Jenn Sramek talks about how CivicActions became Drupal mentors and trainers to youth at non-profit organization called EPA.net. Nancy Brink originally came to CivicActions asking for a Drupal website that was beyond the scope of their given budget, and what evolved from there was to train the youth from EPA's community enterprise program to learn how to build the Drupal site and run their own business.
As a result, the idea of EPA.net CREATIVE was born where the youth would be involved in building the Drupal site of http://creative.epa.net. Jenn and a number of East Palo Alto youth from EPA.net CREATIVE came to DrupalCon to present at a session titled: "Open Source Opens Doors for Youth: a professional/nonprofit/foundation collaboration builds a youth social enterprise"
Also included in this podcast interview are some of the youth from the program including Soli Tuulaupua, Silvia Molina, William Molina, Selagi Nimo Lesu'i, and Jesus Hernandez.
Jenn expressed interest in replicating this model and building more youth mentorship and training programs as a way to spread Drupal into different at-risk communities, but also to open new doors for these youth by working with open source.
For more information, be sure to check out the video of their DrupalCon presention: