TIGblogs TIG | TIGblogs GROUP TIGBLOGS LOGIN SIGNUP
Pauline's Blog
Pauline's Blog
« previous 7


Youthscape
Translations available in: English (original) | French | Spanish | Italian | German | Portuguese | Swedish | Russian | Dutch | Arabic

Today MYC met with a selection committee for allocating funds through Youthscape in Thunder Bay. Here are my notes from the meeting:

Guideposts: Build youth communities through youth engagment:
1. Youth leadership
2. Learning community
3. Diversity
4. Accountability
5. Strength-based
6. Systems change
(Be the change you wish to see in the world)

Levels of decision-making: Underengaged to capacity building
1. Inform
2. Consult
3. Involve
4. Collaborate/partnership
5. Empower

Goals (our role will be decided by us)
- create track record
- selection
- accountability (monitoring)
- mentor/allies
- celebrate
- champion - spokespersons
- education
- share learning
- events

Youth stages in the application process:
1. Idea
2. Planning
3. Selection
4. Implementation
5. Evaluation

LEGO connectors will allocate $90 000 to successful applicants. There will be a meeting to support proposal writing and then we will meet again upon receival to review them.

Who: Youth in Simpson/Ogden, South Core, or Thunder Bay community who are 13-18 or 19-29
Underengaged youth target projects have priority
Willingness to share - learn is important
Youth... Voice... Spaces... Partnerships... Safety... Creating Change are the criteria categories.

What is success?
Youth impact peers, less engaged and community, organizations

July 15, 2008 | 7:33 PM Comments  0 comments



Youthled Projects Application
Translations available in: English (original) | French | Spanish | Italian | German | Portuguese | Swedish | Russian | Dutch | Arabic

Youth led project grants in Thunder Bay are coming due near the end of the month. Youthscape has allocated funds for young people to produce projects that are youth-led and driven. I'll be on the committee to decide who gets the funding, but I have also written one which I will be declaring conflict of interest for.

The Regional Multicultural Youth Council is collaborating with schools, community organizations, and youth to deliver an initiative that will empower youth to affect positive community change. We will reach out to young people through our project invented and run by youth. Our project will create a positive youth space in the Fort William area. Our youth centre provides young people with a place we can gather, meet, organize, and develop our own initiative. Young people gain comfort from having a common place where we feel welcome to come and can invite our friends and run inclusive programs. We will also work to improve the position of young people in the downtown Fort William neighbourhood so they will be better able to plan for their future and contribute to neighbourhood growth in Thunder Bay.

We will encourage creative partnerships by engaging young people through volunteer work together with other agencies in town and working together with other youth councils. We realize that there is a need for youth councils in the City to work together, so we will open the lines of communication between youth-friendly spaces and create opportunities for all youth to benefit from active engagement in projects that peak our interest and are matched to our skills and abilities. It is through our involvement with many committees working with youth or affecting youth that we will promote public awareness and community change. We have identified safety as a main concern and realize the importance of addressing safety through a youth perceptive.

Presently, I am developing a facilitator guide for young women at the Youth Centre in hopes that we will get the grant. One catch is that you need to have a charitable number. http://www.youthscape.ca/Communities_Thunder.html

July 13, 2008 | 10:20 AM Comments  0 comments



The Stephen Lewis Foundation's presentation
Related to country: Uganda

Translations available in: English (original) | French | Spanish | Italian | German | Portuguese | Swedish | Russian | Dutch | Arabic

Grassroots is the magazine, and involved is the story of one woman who had travelled to Uganda, South Africa, and Swaziland with the Grandmother's for Africa project. She showed her pictures of the beautiful nature and houses which were built with mud. The women were dressed so beautifully and sang in perfect harmony.

These women are left with the overwhelming responsibility to care for grandchildren because the adult population is dying of AIDS. Nearly the population of Canada has died of AIDS.

The work that the Stephen Lewis Foundation is doing there is amazing! They travel in vans in Uganda with two nurses, a counsellor, and an someone living with AIDS to reduce the stigma, deliver medications, and talk to people affected by HIV/AIDS.

I'm interested in the fundraising projects that the Stephen Lewis Foundation is doing and I can't wait for the international conference and youth component the project is planning. If we can get young people involved and aware of the impact of HIV/AIDS, we will be respecting the grandmothers who have so much strength.

