Learn and rehearse Classical Music. This is all thanks to project step which stands for string training and education program. The rigorous yearround classical string Training Program for minority youth invites them into the world of Classical Music from which they have traditionally been excluded. Now, to offer some more insight into this very unique program which is even reaching the white house, we have invited gabriella sanna, the project step executive director and also with lauryn phinney, a 17yearold violinist who has attended and excelled within the program. Welcome to urban update. Thank you for coming in. Thank you for inviting us. Reporter gabriella, let me start with you. Take me through the program. And tell us our viewers what it is all about. Project step was prompted by the realization that certain racial minorities are largely underrepresented in this imbalance by providing indepth rigors of stringtraining to children of color and latino. And the program started with a
By Brita Belli
April 28, 2021
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Artist rendering of new Y2Y New Haven space.
More than 800 young adults, ages 18 to 24, in the greater New Haven area are estimated to be homeless, according to the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness. But there are only 12 “emergency” beds designated specifically for this group in area shelters, and no shelters in the state dedicated to homeless youth.
That will change this fall in New Haven, thanks to the efforts of Yale students in partnership with community organizations. A new overnight program for homeless youth called Y2Y New Haven (short for “Youth to Youth”), which is modeled on the nation’s first youth-run homeless shelter in Cambridge, Massachusetts, reinvents the idea of a homeless shelter as a safe space for youth, by youth, with gathering spaces, workshops, and a modern design aesthetic.
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