The city of Salinas Library and Community Service Department received a grant from the David & Lucile Packard Foundation to redevelop Cesar Chavez Park located in the eastside of Salinas, CA. Adults, Youth and Children were invited to attend a community forum to determine how to improve the park.

Activists discuss with teens the value of Civic Activism and the Cesar Chavez Movie. Civic engagement involves “working to make a difference in the civic life of one’s community and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. It means promoting the quality of life in a community, through both […]

On this program we talked with “Urban Artists Collective” from Salinas, California, a group of artists that makes their art with materials that are useless to many of us. They shared with us their view of the importance of having arts programs in their city and how it has helped them personally to become mentors […]

A group of at-risk youth students from Rancho Cielo chose Radio Bilingue’s youth radio program Alza Tu Voz / Speak Out, to present their horror radio drama produced in collaboration CSU Monterey Bay Cinematography Department. A project to help students develop communication skills. Media Coverage on The Monterey Herald newspaper – read

As part of the School for Success Express tour throughout California, On Monday, November 4, 2013 in Los Padres Elementary School in the City of Salinas students, parents, teachers, and activists share with educational leaders how to improve schools using the 18 million coming to Salinas Schools by 2020. This funding made available through California’s […]

Gallery from Radio Bilingüe’s KHDC Salinas Youth Radio Training Project

Community Dialogues on Violence Prevention are showcased in this production — The Board of Supervisors for Monterey County, CA held four community dialogues in four different cities. Two Radio Bilingüe KHDC Salinas youth radio participants attended the forum in Salinas on May 9, 2013. The Youth Producers interviewed local political leaders, teachers, parents and youth […]

Three of the youth participants in the Radio Bilingüe KHDC Youth Radio Project interviewed school administrators, teachers, students and parents about their opinions on zero tolerance policies in the discipline plans and practices at schools.  This feature includes comments gathered, as well as information about school discipline raised during two related talk shows on restorative […]

Teens have many questions about sexuality, but they commonly receive misinformation based on myths from their peers, the media, and other sources. Often parents also do not provide their teens with accurate information (or any information at all). This feature centered on how and from whom teens get information about sex and how they and […]

This news report highlighted the pro-immigration reform marches organized in several cities in California and across the Nation in March 2013. Two KHDC Salinas youth trainees covered the Marcha in Salinas California on March 24, organized by unions including the United Farm Workers and the Teamsters. Farmworkers, activists, politicians, students and supporters walked the streets […]