Happy Healthy Teens Enjoy Safe Love Dance
Verquon Harris, a first year attendee to the Safe Love Dance stated, “Wow that was such a fun dance, do you do this every year?” I told Verquon that yes the Safe Love Dance is an annual event and happens each year at the Dorchester House Multi-Service Center. Verquon then exclaimed, “You should have more parties like this!”
The Dorchester Youth Council in collaboration with Social Capital Inc. (SCI) hosted its seventh annual Safe Love Dance this past Friday, February 19th at the Dorchester House gymnasium. The Safe Love Dance combined a safe place to dance and party with an informative health fair featuring 19 local health organizations, among them were Close to Home, Start Strong Boston, MAP for Health, and La Alianza Hispana. In order to enter the dance, teens were required to interact with at least four of the attending organizations and receive information on healthy teen relationships, safe sex, abstinence, STD/HIV/AIDS awareness, self confidence, nutritional health and violence prevention. By the end of the dance, over 160 Dorchester teens successfully engaged with the attending organizations and improved their relationship skills through skits promoting healthy relationships.
DJ Rolling Rick provided the tunes and beats, while volunteers from SCI and the Dorchester community welcomed and engaged the teens. Eddie Brimage and the Powerhouse Krumpers from the Dorchester Youth Collaborative captivated with a spectacular krumping performance, getting the crowd hyped up for the dance.
The SCI Dorchester Youth Council, a DotWell youth leadership program, is a group of young leaders that meet once a week to discuss new and exciting activities for youth to better their community. Council members encourage other youth to become community leaders and help solve the problems of today’s youth. SCI Dorchester is coordinated through a partnership between Social Capital Inc. (SCI) and DotWell.
For more information about the Dorchester Youth Council's Safe Love Dance please contact Keith Pernell at 617-740-2580 or keith.pernell@dotwell.org . To learn more about other community service learning projects organized by the council, visit www.mydorchester.org or www.dotwell.org
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