{"id":12611,"date":"2014-06-29T10:45:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T10:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/royyewah\/?p=80"},"modified":"2014-06-29T10:45:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T10:45:26","slug":"youth-empowerment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/youth-empowerment\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Empowerment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/royyewah\/files\/2014\/07\/photo-3-21.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-82\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/royyewah\/files\/2014\/07\/photo-3-21-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo 3 (2)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/royyewah\/files\/2014\/07\/photo-2-4.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-83\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/royyewah\/files\/2014\/07\/photo-2-4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"photo 2 (4)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In our June Challenge Detroit project, I was assigned to the Osborn neighborhood.\u00a0 Our group was asked to come up with a creative solution to addressing the blight situation in Osborn.\u00a0 Our proposed solution was an organization called the BOOM (Brighten Our Osborn Movement) Squad, where the youth of Osborn are challenged to come together, think collaboratively, and improve the blight\u00a0in their neighborhood.\u00a0 With Osborn&#8217;s high youth percentage, great retail, a natural park (Conner Creek), tight knit community, and one of Detroit&#8217;s only movie theaters, my team and I decided to take advantage of that within our creative solution.\u00a0 It&#8217;s programs like this that give the youth a chance to have some ownership in their own neighborhood that allows for children to want to come back to their neighborhood after they go off to college.\u00a0 Couldn&#8217;t be prouder of my team! BOOM SQUAD! Stay tuned as my time with Challenge Detroit winds down, Roy Yewah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In our June Challenge Detroit project, I was assigned to the Osborn neighborhood.\u00a0 Our group was asked to come up with a creative solution to addressing the blight situation in Osborn.\u00a0 Our proposed solution was an organization called the BOOM (Brighten Our Osborn Movement) Squad, where the youth of Osborn are challenged to come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blight","category-community-outreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}