Last summer he had participants set up a television monitor on the sidewalk in front of an apartment building and play a video. Neighborhood kids made fun of it. The program is there to inspire youth so that they can change destiny as it happens and feel hope that the community will be improved with their contributions. 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.