Project Description A. What are the primary goals/objectives of your project? a. The Primary goals of Impact Jam 613 (“the project”) is to engage youth in local issues through innovative ways. The objective of this project is to provide youth the opportunity to learn about local civic issues in participatory methods and enable them to develop solutions that can inform policy makers. Furthermore, the project aims to test new methods of engaging youth by providing them the opportunity to network with local leaders while getting compensated for their time. This is particularly important for students who may have to choose between participating in the project and having to work to help them pay their bills. B. How was the need for the project …show more content…
This project engages youth through participatory methods. First, participants get the opportunity to gain knowledge of the selected issues from the experts who work on the issue. The participants also get to visit place around the visit where the issue is particularly more dominant, which allows them to learn about the issue through partaking. C. How does your project respond to the Community Funding priorities in question 18? a. The project responds to a number of the Community Funding priorities. First, individuals of all background are encouraged to participate. There is no fee for participation, and all expenses for the day will be covered, including food and transportation. In addition, the winning team(s) will be awarded cash prizes. b. Secondly, this project will engage post-secondary students in particular. Since a large number of the post-secondary student population in Ottawa comes from outside of the Ottawa region, this project will be an opportunity for students that do not have much knowledge of the City of Ottawa to gain knowledge of some of the issues the city faces. D. Describe the actions you will take to reach out and serve diverse equity …show more content…
Synapcity will facilitate a short workshop on civic engagement at the local level. d. Invest Ottawa will provide us a venue where the project will be hosted. C. How does your project complement other similar or existing services? a. The project will complement other similar services as it encourages youth to participate in local issues. However, since there are not many organizations that specifically work to engage youth in civic issues at the local level through these type of project, the outcomes will serve many organizations and policy maker better understand ways to engage youth. Moreover, the solution that the participants will develop to tackle the selected issues could provide policy makers the opportunity to develop policies that reflect the views of the next generation. Expected Project Outcomes and Evaluation Plan A. OUTCOME How will your project benefit individuals and the community? a. The benefits of this project to the participating individuals is that they will get the chance to learn about local issues from the experts that are working on the issue. Furthermore, this project is particularly beneficial to post-secondary students as it allows them to network with city councillors and leaders. Finally, participants who come up with the best solutions will be awarded cash
How would you use the demographic data pertaining to students and their families to develop a school mission and goals for Harpo Allen Middle School? What additional information might prove to be helpful in the process? • Tailor the school climate and atmosphere around multiculturalism based on the socio-economic environment of the school to help promote pride in the accomplishments of people from different cultures. • Use a staff development day to take teachers into the neighborhoods to visit students in their homes and meet parents face-to-face to let them know that the faculty cares about each student and has his or her best interest in mind.
The main argument is about how income inequality affects everyone and how production is also a disadvantage. Although the San Joaquin Valley produces millions of dollars of produce a year, many people in the valley are living in poverty. In fact Merced is the top fourth county in California with, unemployment, poverty, child poverty, and food insecurity. Part of the reason is that the youth do not have many programs or resources to keep them in school and occupied. Many of them will not graduate high school, and end up incarcertated, and get pregnant in their teen year.
Since our last progress report our group has changed a lot, and many new ideas have formed to make our stimulation more organized and successful. Our goal is to educate people and help them better understand homelessness through a live simulation. During the live simulation want simulate the types of situations, people who experience homelessness encounter. This will help people better understand what its like to be homeless and will put them in the shoes of someone who faces this situation.
In January 2010, I began my career as the Kanawha County 4-H Youth Development Extension Agent. As an Extension Instructor with West Virginia University, I seek a promotion to Assistant Profession with tenure. As an extension instructor, my significant areas for contribution are teaching and service, while I am expected to provide reasonable contribution in the area of research. As per West Virginia University tenure and promotion policy, this service cumulative document is reviewed by external reviewers. I joined extension after working at a variety of different organizations and bring a wealth of experience in nonprofit management, service-learning, environmental training and technical assistance, and micro business development.
