May – June 2010 Issue

I wasn’t sure how to help my friend after she was sexually molested.

With so much conflicting information out there, Kiera, 16, realized she had to do her own research to figure out what she thought of the health care reform.

Adrian’s school can no longer afford to give him and his classmates extra career and college guidance.

They’re shortening the school year By Ashley Hansack, 17, King Drew Medical Magnet HS When I heard that LAUSD was

Going to a school where everyone seems similar taught Casey, 18, that it’s also about people with different experiences.

People think race is what makes people different from each other, but I have learned that it’s not race. It’s their experiences that make them different. At an expensive private school it is understandable that most people will come from wealthier families, but I wish more could be done to create a student body with families of different income levels, who live in different parts of the city.

L.A. Youth asked several of its staff members to tell us about the diversity (of lack of it) at their

CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of our annual art contest which asked teens to show us how they see themselves. The L.A. Youth teen staff chose these images as the winners.

Ben, 17, had just gotten close to his mom and then he worried he was going to lose her to cancer.

Brian, 15, is gaga for Glee, the hit show from Fox.

There wasn’t much for Ashley, 17, to eat at lunch until the cafeteria changed.