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maskormenace2020-04-25 02:06 pm
helpdesk_hero) wrote in maskormenace2020-04-25 02:06 pm
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[Well, here he is, in a nice suit and trying not to look too stuffy. But come on, he's offering a professional thing here, and David wants to be taken seriously in a professional manner. Especially because he's not sure how this is going to go. But at least the man doesn't look nervous. Maybe? Okay, so maybe his fingers are twiddling a little at the bottom of the video, but David's trying, alright?]
Good afternoon fellow imPorts. I'm reaching out today because I want to bring forth an Initiative I'd like to begin, and am testing the waters for interest and potential external support, as well as other organizations of like mind perhaps worked with by imPorts that could assist me in my ends. Which in this case is a matter to concern imPorts who are classified by the government as 'Minors'.
Those of us who have been around since the situation with Jeopardy and all of the issues leading up to it may remember that there were movements to coordinate imPort efforts to battle against dimensional rifts and their affects. Those coordinated efforts involved not only government affiliated imPort teams, but other teams, as well as volunteers. But the glaring flaw with much of the situation was the way which imPorts who were minors at the time were basically told that they should not be involved in any official manner.
I can understand this on a governmental level. They don't wish to be responsible for the injuries done to what they see as children.
At that time I worked with a handful of these 'minors' to divert them to problem areas and make sure they had teammates to watch their backs, even temporarily. And I quickly saw one thing. No matter what the government deems as an 'appropriate' age to be involved in this, those of us with powers, we tend to get involved whether it's smart or not. I was a teen hero, and many of my friends here from home were as well. Many times we were told by adults not to get involved, and we did anyway. We lost friends, we got hurt, some of us got maimed and were forced to live with that.
We never had enough support. We never had enough training. And we were rarely taken seriously or seen as what we were by adults: teens who were going to get involved whether anyone liked it or not.
To that end I would like to propose this. There are young imPorts who will want to get involved no matter what anyone says. I seek to ensure that they don't do this alone, which puts them at greater risk. I would like to start an Initiative, though I admit I've no name yet, which supports our younger imPort brothers and sisters. This will be in multiple means. First and foremost, increased financial stipends for youths so they can take care of themselves better, as well as helping them plan out to use their funds if they wish for that. Secondly, access to better advisors for future career paths and educational support. I'm formerly a tutor here and would be happy to provide educational help, and have asked a few other individuals I know in education to help as well.
Finally and perhaps most importantly, I hope to provide training and support structures for those young imPorts who intend to go out into trouble whether adults think they should or not. This includes mentorship from former teen heroes who know how to face some of the pain, trauma, and stress a double life entails, training in self-defense as well as helping people get more minute control of active powers, and helping those that are going to go out anyway get protective gear as well as at least one, if not two or more people to have their back when they're working imPort business. The long term goal would be to associate with adult imPort teams with a secondary mentorship program those those young imPorts who would aspire to working with adult teams in the future.
So I suppose my question to young imPorts is whether you'd be interested in any of the fields of help I'd seek to arrange. To other imPorts, my question is whether you'd be willing and or able to provide financial or other means of support. And to people who have been here longer, are there other organizations with an interest in helping young imPorts that I could talk to for creating the core support network, providing a spread of support and services to make sure our youngest members have what they need.
[Okay, the formal stuff is done, and David seems to relax a little and gives a slightly goofy smile. Because wow, he just sounded like an adult X-Man speech there. Someone please tell him he's not full on channeling Scott Summers there.]
Basically, the to long, didn't listen version?
I want to help young imPorts get more financial, educational, and combat training support, and possibly help act as an adult mentor to one or more young imPort 'teenaged' teams. Looking for teens and younger that want help, people to add themselves as financial or supply providers, and definitely someone to tell me if there is some other groups out there that already do some of this that I can work with to take some organizational load off my shoulders.
[Okay, that... that's everything, right? Now he doesn't look so sure.]
Uh, I'll entertain all questions, comments, and concerns now.
Good afternoon fellow imPorts. I'm reaching out today because I want to bring forth an Initiative I'd like to begin, and am testing the waters for interest and potential external support, as well as other organizations of like mind perhaps worked with by imPorts that could assist me in my ends. Which in this case is a matter to concern imPorts who are classified by the government as 'Minors'.
Those of us who have been around since the situation with Jeopardy and all of the issues leading up to it may remember that there were movements to coordinate imPort efforts to battle against dimensional rifts and their affects. Those coordinated efforts involved not only government affiliated imPort teams, but other teams, as well as volunteers. But the glaring flaw with much of the situation was the way which imPorts who were minors at the time were basically told that they should not be involved in any official manner.
I can understand this on a governmental level. They don't wish to be responsible for the injuries done to what they see as children.
At that time I worked with a handful of these 'minors' to divert them to problem areas and make sure they had teammates to watch their backs, even temporarily. And I quickly saw one thing. No matter what the government deems as an 'appropriate' age to be involved in this, those of us with powers, we tend to get involved whether it's smart or not. I was a teen hero, and many of my friends here from home were as well. Many times we were told by adults not to get involved, and we did anyway. We lost friends, we got hurt, some of us got maimed and were forced to live with that.
We never had enough support. We never had enough training. And we were rarely taken seriously or seen as what we were by adults: teens who were going to get involved whether anyone liked it or not.
To that end I would like to propose this. There are young imPorts who will want to get involved no matter what anyone says. I seek to ensure that they don't do this alone, which puts them at greater risk. I would like to start an Initiative, though I admit I've no name yet, which supports our younger imPort brothers and sisters. This will be in multiple means. First and foremost, increased financial stipends for youths so they can take care of themselves better, as well as helping them plan out to use their funds if they wish for that. Secondly, access to better advisors for future career paths and educational support. I'm formerly a tutor here and would be happy to provide educational help, and have asked a few other individuals I know in education to help as well.
Finally and perhaps most importantly, I hope to provide training and support structures for those young imPorts who intend to go out into trouble whether adults think they should or not. This includes mentorship from former teen heroes who know how to face some of the pain, trauma, and stress a double life entails, training in self-defense as well as helping people get more minute control of active powers, and helping those that are going to go out anyway get protective gear as well as at least one, if not two or more people to have their back when they're working imPort business. The long term goal would be to associate with adult imPort teams with a secondary mentorship program those those young imPorts who would aspire to working with adult teams in the future.
So I suppose my question to young imPorts is whether you'd be interested in any of the fields of help I'd seek to arrange. To other imPorts, my question is whether you'd be willing and or able to provide financial or other means of support. And to people who have been here longer, are there other organizations with an interest in helping young imPorts that I could talk to for creating the core support network, providing a spread of support and services to make sure our youngest members have what they need.
[Okay, the formal stuff is done, and David seems to relax a little and gives a slightly goofy smile. Because wow, he just sounded like an adult X-Man speech there. Someone please tell him he's not full on channeling Scott Summers there.]
Basically, the to long, didn't listen version?
I want to help young imPorts get more financial, educational, and combat training support, and possibly help act as an adult mentor to one or more young imPort 'teenaged' teams. Looking for teens and younger that want help, people to add themselves as financial or supply providers, and definitely someone to tell me if there is some other groups out there that already do some of this that I can work with to take some organizational load off my shoulders.
[Okay, that... that's everything, right? Now he doesn't look so sure.]
Uh, I'll entertain all questions, comments, and concerns now.