Recording, collecting, viewing, hearing and listening to teen experiences in 2020

The #WeWereHere Project aims to create a repository of teen voices in the historic time of 2020. If you are a teen, we want to hear from you how this unprecedented year of great social upheaval and pandemic has affected you. If you are a librarian, you can learn how to help and join your library to the project here. If you are just an interested person, please spread this project, use the hashtag, and amplify youth voices locally. Now is the time to hear and more importantly listen to young people.

• I Am Here: Your words, images, and firsthand accounts of 2020
  

  Examples - Video diaries, protest footage, photo journals and essays

• I Am Helping: Your community projects, tips, and useful information
  

  Examples- Helpful tips, safety precautions, survival strategies

• I Am Okay: Sharing how to stay positive
  

  Examples - Positive messages, community-building projects, anything humorous

• I Am Not Okay: And that's okay, you can vent and be heard
  

  Examples - Let your anger out in art and poetry and use it for motivation