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Youth Radio 2 prevention projects is to develop a cadre of trained, media savvy young people across the state, including some who can speak to youth from "having been there." In addition, Youth Radio reaches young and adult audiences throughout the United States through its award winning programming, and provides journalists and news directors with technical assistance in cornmunicating with and involving youth. B. Youth Radio Program Areas Youth Radio has four main program areas: (1) Hands-on-Training; (2) Broadcast Programming; (3) Work Placement; and (4) Violence Prevention. 1. Hands-on Training in a Professional Setting Hands-on skills training is the cornerstone of Youth Radio. The Core Training is an intensive, ten-week course in the fundamentals of radio/media production and journalism. Students receive hands-on instruction, mentoring, and career guidance from some of the Bay Area's best journalists, engineers, and music programmers, including people from KCBS, KBLX, KMEL, KQED, KKSF, KPFA, Lucas Digital, and The GAVIN Report. As part of their training, students produce their own weekly show on KPFB-FM, Ymrth Lt Control, atwo-hour, live radio magazine by, for, and about teenagers. In this real-life ]earning laboratory, students are responsible for all aspects of production, from planning to engineering to announcing. Promising graduates of the core training are hired as Peer Teachers to train new students, further develop their skills, and staff the office. The concept of youth-training-youth has been so successful that more than half of the core training is now taught by Peer Teachers and they now participate in virtually every training situation at Youth Radio. Under close adult supervision, Peer Teachers develop leadership skills, act as role models for new students, and are paid for their work. Additional advanced learning opportunities aze available through internships, mentorships, and classes in new technologies such as multi-media, digital editing, and on-line communications. Thanks to a donation from Digidesign, students work with some of the best digital editing equipment in the Bay Area. Youth Radio is also developing its role as a multi-media center for at risk youth, including participation in a student-run Internet bulletin board sponsored by the San Jose Mercury News called Digital High which distributes youth-produced news and information to high schools around the state. 2. Youth Voices: Programming Bv, For, and About Youth Youth Radio provides a forum seldom heard in the media for youth to express their ideas and concerns. Working with these young people, reporters and producers around the country are realizing how much exciting material is missed when youth are excluded from the media.