Join now!!! Program begins February 6 thru April 2012
URBAN TEEN MAGAZINE
BECOME A... 
JOURNALIST
REPORTER
PHOTOGRAPHER
POET
GRAPHIC ARTIST
.....AND MORE
Urban Teen Magazine program serves youth 13 through 18 years of age and educates teens in the field of magazine publishing, journalism and reporting. Urban Teen Magazine offers youth hands-on job job skills development within specific content areas which focus on real-world experiences that are relevant, challenging and meaningful to workforce environments. The Program empowers teens by improving and developing math, reading, writing, speech communication and research skills, as well as develops positive self esteem, character and relationship building and provides mentoring opportunities and teen leadership. Teens also develop skills in areas of leadership, decision-making, critical thinking, teamwork and organizational management.
Teens work together and individually towards their goal of creating from cover to cover magazine publication. Daily involving themselves in staff meetings, ad creation, they learn to coordinate their efforts to create a youth inspired teen magazine/publication while being guided through their creative writing and communication skills; drafting revisions, editing, proofreading, news reporting, photography, article developing and interviewing.
Our Youth Participants
The Urban Teen Magazine, the oldest of Elijah's House programs serving Chicago youth since October, 2003.
Elijah's House Urban Teen Magazine program attracts youth from communities throughout the Chicagoland area. These communities include Austin, North Lawndale, Oak Park, Humboldt Park, East and West Garfield Park, Englewood, Hyde Park, Woodlawn and South Chicago.
The Process
The Urban Teen Magazine Staff collaborates in a team setting, brainstorming ideas, researching data and developing content for article placement within the magazine.
In clearly defined roles as Reporters, Journalists, Photographers, Publishers and Editors each youth participant works to develop specific topics of interests. Their responsibility includes writing, drafting revisions, editing, proofreading, news reporting, photography and interviewing. Each task and effort moves them closer towards meeting a deadline for article placement.
Finally as the completion of a publication approaches, each youth along the way would have developed skills that prepare them for challenging workforce environments.
Our Product
The Urban Teen Magazine is a publication thathelps teen stretch their talents and imagination. It is created within the Black community and includes news, opinions and commentary. Written by youth whose roles are reporters, journalists and photographers, the publication covers diverse issues, such as school affairs, politics, sports, education, teen pregnancy, gang activity, health and other topics of interest to urban teens and the communities in which the live.