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Hi there,
It’s been a while since our last newsletter. We hope that your winter has not felt too long and cold! We here at Tamarack are looking forward to the spring and returning sunshine.
For this edition of our quarterly newsletter, we’ve chosen to feature a few of our communities to show the incredible work that is being done. We are very proud to share some of their achievements!
From Tamarack, we will be sharing with you the exciting news of our expanding CBYF network, a past webinar on Youth Well-Being and Resilience in Pandemic Times, and the announcement of our latest Community Innovation Fund call for proposals. Last, but not least, we will also tell you about an upcoming webinar to be held on April 27th, 2022, at 1:00pm EST - Deepening How We Evaluate and Understand Youth Success.
New CBYF Communities
New Building Youth Future Communities
We are very pleased to let you know that this March, we have added 7 new communities to our Communities Building Youth Futures network. These communities are:
We look forward to sharing more about these communities in our next quarterly newsletter!
Community Innovation Fund
Recipients of the Community Innovation Fund 2021/2022
We’re delighted to announce the 2021/22 CBYF Community Innovation Fund recipients! The following Communities Building Youth Future communities will soon be launching their innovation projects: Chilliwack BC, Digby NS, Laval QC, Prince Albert BC, Sudbury ON, Whitehorse YK, Yellowknife NWT, Grande Prairie AB, Kahnawà:ke QC, and Portage la Prairie MB.
As our CBYF communities across Canada continue to implement initiatives and innovation projects to support youth, they regularly catch the attention of the media.
In the featured story below about CBYF Prince Albert in the Prince Albert Herald, you can read about how this community is empowering youth voices by showcasing youth who demonstrate leadership, resilience and commitment to the community.
Grande Prairie has been building youth engagement and leadership through art. Read the blog written by CBYF Grande Prairie’s summer intern, Davina Dawson, that highlights several examples of art-based projects in her community in which local youth engaged through art in order to create a sense of community.
For a deep dive into an innovation led by CBYF Digby, we have included a case study of their Community Innovation Fund project. In this case study we’re examining how this community created a youth-led space to foster connection and support.
We’re proud to share that our CBYF Whitehorse community is having a week-long Yukon Youth Summit from April 19th to 23rd. This virtual event will be a place to connect youth, increase communication, and foster collaboration. Representatives from the Yukon and First Nation governments will be in attendance.
On April 27th at 1:00 pm EST, we will be holding a webinar on Deepening How We Evaluate and Understand Youth Success.
Collective Impact approaches emphasize data and shared measurement to better understand the problem or challenge being tackled by the community. Data can be very helpful to zero in on the problem and priorities. For example, the number of young people graduating from high school provides a picture of young people, the education system, and the community. But there are limitations when we only focus on one data point or even a small set of data points.
We might miss key community factors which do not show up in a data point. Did the young person have access to transportation to get to and from school? Were they bullied at school? Did the family believe that graduating from high school was important? Did the young person have consistent access to secure food and housing? What kinds of positive relationships did the young person have at home, in their community, and at school? This webinar will discuss how data can provide context for a community and deepen our understanding of it. We will also explore how data needs to be supplemented with a deeper understanding of the individuals behind each data point.
Join us for a lively discussion with colleagues from CBYF Whitehorse and CBYF Chilliwack as we explore the question of evaluating and understanding youth success.
We recently held a webinar, Youth Well-Being and Resilience in Pandemic Times, hosted by William Laurie, Eva Oberle, Hasina Samji and Mike Hooker. Youth resilience and well-being are vital to the ability to reach one’s full potential and prevent poverty. This webinar was centred on the personal experience of a youth leader, backed by the exploration of robust, up-to-date data on societalimpacts, and also combined the perspective of a school community.
The webinar explored how to better understand the impacts on youth well-being and resilience in pandemic times, as well as effective strategies for overcoming these challenges.