Individuals develop on their own. The program includes yearly activities in community building. Youth produce and lead one or two teen forums each year. These forums have included such issues as substance abuse, gang involvement and sexual abuse and use either drama or PRP videos as the leadoff for discussion. Turnout for these forums has numbered 100 teenagers from the immediate neighborhood.
Participants advertise their own events and get their peers and friends to come.
PRP has also conducted advocacy projects in which youth identify a neighborhood need and attempt to meet it in the political arena. When a recreation facility was being built in the Tenderloin in 1992, older sdolescents were afraid it wouldn't serve their age group. The PRP core group contacted the San Francisco Parks and Recreation Department and set up a meeting between 100 neighborhood young people and public officials to ask how the City intended to address their needs. As a result the City's program administrator put together a plan of services for older youth. Finally, the major arts projects themselves have been exercises in community building.