Description: The Beat Within’s mission is to provide incarcerated youth with consistent opportunity to share Description: Their ideas and life experiences in a safe space that encourages literacy, self-expression, some critical thinking skills, and healthy, supportive relationships with adults and Description: Their community.
The Beat Within is a writing and conversation program in juvenile halls - and a weekly magazine that grows out of that program. The Beat was founded in 1996 when a social worker inside San Francisco's Youth Guidance Center realized that there was no vehicle for the anguished voices of the incarcerated youth he heard. He decided to provide that vehicle, and The Beat was born. The Beat Within is published by Pacific News Service, a San Francisco nonprofit organization. noc...