New Approaches: Using Video to Connect Youth to Work
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How Hack the Hood Inspires Youth to Work in Tech

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A Two-Legged Support System
From the interviews and observations, Winnow identified the elements that make Hack the Hood such a strong source of learning and purpose for disconnected youth.

First, the Hack the Hood program places youth in the center of two important ecosystems:

1. Community resources to handle the difficulties of showing up for work everyday.

2. Access to a diverse set of inspiring people and companies throughout the complex Tech ecosystem




This is a Job and a Community

Next, the youth in the program experience much more than making websites. They are treated as responsible team members who are learning the professional skills of being successful in a diversity of Tech roles. These four elements come together to take kids who enter the program saying,
“I’m going to learn to make a website” to youth who tell us, “I can see myself in Tech.”


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