YOUTH ENGAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP - An Overview from the CIF Impact Report

YOUTH ENGAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP An Overview from the CIF Impact Report YOUTH ENGAGEMENT COMMUNITIES BUILDING & LEADERSHIP YOUTH FUTURES (CBYF) CBYF leadership teams acknowledge that youth are the ultimate subject matter experts. [...] INITIATIVES ADDRESSING YOUTH ENGAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP Youth Pathways to Leadership Youth Action Society Whitehorse, YK Grande Prairie, AB The Yukon team reached out to rural communities Youth leaders designed micro-grants to support in Yukon to support youth leadership and build education or employment for local young people. [...] To remedy the problem, youth Youth leaders provided fun and educational online reached out to local services and created a video programming for other young people during documentary that included information about each the pandemic restrictions while teaching about service and how to access them budgeting, job-searching, mental health care, etc. [...] Despite these significantly challenging conditions, youth leaders in Digby were able to 3 75 youth in rural Yukon had the opportunity to bring together 60 young people for fun and directly influence the territory’s Youth Strategy by informative social time online. [...] 7 Youth leaders in Sudbury and Prince Albert 4 Almost 60% of CIF project leaders who shared how significantly their projects engaged with local systems wrote about how the increased not only their access to services experience profoundly increased youth leaders’ but their confidence in interacting with service confidence and understanding of their own providers and other community leaders.