The Power of Forgiveness is WXXI's multi year-long initiative as part of The Campaign for Love & Forgiveness, a national community engagement initiative exploring the transforming power of love and forgiveness in our personal lives and communities.
News 2008-2009
The Center for Youth, Inc. will utilize its strong connections to youth in our community to create a pilot program that is relevant to the young people whose concerns they are addressing. The goal will be to engage young people in a meaningful way to help them interpret the message of forgiveness in a way that matters to them. A teen group will participate in a youth led mini documentary production.
Sector 8 Youth/Adult Partnership a project of The Community Place of Greater Rochester, Inc. (CPGR) will host a series of facilitated community conversations. A teen group will participate in a youth led mini documentary production.
The Downtown Community Forum will host a screenings of the PBS documentaries “Traces of the Trade” (3/24/09) and “Anyone and Everyone” (4/29/09). These screenings will be free and open to the public followed with a facilitated conversation.
The Gay Alliance of Genesee Valley (GAGV) will host a series of conversations for the LGBT community. Campaign resources and materials will be adapted for GAGV’s Community Safety Program which looks at pain, rejection, hurt, forgiveness, unforgiveness, safety & well-being.
Grace United Methodist Church will hold a series of conversations with a Women’s group, a Men’s group, a Teen’s group and The Deacon’s Table which serves close to 180 multi-generational people each Saturday morning. Under the leadership of NCBI, a few past conversation participants will move into the role as facilitator to solidify and enhance their learning as they become new teachers. A teen group will participant in a youth led mini documentary production.
Upstate New York Chapter of the National Coalition Building Institute, Inc. (NCBI) will act as WXXI’s key partner providing community partner planning and meeting facilitation, mentoring of partner facilitators and facilitation of community activities beyond the conversations.
WXXI will host a screening event of “Traces of the Trade” with filmmaker Katrina Brown. The event will take place as part of the WXXI Voices Lecture Series on February 22, 2009.
A Digital Storytelling Workshop will be incorporated into an existing project, Raising 100,000 Voices (representing the 100,000 youth that come of age in Monroe County each year) a community-wide project, led by WXXI and the University Of Rochester Department Of Mental Health Promotions. The project is designed to provide youth and young adults the skills needed to produce 2-3 minute mini documentaries. In these documentaries, youth articulate to the broader community a need to remove tragedy, grief, fear and boredom from their daily contexts to improve their independence and health status.
