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Phone: (734) 973-4384 Fax: (734) 973-4484 E-mail: info@tcw2.com |
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The Teen Center Without Walls was created by students from a number of different county high schools to offer safe youth driven activities for peers throughout south-eastern Washtenaw County.
This effort is a part of the Washtenaw Area Teens for Tomorrow Safe Places sub committee. The two youth co-chairs of that committee felt a new organization was necessary to address the lack of safe places for youth to go in Washtenaw County. When the organization was created, its youth volunteers spearheaded an effort to survey youth in Washtenaw County to see what activities they would like to see in a teen center. Click HERE to view the results.
The hope is to one day establish a teen center with walls. We are putting on events to show the leaders in the community that there is a demand for youth programming and the youth in the community would benefit from such a facility. The county currently benefits from this programming because we can guarantee that all youth who attend our events aren’t doing drugs or participating in other negative activities. This fits in with Washtenaw County’s positive youth development vision and shows the youth they can have fun and be safe at the same time! Jeremy KeeneyJeremy is a Senior at the University of Michigan Honors College with a major in Political Science, Economics, and pre-law. He joined WATT during his junior year of High School to increase youth involvement in the community. A year later, he created the Teen Center Without Walls organization in hopes of one day establishing a teen center for the south-eastern part of Washtenaw County. He has worked on almost every WATT and TCW2 event and plans to stay involved as long as possible. He is now the Program Director of WATT. Dean ClancyDean is part of the WATT team and is a freshman at the University of Michigan School of Art and Design. He started volunteering for WATT and TCW2 at the 2007 Teen Arts Festival and has been with the organization ever since. At the 2008 Teen Arts Festival he won the best in show prize. He plans to continue working with youth through college.
Meghan PeakeMeghan is the newest member to the WATT community and is currently a Junior at Washtenaw Community College. She is looking into transferring one day so she can graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science. She joined WATT her junior year of high school because she loves planning events for teens, as well as giving back to the community. She was one of the first pioneers in the Teen Center Without Walls organization and helped distribute the surveys discussed above. |
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Jeremy Keeney WATT Program Director |
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Dean Clancy WATT Intern |
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Meghan Peake WATT Intern |
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