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Apr 16th, 2008 - 13:58:55 | Jenny
feedHey Fellow CLC'ers!
I hope that you are all enjoying the new Spring season! During the past month, headway has been made regarding a host organization for next year's new NS YEC. Hopefully this relationship will be confirmed before the new YEC starts, and he/she will be be provided the necessary support and resources from the host organization. So that is good news!
The month of April is quite packed with workshops! I have begun a Change That Clicks (CTC) workshop series with the Boys and Girls Club at Spryfield, located just outside of Halifax. The BGCC there has been incredibly welcoming to the CTC program, and the staff as well as the girls and boys themselves, are fantastic. Toward the end of the month, I will be co-presenting 2-4 Climate Change workshops with the Environmental Officer at St. FX University, to high school students. Speaking of high school students, it is heartening to be hearing back from high schools in response to the Introduction-to-TIG emails I sent out.
I've posted a couple docs for anyone interested in using them- one is a Powerpoint I used for my initial meeting with the BGCC, telling them about CTC. Another is the email I sent to the high school guidance counsellors.
Take care everyone and best of luck with your TIG work,
Jenny
Apr 15th, 2008 - 12:55:24 | Kyle Simunovic
Friday was an excellent meeting with the Online Community Connectors. I am ever impressed with this dedicated group. It was an honest and open dialogue about where we can better ourselves and our contributions to the CLC program. I am excited by some of the tools that are now at our disposal. I can wait to see the results!
Apr 10th, 2008 - 16:00:04 | Mai
Youth Leadership
Youth make up 50% of the world's population - so why shouldn't we have a place in this world? Why shouldn't we be leaders? You don't need to be a motivational speaker, a loud personality, or good looking. You simply need to be. Motivated.
Here are three workshops I attended which prove that youth are taking the steps to inspire, inform and involve themselves in their communities today.
March 28 - Canadian Association for Community Living
Workshop: Poverty and Intellectual Disability
1 in 5 people living in poverty have a disability. We aim to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, including reducing poverty. This cannot be achieved if we compartmentalize and segregate People Living with Disabilities as a separate entity. The creation of policies, strategies, and initiatives should include PWDs, as poverty and disability are undeniably correlated.
March 29 - Town Youth Partnerships Strategy
Workshop: ICTs for social change
Information, Communication and Technology can be used for social change. Youth spend on average 8 hours on the internet. At TYPS conference, over 200 youth from across Canada who participated, worked or ran youth centers came to St. George, ON. Their energy that youth were indeed involved and active in their communities was exciting. Representatives from Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario, Saskatchewan, BC and Nunavut were present.
April 9 - Project MADE
Networking and Capacity Building
Youth leadership - 7 youth came to the TIG office to learn more about TIG and CLC, and how partnerships and collaborations could happen to strengthen youth leadership within two communities: Toronto and Accra, Ghana. Muneeb and Aurora presented awesomely and we are excited for the May 8 TIG training session at the head office!
Apr 8th, 2008 - 19:32:42 | Staci Kentish
Hey gang!
I thought I'd share a little bit about my experience running the Change That Clicks program as a March Break 5-day program here in Timmins.
I'll start by saying that the program was a lot of fun and ended up being really successful. We had a great time with the kids and saw a lot of positive results.
We targeted kids aged 9-11, mostly because I thought it would be great to involve the younger age group in one of our TIG initiatives. We got a free space in the Timmins Public Libray computer training area and ran the program without the help of a formal partner, such as the Boys and Girls Club, and instead relied on the help of our local network.
Media was a major part of this initiative - we managed to get 2 radio interviews and a tv/internet news story. I detailed this with some useful tips for the media portion of our last CLC meeting and have posted the document under "Media."
We ended up with 9 participants, which was a great size group. For our program we used the Cyber Security, TIG, MDGs, Rights of the Child, Environment and Sports/Music modules and added one of our own, Aboriginal Culture and Understanding. We had to modify our activities quite a bit to meet the needs of our young participants, and so put in a lot more work than we'd planned on, but it paid off in a well-run, successful program. If anyone needs ideas, I can forward my workshop report - it's all in there.
Highlights and recommendations: We created a TIG Project Page for our local program which was really great and fun tool. We were able to post photos, discussion topics, blogs, links, etc. We also ended every day by having participants contribute to a mural and it seemed to be a great closing. If you're going to do an intensive program like ours, I suggest at least 2 people facilitating and give yourself lot of prep time, both before and during your program...it'll just stress you out otherwise. We promoted our program a lot which was really beneficial to us and the local project - try to do this as much as possible. And, most importantly, have fun with it! Hanging out with those kids for a week was a blast - enjoy the ride!
Apr 8th, 2008 - 19:25:51 | Yassir EL OUARZADI
L'ancien vice-président américain et Prix Nobel de la paix a participé dernièrement à deux événements durant son passage à Montréal. En plus de la conférence qu'il a livré devant les lecteurs de La Presse le 4 avril, il a formé 233 conférenciers – présentateurs bénévoles du Projet Climatique Canada et messagers de M. Gore- sur le problème du réchauffement planétaire ou des changements climatiques en général.
En fait, c’était la première séance de formation tenue au Canada à propos du célèbre film «Une vérité qui dérange». Al Gore a déjà répandu son message partout dans le monde, en Espagne, en Inde, au Royaume-Uni et même en Australie.
Yassir El Ouarzadi, étudiant en sciences de la santé au cégep « vert » du Québec, a participé avec grand intérêt à cette formation qu’il considère hors du commun.
En effet, cette formation lui a permis d’être outillé de tout ce qu’il faut pour propager la bonne nouvelle : le Canada peut contribuer à sauver la planète et il le fera.
Par ailleurs, Yassir a été heureux de faire partie d’une équipe canadienne enthousiaste et passionnée d’environnement. Mentionnons aussi que les participants canadiens – de diverses professions et différents âges- venaient pour la plupart du Canada mais il y en a certains qui sont venus d’autres pays comme l’Angleterre. Yassir a eu l’opportunité de discuter avec un grand nombre de délégués participants à la formation de M. Gore, il a même eu l’opportunité de discuter avec des leaders en environnement comme Jean Lemire, réalisateur de Mission Antarctique, biologiste et cinéaste célèbre au Québec comme ailleurs dans le monde.
Grâce à cette formation, Yassir, comme 253 autres participants formés par M. Gore à Nashville (États-Unis) et à Montréal, compte faire plusieurs présentations à des milliers de gens dans sa communauté ou même au Maroc, son pays natal à propos des changements climatiques, des solutions au Québec, au Canada et dans le monde en général ainsi que des gestes concrets qui peuvent être posés par tout individu soucieux de la planète où il vit et où vivront ses futurs enfants.
Restez branchés ! Yassir pourra faire une présentation près de chez vous à Montréal.
Yassir El Ouarzadi
Creating Local Connections Canada/ Liaisons Locales Canada
http://projects.takingITglobal.org/clccanada
Montreal Youth Engagement Coordinator
Coordinateur de l'Engagement des Jeunes de Montréal
montreal@clc.takingitglobal.org
http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/yassirovich
TakingITGlobal
http://www.takingITglobal.org/
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