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Youth Revive is an education nonprofit closing the civic empowerment gap through character and civic education for youth in low-income communities. Established in 2013, Youth Revive provides programs and services that empower students to become character-driven, wanting to rebuild, reconnect, and revive their community.
Our Ignite Me program design includes a framework for civic character that develops students in civic knowledge, civic motivation, civic dispositions, and civic skills. Our Ignite Me curriculum includes five substructures to our framework for civic character: 1. Community 2. identity, capacities, and assets. 3. Fairness and equity. 4. Media and research, and 5. Community action project day.
One student described her experience with the Ignite Me program by saying, “I learned more about police brutality and its causes. I am really passionate about police brutality because of how big of an issue it is in my community of South Dallas. I love the Ignite Me program because we did a variety of different activities, it was never the same thing.”
During the 2021 school year, out of 227 students, 61% completed a community action project. After completing our Ignite Me program, 87% of students demonstrated increased levels of agreement that they know the four categories of a Community Asset Map, 79% of students demonstrated increased levels of agreement that they have a clear understanding of their “civic footprint,” and 74% of students demonstrated increased levels of agreement that they know how to find the key elected officials who represent their community.