Jessie Lee Langille
Alberta Youth Engagement Coordinator, 2007-2008
Having spent the majority of her life in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Jessie-Lee is currently working towards her Master's degree in Health Promotion at the University of Alberta. Through her community involvement with local hospitals, Children's Services, and day camps, Jessie-Lee developed a passion for health and recreation, particularly among children and youth. As a result, she joined the CLC team in September 2007 as an opportunity to gain some practical experience not only working with youth but also coordinating youth-related activities.
In her role as CLC's Alberta Youth Engagement Coordinator, Jessie-Lee set up meetings with various organizations to see how mutually-supportive relationships can be built. Upon discovering that Alberta's Youth VOLUNTEER! (AYV) was interested in facilitating high school presentations and workshops, which was also a priority for CLC, Jessie-Lee worked closely with AYV and, using elements from the TakingITGlobal Guides to Action, developed together a resource and presentation outline that provided direction on how to facilitate workshops. Jessie-Lee noted that collaborating on this project solidified her relationship with AYV: "Working with Alberta's Youth VOLUNTEER! really was an amazing opportunity… When you're working closely with someone else, it's just so much easier to develop something together and to build ideas off of each other and to learn [from each] other."
Media Footprints
Timmins youth lend helping hand; Weekend workshop focuses on assisting those in Attawapiskat
Timmins Daily Press - March 3, 2008
Youth in Timmins are offering a helping hand to youth in Attawapiskat.
Students from at least two Timmins high schools say they want to organize a grassroots letter-writing campaign in hopes of shaming the federal government into keeping its promise to build an elementary school in Attawapiskat.
[ full story ]Online networking for social good A global approach
Centre for Health Promotion Studies News, University of Alberta - January 31, 2008
Which online social networking website has nearly 200,000 members in over 200 countries and more than 40 million hits a month? Facebook? Friendster? MySpace? The answer is tigweb.org, an up-and-coming site focused on inspiring, informing, and involving youth for social good.
[ full story ]Scott Crawford
Youth Development Manager, The Resource Centre for Youth (Saint John, New Brunswick)
Scott Crawford is the Youth Development Manager at The Resource Centre for Youth (TRC) in Saint John, New Brunswick. TRC began in 1995, offering recreation, self-development, education, employment, and health programming to youth in the community. TRC first became involved with TakingITGlobal through TIG's cross-Canada mapping of youth organizations, and as Scott noted, "The relationship just blossomed from there."
TRC was able to connect to Youth Service America (YSA), who organizes Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) in partnership with organizations from around the world. Currently, TRC is coordinating GYSD efforts in Saint John with 6 different schools and 5 different organizations, including Malaria No More, which is generating a lot of excitement in the city. Scott commented, "We would never have become a lead agency for this event had TIG and TRC not had a relationship… That was a huge [outcome] that has spawned about 10 other new relationships between TRC and other organizations as far as Detroit and a few other cities in the States!"
Testimonials
"That's what we bring to the table: not only our facilitator resource, which a lot of community groups are looking for, but also a methodology through which youth and organizations can learn about these issues, and get connected to an online community, a support network for social change."
Kimia Ghomeshi, CLC National Program Manager
"I definitely see the change in Saint John with the Change that Clicks program. The kids definitely want to do more than just sit around and watch TV, and I think that represents a start to change in the community that way."
Allison McLean, New Brunswick Youth Engagement Coordinator, 2007-2008
"From my perspective, the only way that this program will work is if you have leadership that is sensitive to the needs of those particular communities, and I think [CLC has] done that particularly well… The coordinators are knowledgeable of the community, in touch with youth issues, and relate extremely well to youth."
Eric Burton, National Director, Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada
