!
We Pledge Allegiance to Knowledge.
#knowallegiance
#literacybyanymeans
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Thank You!
Know Allegiance Nation
youth@knowallegiance.org
www.knowallegiance.org
KAN Youth Summit 2023
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Saturday, April 15, 2023
Q & A After Party
Ask more questions!!!!
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