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Welcome To Vision, Visibility, & Voice!
My name is Ainsley Jo Phillips, and I'm involved in this wonderful organization called Invisible Youth Network in a number of ways, including being in on the early planning of it with our Founder and Chairman, Russell T. Hartsaw, one of the most amazing people I've ever met!
My "official" title at this time is Vice-Chairman of Media Relations--which I think fits me to a tee, as I'm a fulltime writer and online journalist, but I also manage our online store, which is a growing work-in-progress.
Vision, Visibility, & Voice is also a growing work-in-progress.
One of our volunteers, Sandra Williams, was the first person to put together a newsletter for us, and it was excellent. In fact, I've put her in charge of researching and reporting on conditions in Canada when it comes to homelessness and other situations affecting our young people.
However, she was being pulled in so many directions that she couldn't keep it up--which left open a place for a new editor for our newsletter.
As is often the case with Russell and me, we batted ideas back and forth, and we both came to the conclusion that it should go beyond the limitations of a newsletter and that it shouldn't be weekly, monthly, or seasonal but, instead, be ongoing--like a news and information website. But even more than that.
I started building a website to go along with our mission--which is to make people aware of the problems today's youth are facing as well as what, if anything, is being done to solve those problems.
So.......how would I define Vision, Visibility, & Voice?
In other words, what exactly is it?
A newsletter? A news magazette? A website? A neighborhood? A network? A forum? An educational site?
In my opinion, it's all of those things and then some!
This is a place to come together to read about, talk about, and decide what to do about circumstances that not only hold individuals back from being the best that they can be but, also, have the potential to bring out the worst in them.
So.......where should we start?