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2024 vOICE2YOUTH 

POETRY sLAM  

cOMING aPRIL 27TH 

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ALL 3RD-12TH GRADERS ARE WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE  
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OUR FLAGSHIP POETRY AND LITERACY PROGRAM

Experience excellence with our renowned poetry and literacy program, meticulously crafted with best practices and field-tested exercises. Designed to ignite creativity and fortify literacy skills, this program prioritizes innovative instructional strategies to inspire and empower young minds.

 

Our 2023 Voice2Youth™ Poetry Slam
at Texas Christian University was an overwhelming triumph! 

 


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“TYDF has been resourceful in having high quality teaching artists staff to enhance the students social, personal and academic skills beyond the traditional school day. TYDF has provided a unique way to engage students in reading, writing, and expressing themselves articulately and confidently through the vehicle of writing Poetry.”
– Charlece Thomas JamesCoordinator for FWISD Fort Worth After School
“I want to, first of all, thank you and your team for helping our afterschool program offer educational and enriching activities for our students. I know personally that Sayuri has gotten so much out of this club the past few weeks, and she always tells me about some of the things she learned. This has truly had an incredible impact on her and I thank you from the bottom of my heart as an educator. I have known Sayuri for 2 years now as she was part of our afterschool program, which I supervised in previous years, and I am now her homeroom teacher. Truly, I cannot thank you enough for the learning opportunities and the passion for poetry and reading that you have ignited in her.”
– Peter HernandezTeacher
“Simply, it was an amazing, fun, new experience. For the first time in my life I felt like people actually wanted to hear what I had to say. It was thrilling, I felt so renewed after doing it. In so many other things, it’s just reciting a poem, or something somebody else wrote, but this, I got to say one of my very own poems.”
– Jennifer10th Grader
“It has been my experience that their services are as exemplary as their passion for promoting student achievement. Many of our students have overcome the fear of speaking in public, gained higher self-esteem, and improved their reading and writing skills.”
– Keith BessesPrincipal
“I have had the privilege of working with the Thank You Darlin’ Foundation for six consecutive years. I am very proud to have such a unique and fulfilling program at my school. My students receive opportunities to read, write and learn about the essence of poetry. These opportunities have allowed students to enhance their reading, writing, comprehension and presentation skills. As a culminating result of the above benefits, students that have participated in the TYD Foundation over the years have demonstrated great improvements in their character and self-esteem.”
– Seretha LoftonPrincipal
“The Thank You Darlin Foundation helped me. I’ve actually found a new way for me to express my feelings and now I feel more confident about myself.”
– Luke5th Grader
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Our Impact

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7,500+

K-12 students have reinforced their self confidence and literary skills

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3,500+

additional educational instruction hours

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8

published anthology books of original poems written by 3rd-12th graders

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90%

of program participants improved their vocabulary, reading comprehension & creative writing skills