3. Get Kinekt-ed
• Kinekt is your link to:
– opportunities (jobs, internships, community service
hours)
– services (health, counseling, financial aid)
– Events
– Resources (school, library, after school programs)
• Information at your finger-tips!
• KineKt takes data from reliable sources, makes it
useful, and delivers it straight to you.
• Fast, efficient, reliable, private.
4. Audience
• All youth, ages 12-18
– Most at risk for getting into trouble if not given the
support they need to grow and thrive in the
community.
– Need access to services, programs, get involved in the
community.
– Raised on Sound bytes, search, social networks. Web
information is not accessible unless you know what to
search for.
– Needs support from family, school, youth
programs, councilors, teachers.
6. PROBLEMS YOUTH FACE
• SCHOOL: The graduation rate for OUSD students is
only 60%.
• TEENAGE PREGANANCY: Over 8%of all births in
Oakland are to teenage mothers.
• GANG ACTIVITY strongly affects Oakland’s
communities and is attributed with committing most
of the acts of violent crime.
• HEALTH: Hospitalization rates due to asthma for
Oakland children are four times higher than for all
California children, at 775 per 100,000. They need
better access to health care services.
7. Kinekt with your community
Social Government
Mores policies
Child
Protection
School
Faith Teachers Social
Communities
workers
Relatives
After
Mental
Police school Neighbors Friends Sports
Health
programs
CHILD
Parents Siblings
peers
Counselors
Library Doctors
The Web of Support Juvenile
Justice Media
8. THE “YOUTH DEVELOPMENT” OPPORTUNITY
Search Institute created the developmental assets framework for healthy
youth. For more information, visit www.search-institute.org.
KineKt focuses on these assets:
• Youth as resources in our community- Young people are
given useful roles in the community.
• Safety – young person feels safe at home, school, and in the
neighborhood.
• Creative activities – young people need to spend three or
more hours a week in less lessons or practice in music,
theater, or other arts.
• Youth programs – young person spends three or more
hours per week in sports, clubs, or organizations at school
and/or in the community.
10. KineKt - Technology
• Based on proven RSS reader technology.
• This is targeted content. No searching or set up required.
• Get specific information about the community directly to
the youth of the community.
• Empower youth to make choice, get involved, feel
connected.
• Use SMS to share and connect with friends, school.
• Use geo-location to find how to get places.
• Use content from reliable/ safe sources in the community -
Web pages/ RSS feeds / twitter are loaded with data.
• Our content is secure because we only provide RSS feeds to
specific reliable resources.
14. What can I do?
• Browse content to find what you want:
– Neighborhood news
– Jobs listings
– Health and wellness programs
– Community service hours
– Special groups
• Read local news
• Review job listings, select ones you want and save them to your Job log.
• Find events, save them to your event log, SMS events to friends to arrange meetings. View
friend responses.
• Find community service hours and track them.
• Need health care services? – find doctors, and free services in private.
• Check you personal page, My Page. This contains your event, job, and community service
logs – everything you saved.
• Set default settings – create a profile, set up topics you want to read, order topics, add new
groups to your list, update your content.
• Administer a secure group – create a user group: define users, password, post news to the
group. For example, provide all school communication through the group.
22. Competition
• Other rss readers – but you have to find the
content
• Community Websites – but many do not have
a mobile solution.
23. Objectives
• Develop KineKt over the next 3 months - introduce it to
the Oakland community.
• Broaden the content offering.
• Include specific user groups.
• Develop new versions for other communities.
• Promote KineKt through schools, after school clubs,
youth development programs.
• Connect with community resources that are content
providers for KineKt.
• use a platform with search capabilities on the back end
to filter the content and make it useful.
