HomeMy WebLinkAboutStaff Report 2303-108413.Colleague’s Memo Council Contingency Fund request for Try Harder! A Palo Alto
Community Screening Event
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CITY COUNCIL
Colleague’s Memo
Sponsor(s): Lydia Kou, Patrick Burt
Meeting Date: March 20, 2023
Report #: 2303-1084
TITLE
Colleague’s Memo: Council Contingency Fund request for Try Harder! A Palo Alto Community
Screening Event
RECOMMENDATION
In support of May as “Teen Mental Health Month” along with furthering the teen mental health
focus of the 2023 council priority of Community Health and Safety, the city will provide to YCS
$3,000 for the film license and screening fee from the Council Contingency Fund.
GOAL
An event to kick off and highlight May as Mental Health Month by opening conversations within
the community through supporting two of Palo Alto’s non-profit partners and school district
representatives.
BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION
The City of Palo Alto, in partnership with PTA Council, allcove, and Youth Community Services
(YCS) will host a screening of the documentary film, “Try Harder”, produced by Bay Area
filmmaker Debbie Lum. The documentary captures the pressures students face at San
Francisco’s elite Lowell High School. Try Harder! movie review & film summary (2021) | Roger
Ebert YCS and allcove are coordinating the event and will use the film as a learning tool paired
with YCS’s Call to Action workshop. YCS will be using the Developmental Relationship
Framework (DRF) to guide a discussion on how to support the youth in our lives. Youth from
YCS and allcove will co-lead the discussion along with adult staff members. YCS has a workshop
that will be paired with the film which will help adults think of ways they can utilize the DRF in
their own relationships with youth.
The PTA Council (PTAC) has reserved the use of the Palo Alto High School Theatres Haymarket
Theater for the viewing of the film. YCS and allcove will work together to plan the agenda of the
event and to train the youth facilitating the Call to Action workshop.
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Time/Date: Saturday May 6th, 2023 Time TBD (likely 2:00 to 4:30).
TIMELINE
February--train Youth Advisory Groups (YAG) and YCS Peer Leaders in the DRF for the May
event.
March--host planning meetings with youth leaders to decide on logistics of the event.
April--start promoting the event
May--event date and wrap up meeting.
FISCAL/RESOURCE IMPACT
This would reduce the Council contingency fund by $3,000 and leave a balance of $101,000 of
the original $125,000 for the remainder of FY 2023.
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