After reading, The Other Wes Moore, it intrigued me how so many of our young people are growing up in families where the parent or parents cannot provide a suitable environment that provides fundamental resources. This book talks about two males that could have ended up with the same fate only if there had not been any assistance to guide one of them on a different path. It is evident that our environment is an essential factor in how we adapt and attain the life that we live. With limited resources, our youth has become a statistic of their environments. As these generations continuously extend, minorities have become the target of a huge issue such as teen pregnancy.
A historical example of the use of enforcement and regulation of the poor is vagrancy laws. Emerging in England, vagrancy laws were prominent in 1349 after the Black Death resulted in a significant labour shortage (Esmonde, 2002). Legislation was enacted at this time to protect landowners by ensuring wages remained reasonable, making the refusal of work a criminal offence for the able-bodied, and restricting the solicitation of alms (Esmonde, 2002). According to Esmonde (2002), this was the beginning of criminalizing able-bodied individuals who were unemployed – the 'undeserving ', while providing relief to those unable to work due disability, age, or mobility – the 'deserving '.
If community oriented programs are not becoming more of a priority for the at-risk children in the community, those children have a greater chance of entering the system and not leaving it. An example of this type of program is the Project Positive Action through Holistic Education. The program helps the students grow a link to schools. Project Positive Action through Holistic Education includes “peer teaching, school-pride campaigns, peer counseling services, job fairs, and career planning (Araki, 2003)” to help students prepare for the future and keep them out of trouble in the present. Juveniles should be able to leave the detention centers when finished with their sentences and join the real world without being pulled back into the Criminal Justice System.
San Diego Hope for Humanity, will focus on identifying and developing the youth and young adults on their capacities based on, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, social and emotional to educate them on: • How to choose an appropriate educational program. • Actual cost of attending school, including fees, books and supplies, transportation and living expenses. • How to develop and maintain a workable budget. • Balancing family life and school/ • Taking care of their emotional and physical health. Training youth right understanding.
By bringing awareness and hopefully an end to youth homelessness, society will not only help get these youth off the streets,
TDSB: The TDSB (Toronto District School Board) is the largest school board in Canada. Situated in one of Canada’s most diverse city, the TDSB is perhaps one of the most diverse school boards in North America; over 120 different languages are spoken by TDSB students. By providing various programs, the TDSB does it’s best to cater to the different needs of each ethnic and cultural group. It consists of over 584 schools, and almost 250 000 full-time students.
Local businesses and communities have partnered with the ASPC wo address the city’s tough issues. The ASPC is a thriving nonprofit that has stayed true to their mission from the beginning; the ASPC is setting the stage for young people to
Renovation of the President’s and Executive Vice President’s offices were not in alignment with the broad objective of Woody 2000 project. It was included in the project just to make use of the opportunity that since other activities were being carried out, then why not include the renovation in the project as well. But since it did not serve the project’s objective, but just added to the project cost and time, it wasn’t a good idea. b. Write a simple project scope statement.
I remember waking up that morning, feeling paralyzed, as well as a rush of emotions. Feeling uneasy but ambitious, demoralized but delighted, timid but fearless; it was the day. Not just any day but the most anticipated day for all the second graders: Bake Sale day. As I was told by my teacher, Ms. Ash, this Bake Sale was at the utmost importance, because it would be funding our field trip later that year. I had always been a soft- spoken individual so the thought of talking to another individual; nevertheless, trying to sell an item to another individual on whether our cookies were better than the third graders was daunting and the burden of the field trip only added to the pressure.
For a while, imagine you stay in an environment which is constant in all terms whether its seasons, routine, the way you do your dress or edibles you intake; everything is just same as it was the previous day. Wouldn 't it become intolerable to survive in such circumstances, snatching vividness and our zeal & goal to live life? This interminable assumption gives us the thoughtful sketch of an importance of diversity in our lives. Diversity is a wizard which keeps the human race going, which we face in the form of globalization and better understanding towards it is something we want to attain through global education.
Everbody does have the abilty to affect others, and so do I. In this summer, I served as a teacher in a summer camp, teaching primary school students. Throughout my service learning experience, I gained a lot of insights and reflections. I served, and at the same time I learnt. I have comparatively significant changes in two aspects, including my passion in helping the underprivileged children and adolescents, as well as my problem-solving and decision-making capacities.