Youth Voices Rising — Audio Drama & Curriculum Hub
🎧 Storytelling for Healing, Empathy & Equity
Welcome to Youth Voices Rising, a growing collection of original audio dramas and curriculum tools designed to help young people explore identity, bias, trauma, and healing.
Each story is paired with an educator-friendly, standards-aligned curriculum guide for classroom, counseling, or community spaces.
🔹 1**. Behind the Chair**
Disability Bias. Assumptions. Empathy.
Justin doesn’t want to be paired with the student in a wheelchair. But a powerful conversation and a surprising basketball game shift everything.
Learning Focus: Disability awareness, peer bias, accountability, empathy.
🔹 2. Coping with Neighborhood Violence
Grief. Guilt. Hard questions.
In the aftermath of a school tragedy, a group of students sits with a counselor and shares their fears, their anger, and the truth no one wants to say: what if the shooter was my friend?
Learning Focus: Grief, trauma, survivor guilt, community healing.
🔹 3. Known for Something: TikTok Betrayal
Reputation. Social media. Friendship.
When Stacey sees herself in a TikTok she never approved, her world flips. How do you rebuild trust when your name spreads before your truth does?