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Youth Programs

Our Work With Young People

Rodney “DJ Rodski” Toomer works with young people across Mobile in four ways: teaching credit literacy, teaching young people to DJ, reading to elementary school children, and the mentor classes he created.

The four ways

  • Teaching credit literacy
  • Teaching young people to DJ
  • Reading to elementary school children
  • The mentor classes he created

Credit literacy

Credit Literacy Program

Rodney “DJ Rodski” Toomer created the Credit Literacy Program for high school seniors, and ran it as a pilot at four Mobile high schools: John L. Leflore High School, Mattie T. Blount High School, Williamson High School and B.C. Rain High School. Across all four schools, the program finished with a 93% success rate. The certificate presentations in the gallery below are from that pilot. Rodney is a Board Certified Credit Consultant.

The pilot

93%

Success rate across all four schools

  • John L. Leflore High School
  • Mattie T. Blount High School
  • Williamson High School
  • B.C. Rain High School

In photographs

The work, in the rooms where it happens.

Classrooms, a broadcast studio, a gym floor, a neighborhood street — the same four ways of working, shown the way they actually look. Tap any photograph to see it larger.

In the classroom with students
Learning the mixing board
Mentoring session
Mentoring session
With the young men and mentors
Teaching the turntables
With the young men
Treats for the group
In the computer lab
Presenting a Certification of Completion of the Credit Literacy Pilot Program
Mentoring session
Reading with the children
Reading with the children
With the young men
In the computer lab
Community panel
With a young DJ at the setup
Presenting Certifications of Completion of the Credit Literacy Pilot Program in the classroom
In the classroom
In the classroom
Certification of Completion of the Credit Literacy Pilot Program
Teaching in the classroom
Learning the turntables
With students and mentors
Learning the turntables
Marching with the community

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