BY Shamil Hameed and Thomas Kendziora
The Bigger Picture, a collaboration between youth poetry program Youth Speaks and the University of California, San Francisco's Center for Vulnerable Populations, is on a mission to combat
BY Shamil Hameed and Thomas Kendziora
The Bigger Picture, a collaboration between youth poetry program Youth Speaks and the University of California, San Francisco's Center for Vulnerable Populations, is on a mission to combat the growing problem of Type 2 Diabetes. Young poets are given a virtual platform to speak out on the issue, and the effects thus far have been overwhelmingly positive. According to a clicker survey, the number of students who believed that Type 2 Diabetes can be caused by social and environmental factors increased from 34 percent before the videos were shown at a school assembly to 83 percent afterwards, and the number who said they "cared a lot" about the issue rose from 29 to