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Manos Center proposes youth council after Lincoln Heights students research local needs
Summary
Dr. Ernest Davis of Manos Center presented a six-week youth research program and proposed forming a youth council of grades 7'12 students to report ideas to the Village Council; councilmembers asked for logistics and several volunteered to help plan.
Dr. Ernest Davis, director of Manos Center, told the Lincoln Heights Village Council on May 27 that a youth research program run with Saint Monica's produced proposals from local students and that many participants recommended forming a youth council to convey youth priorities to the council.
Davis said the Young Researchers program trains students in survey research over six sessions, pays participants $20 per session ("so if they come to all 6 sessions, nice little $220 in their pocket"), and yielded ideas…
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