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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  1 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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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.