MISSION
'Giving the Youth a Voice'
Using media & technology to empower, while providing jobs & solutions for youth.
Talk Up Yout is a unique suite of multi-media platforms that gives Jamaican ‘yout’ (dialect for “youth”) a voice, focuses exclusively on issues affecting young people and are produced and driven by young people. Founder, Executive Producer and Chief Advocate Emprezz Mullings-Golding launched Talk Up Yout in 2010 with a weekly TV programme where young guests share experiences, discuss challenges and find solutions to a wide range of issues.
The show’s ground-breaking approach came against the backdrop of a society in which young people continue to be an underestimated and untapped demographic. Their issues are chalked up to the “Generation Gap” and left to fester. Youth participation in decision-making at local and national levels is limited and not well coordinated. The media landscape is dotted with few opportunities for young people to be heard.
It is this phenomena that gave birth to the idea of Talk Up Yout, a simple and clear instruction: talk up youth, let your voices be heard, we want to know how you feel. Executive Producers Nadia Stanley and Emprezz Golding had a vision of how remarkable it would be to share the stories of youths around the country on various media platforms. Stories of pain, disease, violence and despair. Stories of hope, love, success and triumph.
Nine years after its debut, Talk Up Yout has become a household name right across the island that is now synonymous with youth upliftment and empowerment.
Our projects and services include:
TV SHOW, RADIO SHOW, SCHOOL TOURS, NATIONAL ADVOCACY PROGRAMME, SOCIAL GOOD PROJECTS, OUTREACH, YOUTH-LED MEDIA SERVICES AND RESEARCH.
The show’s ground-breaking approach came against the backdrop of a society in which young people continue to be an underestimated and untapped demographic. Their issues are chalked up to the “Generation Gap” and left to fester. Youth participation in decision-making at local and national levels is limited and not well coordinated. The media landscape is dotted with few opportunities for young people to be heard.
It is this phenomena that gave birth to the idea of Talk Up Yout, a simple and clear instruction: talk up youth, let your voices be heard, we want to know how you feel. Executive Producers Nadia Stanley and Emprezz Golding had a vision of how remarkable it would be to share the stories of youths around the country on various media platforms. Stories of pain, disease, violence and despair. Stories of hope, love, success and triumph.
Nine years after its debut, Talk Up Yout has become a household name right across the island that is now synonymous with youth upliftment and empowerment.
Our projects and services include:
TV SHOW, RADIO SHOW, SCHOOL TOURS, NATIONAL ADVOCACY PROGRAMME, SOCIAL GOOD PROJECTS, OUTREACH, YOUTH-LED MEDIA SERVICES AND RESEARCH.
