Strength in Storytelling: My Story, My Power

My Story, My Power is a storytelling program designed to mobilize youth with lived experience of homelessness and housing insecurity to tell their stories from a place of empowerment rather than victimhood. Our goal is not only to create a wealth of stories that depict various experiences of youth homelessness but also to empower youth to see that they are more than their trauma and that they have built power through what they have overcome. My Story, My Power will provide youth with the opportunity to engage with their life experiences through a variety of mediums, to help youth to process their lived experiences in a sustainable, healthy fashion, while building confidence.  My Story, My Power will also equip youth with practical tools, skills, and language to help them share their stories in ways that will enable them to help advocate for the changes that they wish to see in the system. My Story, My Power is a multi-year project that will follow a cohort approach, engaging graduates of previous cohorts in the leadership of the next cohorts to remain a peer-driven program.