SCAN serves individuals and communities through Public Access TV, media communication, production education, training, and skilled professional support. SCAN informs and gives voice to free expression of diverse ideas providing an open forum for discussion as it supports communities and builds awareness about community needs.  SCAN promotes media literacy, media justice, and community dialogue as an alternative to corporate media. It also provides equipment and training through classroom education and workshops, hands on learning of television production, skilled professional support, program promotion and production facilitation as a community resource to help individuals and organizations create and distribute their programming. SCAN’s Youth Media Program offers technical training, media literacy, video media arts, and production to promote critical thinking for youth ages 11 – 19.