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Apr 24th, 2008 - 14:02:02 | Allison McLean
feedSalut tout le monde!
Last week I finished my first series of Change That Clicks with the Saint John Boys & Girls Club. It was a lot of fun and the participation was great! I'm looking forward to starting with a new series this week! Like the last series, this one will also be 9 weeks, bringing the program into mid-June.
Other than Change That Clicks, I'm participating in Global Youth Service Day which will take place this weekend. It is a great program where youth get involved in doing something for the community (either local or global). Here in Saint John, we are raising awareness and funds for Malaria No More. Money donated and raised will go toward life saving nets for Africans in the fight against Malaria.
Well, I guess that's it for now. There's only 2 months left! Hard to believe! Everyone's doing an awsome job!
Apr 20th, 2008 - 16:21:58 | Bob
Hey Guys,
March was a pretty exciting Month. I spent a god part of it preparing for two workshops I rerecently faccilitated with over 45 participants from Youth Politik, an youth capacity and education program run by the City of Vancouver's Youth Outreach Team. For several months the program has been holding weekly workshops and activty sessions meant to educate and engage Vancouver youht on municipal poltcs, community issues, and non-profit organizations. For moths TIG has been a community partne with the program helping to prepare and deliver some of the workshop sessions.
Specifically, I prepared 2 3-hour workshops on how to develop and design community action projects, based on the guide to action
They went really well - the youth seemed pretty pumped developing their own project ideas - even if it was just an excercise for many. The youth broke up into small $issue-based groups and told to develop a possible program to address one of the issues (urban sustainability, housing and homelessness, community violence) that was addressed in earlier Youth Politik sessions. The youth came up with veryu cool project ideas, and some of them are even planning on fleshing them out and implementing them, hopefully drawing on TIG reosurces to do it.
All in all it was a great success, and I am sure TIG will keep working with th Youth Politik program next year.
Apr 18th, 2008 - 18:28:32 | Yassir EL OUARZADI
Hello CLC Crew,
I have just come from the Dawson Community Center in Montreal (Verdun), it took me one hour and a half to be there, but the meeting was exciting and very enriching !!
I met with three of their staff members: Lisa Olmstead, Rachel Levine-Katz (their Intervention Specialist who will be working directly with me) and Heidy Wager, Program Coordinator.
Actually, I introduced TakingITGlobal and CLC Canada to them, they were interested especially by the workshops and the Guides to Action, so we discussed about the workshops since I can facilitate them with participants from 12 to 17 (teeanagers), the workshops will last from 30 minutes to one hour, we established a minimum of 5 or 6 people to do a workshop and a maximum of 20 participants.
The Dawson Community Center possesses many rooms for varied activities: a games room, an arts room, a gym, two kitchens, a multi-purpose room and other rooms for meetings. They have also a tech-room: it contains ten high-tech computers that I will use while doing my workshops on 5 different subjects:
1- Climate Change
2- Change That Clicks
3- MDGs (Millenium Development Goals)
4- HIV / AIDS
5- Children's Rights
After a discussion that lasts about 30 minutes, we came out with important ideas:
I will start doing the workshops from May 2nd, I will have five to seven weeks (Friday from 6-7) to do my wokshops, so I am going to be pretty busy during May :) I gave Rachel some promotional material that she can distribute to the teens who are interested in participating to the workshops, I suggested also to registrate them in the TIG website before the workshops, so they can familiarize themselves a bit with the TIG tools. And, we'll buy snacks for the workshops because it is important to keep the teens motivated and active, so they need something to eat :)
It sounds good ! The meeting was interesting for both TakingITGlobal and Dawson Community Center ! Hourra !!
Yassir
Montreal Youth Engagement Coordinator
TakingITGlobal
Apr 18th, 2008 - 17:03:08 | Dana
Hey CLC Team,
It has been a really busy time as my finals were wrapping up this week.
In March I faciltated two webinars on organizational profiles, which had somewhat of a small attendance but an attendance nonetheless. I think the members benefited from the small size, because of all the questions there are to do with setting up org profiles and such.
Currently I am sending out the West Coast Connector, a monthly newsletter aimed at youth in the west of Canada. I am really excited about using the new tool set-up on the backend and seeing how it comes out looking.
I am going to be contacting highschools in my area to see if they'd be willing to host an open forum. Does anyone have advice on the best way to approach schools?
Things are quickly wrapping up for this year, but I hope to keep my profile and activities on TIG going throughout the summer. Hope your regions are getting as nice as weather as Manitoba is lately.
Apr 17th, 2008 - 18:42:55 | Pauline
Hi it's Pauline from Thunder Bay,
I have been rapidly becoming more busy with my job and it's time to organize my time and prioritize. Over the last while, in the community, many members are getting engaged in adressing distressing issues, and I have been trying to bring the focus back to involvement in capacity building.
An important lesson I learned while attending the Town Youth Participation Strategies conference near Toronto, was in the Student's Commission's Pytor Hodgson's workshop. He did an "us vs them" workshop and spoke about the connectivity of everything involving youth and how to bring about change by seeing everyone involved in youth engagement as "us". To Pytor, there is no "them" but a collective "we" and this is important for anyone to work towards.
Some of the ways you can do this is by catering to the common theme that youth are interested in where you are. For example, if you have many youth with mental health issues, bring in a speaker about depression, or if you have artists, have an artistic expression competition.
To view the media, funders, and institutions as part of the whole picture isn't hard when you're working closely with them a lot, but I needed the refresher in the pressing issue of relating to youth, which I am beginning to find difficult :p not that I'm not a youth, but it's beginning to seem like youth have a lot of new issues that I didn't deal with when I was that age, so it's very different now. In fear of sounding too much like my father, I will stop there.
It's refreshing to attend an interesting workshop with a successful and knowledgable group such as the Student's Commission and I have faith that we will work with more closely together in the future.
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