Growing Pains

Many of the media projects that are the basis for these interviews have been in existence for three years or less. Not only are youth workers and participants in moments of identity formation, uncertainty and sometimes, even crisis, the programs that house them are themselves the teenagers of the social development set. The ‘youthfulness’ of youth media projects has a large impact on the way that youth workers perceive their work and its viability in the long term.

Growing Pains Playlist

This is a playlist of clips in the 'Growing Pains' theme. To read transcripts for each clip please select the full nodes provided below.
Note: The playlist will play clips continuously in order of appearance according to list at right.

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Christina: Growing Pains

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"I think the Sense Project is having growing pains too and is coming into its own and is trying out things and like oh that doesn't fit, that doesn't work, and oh that person doesn’t like me, whatever, I’m not going to like go hide in the corner and cry, like I’m actually going to find ways to like be myself, and so, in a way, it's funny how the Sense Project is like a teenager in many ways."

Miriam: An "Average" Day

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"I think nothing ever got done 100% so this research is kind of half-done. The fundraising definitely didn’t get done to the best of its ability. If there’s only one person doing 5 things, then everything gets done 1/5 of the possibility that it could get done."

Miriam: Funding and Fitting In

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"The library I was working from is a private library, and was not funded by the government – there were so many different cracks we fell into, but there is never ever a place that we landed and thought, this is a place where we could get some money!”

Neil: Getting Paid

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"I have more energy then I probably will as I get older. I’m sure I would love to get paid, but at the same time I enjoy what I’m doing, and I think I get things from it, and experiences and lessons learned from it that you can’t put a monetary value on."