Beacon Hill Street Stories was a project designed for youth ages 13 through 18.
Street Stories provided Feet First the opportunity to work with our partners
including the National Park Service
Washington Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects
and Seattle Parks and Recreation to create an innovative
to create an innovative youth engagement project.
At Feet First our mission is to ensure that all communities in Washington
Street Stories plays an important role in achieving this—
giving a voice to youth. This voice is critical to the future health and
vitality of our communities.
The Street Stories project took place over 5 weeks.
Youth learned the how, why and what makes
a neighborhood walkable. They shared their new found knowledge
and passion through story telling and creating short videos.
We are excited to bring Street Stories to Beacon Hill as well as
other neighborhoods in Seattle and across Washington State.
In the National Park Service we have something called "A Call to Action,"
which is a plan we are using all over the country to help guide us into the future.
The Street Stories project embraces many of these actions we'd like to take,
which include
connecting people to parks; working in diverse, urban neighborhoods;
engaging youth; and promoting health and wellness.
So, really, it's a win, win, win project. Partnerships are an important part of all the
projects we work on.
Seattle Parks and Recreation-- and Jean Lee-
provided a great place to have our class here at Jefferson Community Center,
and the students came mostly from schools within the neighborhood.
We also have a long-standing relationship with both the American Society of Landscape Architects,
and the
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park here in Seattle, so we
were super excited to bring
professional designers and storytellers into the Teen Room to interact with the students.
And Feet First brought producers in from KUOW
Public Radio's Youth Program to work with the kids on interview techniques.
So it was really a well-rounded-out partnership.