July 11, 2008 | 9:51 AM Comments  0 comments



Status of Women
Translations available in: English (original) | French | Spanish | Italian | German | Portuguese | Swedish | Russian | Dutch | Arabic

I've been working on and finally finished the Status of Women proposal. My job as Youth Engagement Coordinator for Creating Local Connections this year is coming to an end, and I've been asked to stay at the Multicultural Youth Centre as Fundraiser, much like last year.

This year I've been working for a month and have mostly been busy with tying up loose ends from projects that were ending and looking toward the future. There are many young women who could benefit from the project we're applying to do and the interest was huge when we first started Revolution Girl Style in 1998. I think we should find a way to make it happen with other sources of funding because it is so important for young women to have spaces to gather and grow.

I think now it's time to put my energy into the Youthscape funding that is beginning with the new staff hire that is happening right now. They are going to accept applications for youth projects and our youth council will apply since we already do great work and would love to continue it. I've been working on a short proposal so now I will gather input for additional items.

June 29, 2008 | 4:23 PM Comments  1 comments

Tags:


Strength-Based Youth Forum

On November 22nd the Centre of Excellence has made a committee in Thunder Bay is putting on a strength-based forum to find out what is being done and can be done regarding youth and mental health. We are then having entertainment which is a play called mindframes written by young people who are affected by mental ill health. It is part of the two-day conference for professionals, allies, youth, and parents.

October 5, 2007 | 12:48 PM Comments  0 comments

Tags:


T-Bay and TIG
Related to country: Canada


I just got back from an inspiring day at Minnesota Park in Thunder Bay for a BBQ. I am excited to start working as a Youth Engagement Coordinator in Thunder Bay next month and had a great opportunity to spread some ideas today at this event.

The YouthScape project that is a partner or TIG has hired on a new staff who is eager to share her ideas on the new website we are going to be working on. We were excited to speak to each other as the woman she is taking over for and I have worked together many times before and shared many talents. It was great to get involved with the Action for Neighbourhood Change Office sponsored by the United Way and I will love to become more active, the way it's going.

The head staff at the Boys and Girls club is also very excited about partnerships that are arising in internet and technology especially. They just got four new computers so now they have many at their site. He is someone that we have worked very closely with too, programming jointly. He does really good work for the youth in the community and they are growing and expanding.

The Multicultural Youth Centre where I'm working out of is in a good position to grow and we have grown rapidly in the past year alone. There's a real pull to the internet too among everyone and it's time and we are ready in the Bay to get exposed on the net.

September 8, 2007 | 5:41 PM Comments  0 comments

Tags:


Health Engaging Youth
Related to country: Canada


We had our meeting last night for Health Engaging Youth, as we do every week. We had a different energy yesterday though. It's growing each time and is a fairly new project that will continue hopefully for a long time. The New Mentality is a project sponsored by Children's Mental Health Ontario. It's amazing that there are groups starting up all around Ontario to create a youth-driven network, anti-stigma activities, and youth participation in the health system. We are becoming a strong local connection for mental health issues and body-mind solutions with youth. Our conference is being planned for late October and we are having a good time planning it. There are about eight of us at each meeting and we're run out of the Multicultural Youth Centre. I'm hoping that there will be even bigger events to reach more of Thunder Bay after our conference at a local Native high school with 75 young people. We have already hosted a successful coffee night with local youth talent at our centre. It generated interest in the project and I think everyone involved is so interesting. Even if I go to the meeting tired, I gain energy from our outpouring and brainstorming of ideas and planning. I am excited for the future of the project and while we are planning to release our presentation in June 08 at the conference in Mississauga, the project must be continued as it is so important.

August 30, 2007 | 9:37 AM Comments  0 comments

Tags:


« previous 7


Pauline's Profile

Pauline's Friends


Latest Posts
United Nation's...
Creating Local...
Pathways: Knowledge...
Town Youth...
Creating Local...

Monthly Archive
August 2007
September 2007
October 2007
November 2007
December 2007
January 2008
May 2008
June 2008
July 2008
August 2008
September 2008

Change Language


Tags Archive
arts conference engagement entrepreneurship funding gala gender hiv/aids icts media stephenlewisfoundation technology women youth youthcentres youthscape zuzanakonecna.webnode.cz

Filter By Type
Travel
Topics

Friends
@k!0
A.b
Aarluk
Adam MacIsaac
Adolfo BESERRA rocha
alice sabourin
allen kelly auksaq
Allison McLean
Amanda
Amber
Andrei*
Andrew Brown
Ashley
Aurora Herrera
Ayodeji Thomas Adewunmi
Belal jahjooh
Beth
Bob
Bry Katz
Cassandra
Catherine Dyer
Charles