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Young Decision Makers' Meeting

I attended the first Student's Commission/Centre of Excellence Young Decision Makers meeting last month from Nov. 30 - Dec.1 in Deerhurst. I've uploaded the full report from the meeting onto the Ontario documents page and I thought I'd summarize some of my notes/perspectives.

I will use the Student's Commission's model to describe how the goal of a National youth council will be achieved. TakingITGlobal has also produced a report about National Youth Councils that highlights the importance of collaborations. First, there are initiators (how to attract youth), then sustainers (keep 'em), and impacts (results). For each there is self, social, and system areas to explore.

For initiators regarding the self,
- problem solving/sharing ideas
- youth empowerment
For initiators regarding social benefits,
- National voice and space for youth collaboration
- linking groups
- inform youth of youth rights
- raise awareness of youth issues
- link w/media
For system changing initiators,
- platform for youth and people in power
- create direct link to politicians/gov't - both ways communication
- obtain funding for youth initiatives

For sustainers and the self,
- inspire, inform and involve youth
youth voice and input
For social sustainers,
- paid positions/youth consultants
- research
- resources - capacity building for youth
- adult leader/mentors - voted in
- communication system - website
- groups/individual organizations
- forum/conferences/newsletters/campaigns
- coalition - link/connect with agencies/key partners
- action-oriented
For system sustainers,
- structure/budget
- legislated formal process/policies

Impacts on the self,
- linking individuals with already existing organizations - connect youth with groups is the ultimate goal
Impacts on the social,
- head, heart, feet passionate
Impacts on the system
- diverse National Youth Council

There are also challenges, barriers, and negative outcomes, but we kept it pretty positive. One was a lack of time and resources, but with communication tools such as TIG, this could be made easier. Another challenge was engaging a diverse group of people. The question is how do we reach out? We could go to where the people are and use outreach through the media.

The 18 and under group listed the following things in order as most important in designing the council:
Inclusivity
Youth-led
Participator
Young-Adult Support
Adult Partnerships
Representative
Informal Structure

The 18 and up groups werre similar:
Inclusivity
Youth-led
Participatory
Representative
Adult Partnerships
Young-adults support
Informal Structure

The model that was suggested was having a provincial section and City Council section for each area, and then involving organizations, community centres and schools. The adult ally would be elected in every level.

Also, there will be collaborations with the Student's Commission as they put together their new website. In his workshop, he asked why online? easy direct access, archives, the power of anonymity. The Student's Commission will build the mailing list and committee. TIG can have connectios. The important thing is to not compete, but combine with cross-eye traffic, cross eye posting and moderators would be helpful for theirs but they currently haven't discussed it.

The things that I learned!

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