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Rotaract - George Jeffrey's Children Foundation - Thunder Bay Community BINGO
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At the Rotaract meeting tonight, we planned to do many things to get going on the cycle campaign for one past street youth who is making a difference by fundraising for the new George Jeffrey's Children's Foundation for disabled children. We are also fundraising for a playground facility for the new centre. Our meeting was at the old centre and that area is all undergoing construction. There is a new Addictions treatment centre being built as well as a new long-term care hospital.

Other things we talked about were the Valentine's Day gala fundraiser which will be the biggest one next year. It will be $175 for a couple and they will get a package deal with the party.

Also, the CLE fundraiser was a success. We raised $1900 and they invited us back to do more. We are going to put some books in glass at the St. James school library where the money is going. And put the kids reading books into the newspaper in Thunder Bay.






August 25, 2008 | 8:41 PM Comments  0 comments



Pathways and TIG
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My TIG Youth Engagement Coordinator position is being renewed this year. I will be working on climate change workshops for September to December, Social Networking for Social change workshops for January to March, and then April I get to choose a workshop topic. I will also be attending an event a month for networking, blogging on the Creating Local Connections project page weekly and doing three training sessions. I'll be working on CLC until April.

I will also be working for the Pathways project as youth team leader. This is a project where I will be involved in coordinating a youth team to be engaged in mental health research about depression and anxiety treatment options. This program is out of York University and will be working at Brock, University of Manitoba, Brandon University, McMaster, and York. There will be focus groups with young adults ages 18-25 to determine how they would like to receive treatment, who they would like to receive it from, and where they would like to get it.

It's going to be a busy year but I'm looking forward to it. I am going to set some priorities for my work and make sure I follow through on everything I am planning to do and develop my ideas by working with others and learning about the place of my projects in the world.

August 21, 2008 | 11:33 AM Comments  0 comments

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Child and Youth Advocate
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Irwin came for a visit last night to discuss the possibility of having a Child and Youth Advocate office in the North. We discussed having one in Thunder Bay in conjunction with the Multicultural Youth Centre in a space in Victoriaville Mall.

Down the road, we are also looking at one in Sioux Lookout and Kenora.

We also discussed the way that the Child and Youth Advocate Office will be run. Irwin wanted suggestions about the two options that the organization could have. One is to hire a worker in Thunder Bay and that would be grassroots and community based. The other option is to go to Toronto for guidance and get help running the Thunder Bay office from Toronto.

If we get a Thunder Bay office, I think it would help get Aboriginal youth involved in the process of decision making and Irwin suggested we get our message to the urban centres who will be funding us and making the decisions.

August 20, 2008 | 10:26 AM Comments  0 comments

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Multicultural Youth Centre
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Intercity hosted a volunteer booth fair with the Summer student government office. We had a booth and had youth fill out the Student's Commission's children's rights surveys.

The Youthscape LEGO grant selection committee is busy evaluating the allocation of funds for the next year. This new project is going to be a success because all applications were well received and there is a film, environmental project, photovoice, volunteerism project, and more.

The leadership team meeting was great this week and we made some progress in the community partnerships area. This project is going to be successful because there is not a research-driven mental health project like it yet that involves the community in an active way.

I've been busy working on the summer budget for Youthscape and getting the funds allocated to the proper areas for the next 3-4 months. The bookkeeper is looking at the budget for me and the Executive Director will look at it too when he gets back.

August 16, 2008 | 8:44 PM Comments  1 comments

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Canadian Lakehead Exhibition - Rotaract Fundraiser and Kid's World
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Last weekend was a busy time in Thunder Bay. It was the fair and the youth centre was involved in the kids' area again this year. We were getting youth to fill out surveys about children's rights and volunteer registration forms to participate in our programming. I think the younger kids enjoyed themselves too when they were making crafts, drawing, and adding their future career wishes and hand prints to our tree of the future.

The Rotaract fundraiser during the day helped us raise almost $2000 for the St. James School library. In the future, the youth centre should do the vehicle parking fundraiser too.

August 12, 2008 | 8:07 PM Comments  0 comments

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LEGO grant selection committee meeting - Youthscape
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Terms of Reference

* Role of Committee Members
- Skills and abilities will be matched to working role so if someone is good at something, it will be encouraged that they pursue it.
- Under youth mentor/adult ally – we shall showcase people who are successful and encourage people who have great ideas

* Code of Conduct
- Express our opinions and ideas
- Not persuade a young person into doing something you want them to do

What will success look like?
- Youth led, set the bar for youth-led initiatives and be a model for youth engagement
- Empower youth and build capacity
- Target underserviced youth
- Evaluation and tract record of the impact made
- Youth/Adult partnerships
- More young people engaged/Community enhancement
- Successful applicants go on to be mentors for other youth
- Meet goals, learning, participation from youth
- Youth doing what they interests them
- Natural inclusion process of youth from adult allies in organizations, decision making processes, and systems
- Youth gain the skills to voice their opinions about how youth should be included
- Youth more connected to other youth efforts and groups
- Reinforcing youth involved in projects that affect their well-being
- Youth more aware of how to make impact and take action in their community
- Effect the community in a positive way
- Encourage more youth to do what they enjoy doing
- Have a fundraising committee in the City to showcase all of the projects to solicit support from City of Thunder Bay to have young people ask for grant making clubs that have one grant per year

Principle/Priority
- Funder’s forum
- Conference for awareness about the funding
- If we have youth to practice their proposal writing skills to help them learn how to write large-scale funding grant applications
- Quick action grants idea for small things that are low-organizational
- Meet again a few times in the next little while to clarify what amount of funding we will give to whom.

Selection
- We don’t want to pick apart the ideas to the point where youth lose their enthusiasm
- We want the end product to be a true reflection of the funder and the youth who are going through the struggles and challenges that they are speaking out against
- Are we engaging a diverse group?
- How are we going to give feedback to the young people? Send a delegation one on one to work through the issues, meet the person, and get them to expand. This is important for the learning process of the youth too
- Not any of the proposal should be rejected completely and we could help them to get to where they need to be suggested Renee.
- Sandra has hopes for the evaluation to pick the pieces out that were positive and every project has potential in line with Youthscape perceptive