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United Nation's Association of Canada's Sport in a Box Water Workshop
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At the Multicultural Youth Centre on Friday, October 10th from 5-7PM, we are going to have a Sport in a Box workshop for teens. It will be a chance to learn about the Millenium Development Goals while participating in sport activities and fun exercises.

The Thunder Bay Indian Friendship Centre is going to facilitate and any youth in Thunder Bay are invited to attend and supper will be provided.

In hopes that we can keep doing these workshops, we are going to try to track when the youth centre is most busy and continue having the gatherings on those nights.

Anyone interested can call the Multicultural Youth Centre.

September 27, 2008 | 7:58 PM Comments  0 comments

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Creating Local Connections Thunder Bay Project Page blog #3
Related to this project: Creating Local Connections Canada/Liaisons locales Canada

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This week I have attended meetings with youth to discuss youth engagement in Thunder Bay and the possibilities for action-oriented projects.

I have been in communication with the Independent Living Resource Centre and he likes the idea of TIG training. Youthscape has also expressed interest in TIG training.

The event I will be attending this month is tomorrow at Fort William First Nation. It is put on by Gitchi Gami (a grassroots environmental group). They were involved in the last climate change workshop we had.

I have a bite from a Westgate high school teacher for workshops and his world issues class will invite me in when they are doing the climate change unit. There are two teachers at Churchill High School who have been identified as socially-minded, so I will contact them next week.

September 20, 2008 | 7:04 PM Comments  0 comments

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Pathways: Knowledge Mobiolization Meeting - Young Adult Involvement Tasks
Related to this project: Knowledge Translation

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Pathways Meeting - Young Adult Involvement Team Tasks

1. Review Workplan for Young Adult involvement: what needs to be done in next while (resources!)

2. Youth Recruitment Process: materials, activity /task /project team descriptions (realize!)

3. Toronto focus groups/interviews (recruitment!)

4. Logo and website development (reach out!)

September 14, 2008 | 9:20 AM Comments  0 comments

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Town Youth Participation Strategies Youth Board Meeting
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If interested Canadian youth are searching for a youth voice around youth centres, be a part of the TYPS youth board. Check out www.typs.com for more information. There is also a project page www.projects.takingitglobal.org/typs where you can find detailed information about the youth board.

We are now responsible for compiling the newsletter which goes out to member organizations and youth centres across Canada.

If youth were to have access to documents around policy and procedure, would it turn them off? I am wondering how to involve young people who have and haven't been to the annual conference with the goal of combining youth centre efforts to find common national projects which could mean exhange ideas and information on a wide scale of topics to a large spectrum of youth.

Youth centres are becoming more specialized and sometimes there are 3-4 projects happening at any given time. Youth will step up to the challenge and progress towards compatible resources.

September 9, 2008 | 9:11 PM Comments  0 comments

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Creating Local Connections - Blog #1
Related to this project: Creating Local Connections Canada/Liaisons locales Canada

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This is my first update from Thunder Bay.

I have begun work planning my first climate change workshops. I'm looking at two high schools, the first with a world issues class and the second with an environmental group/outdoors club. At both schools, there are people interested in helping as co-facilitators.

I am also in contact with the Thunder Bay Public library about using the space for social networking workshops in December.

Yesterday I met the Outreach Coordinator from the Indepependent Living Resource Centre and they are interested in TIG training.

I'm really looking forward to this year, year three, and meeting you!

September 7, 2008 | 5:31 PM Comments  0 comments

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Youthscape Project Led Youth Grant Feminexus and The Nexus
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The contract for my project, Feminexus is going to go through with funding for the first few months with the possibility of renewal for up to two years. I am going to find partners and volunteers to assist in creating an art/entrepreneurship project in one or two of the Thunder Bay high schools. The reporting period is coming up fast, so it will be a lot of work to get things going right off the bat, but I am confident that this will help the young women involved.

It is exciting that the funding has been approved by the committee and the moneys may go through a personal bank account for the project which gives the youth more control over the money. More young women shall impact how the project will look, who will be involved, and what topics to be covered. I look forward to this partnership between the Multicultural Youth Centre and Youthscape, and it should create focus on action to Thunder Bay in areas that we have already been working.

September 5, 2008 | 2:52 PM Comments  0 comments



Photovoice, Youth Volunteer Crew - Youthscape LEGO selection committee
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We had discussions with the potential projects funding by the Youthscape. It went really well. The photovoice project is ready to go and it will engage youth from First Nations communities across Northwestern Ontario by empowering them to take pictures of things that stick out in the community, both positive and negative. These will then be brought back to their community in the hopes that people will be aware of what Thunder Bay is like and prepared to orient themselves to the City.

The youth volunteer crew is going to reevaluate what to achieve in their workshops and come back to us with some more great ideas.

My project, the Feminexus for female high school students to become more involved in addressing situations that face them when making the transition to high school, is undergoing a few proposal changes for funding to be confirmed too. I don't want to put too much time into this project, but feel that other youth council members can begin to take it on as a project of their own.

I have also spoken this week with Pathways project that is going to need a workplan. I have a discussion with the Centre of Excellence next week hopefully to confirm things and make sure that I am ready to start working on this.

I have already began scheduling tasks for my second year of Youth Engagement Coordinator in Thunder Bay. I am going to begin with three climate change workshops in the schools over the next three months. There is a lot to achieve this year and I feel prepared to get started. We have our training in late September and until then will be working to get contacts with schools and community to be ready to start engaging youth. I have so many goals this year, I better write them down!