As Program Director of The Hamilton Essentials Foundation Inc.,  I am ecstatic to personally invite you to stay connected to a foundation that is centered and rooted around the artistic expression and development of youth and young adults.  Daily, we’re striving to provide positive and productive avenues for youth to use their voices! For our Media Minded Journalism & Media Boot Camp held at The Boy's & Girl's Club of San Bernardino, CA, youth created their own song about being "Media Minded" as they explore issues at a community level, family level, and a personal level that lead to alcohol and substance abuse, lack of social responsibility and poor mental health.  Produced by Mickell Tyler and written by youth of The Boy's & Girl's of San Bernardino, CA.  Media Minded was made possible in part by a grant from The West End Youth Grantmakers Committee and Reach Out and the partnership with The Boys & Girls Club of San Bernardino, CA.

MEDIA MINDED JOURNALISM BOOT CAMP 2014 mp3

As Program Director of The Hamilton Essentials Foundation Inc.,  As always, I am ecstatic to personally invite you to stay connected to a foundation that is centered and rooted around the artistic expression and development of youth and young adults.  Daily, we’re striving to provide positive and productive avenues for youth to use their voices! For the 2nd year, our Media Minded Journalism & Media Program was held at The Boy's & Girl's Club of San Bernardino, CA. Youth created their own song about being "Media Minded" as they explore issues at a community level, family level, and a personal level that lead to alcohol and substance abuse, lack of social responsibility and poor mental health.  Produced by Mickell Tyler and written with the help of song writer and recording artist, Ehmandah, Media Minded was made possible by grant from ASML 30 for Change Foundation.

MEDIA MIND JOURNALISM BOOT CAMP  2015

The Hamilton Essentials Foundation, Inc. and The Boys & Girls Club of San Bernardino teamed up yet again, to bring the much-needed Media Minded boot camp back to the community.  

July is Social Wellness Month and The Media Minded Journalism Boot Camp used hip-hop, music, and the influences of media, to serve youth between the ages of 12-17 years of age in the areas of identifying and analyzing social responsibility while developing vocational skills related to journalism, media, song writing, and music. 

Students used this opportunity to engage in building relationships with one another, conveying their thoughts and ideas on how to better their communities and learned how to better deal with conflicts. 

Hosted by Monette Hamilton, Program Director of The Hamilton Essentials Foundation, youth partnered with graphic designer Mia Lee, community activist Samantha Gupta, and singer and songwriter Ehmanda to write and produce their own song entitled “My Life Matters”.

This program was sponsored in part by The Community Foundation Youth Grant Makers and The Boys & Girls Club of San Bernardino. 

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Monette was definitely born with a gift for oratory and has a unique gift to motivate a group of any age. Since 1998, she’s been honored and humbled to serve in her community by providing enrichment spoken word and culturally related assemblies for several school districts, community centers, faith-based and nonprofit organizations. While listening to the voice of students that related to the assemblies, she furthered her poetic quest by expanding the components and curriculum to address the hunger for creative writing. “The Let’s Write Out Loud Program” and “Safe Speech Creative Writing Sessions” programs, based on the Common Core Standards in English/language arts, were developed by her to help kids fall in love with words. Over the years, Monette took her experiences of working with young poets, writers and artists and expanded her quest even further by focusing on the power of social media. She wrote The Media Minded Journalism & Media Internship Program to help youth gain knowledge and work experience in various vocations, representing journalism, television, radio and social media. 


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