MUTICULTURAL INTEGRATED KIDNEY EDUCATION PROGRAM (MIKE PROGRAM)

Description

This program unites adult volunteers with youth who are 14-21 years old to develop a teaching tool to prevent kidney disease. This teaching tool, developed for an audience of early adolescents from 10-13 years old, can be in the form of a skit, poster presentation, puppet show, comic book, rap, dance, video, etc. The volunteers and youth work as a team to develop a tool that their audience will find engaging, then present this tool in service to their community. It might be used as a resource at community fairs, in the classroom, and/or at a specially designed presentation. As an example, the youth at the Youth Opportunity Center in Northeast Portland presented a Kidney Karnival to their community in conjunction with Youth Service Day 2004