Finding the right recipe for a successful project is always a challenge.
In Rivière des Prairies, 12 young people have discovered that
the perfect café demands a lot more than a few decadent drinks
and some yummy treats. Their discoveries led them to create
Café Le Spot – a project they could all work towards and believe in. More...
Hey Ernest Morrow, What's your Beef?
In 2009, Child and Youth Friendly Calgary received and email from a teacher named Christie Chan from Ernest Morrow Junior High. Christie was asking for help with her leadership class. After meeting with Ernest Morrow, the students wished to create a resilient school, and YouthScape aims to build resilient communities. Staff asked students: “What’s your beef”? More...
Under the Big Top with the Circus School
Zach, Kailey and Seoras are smiling broadly as they describe what it felt like to develop, choreograph and perform their own circus show at a premiere location in Halifax. Seoras nods as Zach says, “The show was 100% our show, we controlled every aspect of it”. Kailey adds that the public response was huge, in fact the performance sold out, “This show was about us, our own community, we built it, we shaped it, it grew organically out of what we normally do”. More...
Green Space Warriors
When I arrived at Dennis Franklin Cromarty First Nations High School at the beginning of second semester, I thought that its courtyard was very plain and a wasted space. There was hardly any activity there at all. When YouthScape came to the school and offered their services to make it a useful area, I knew it was something I wanted to be a part of. Learn more about Shannon’s story on how Thunder Bay students are planting trees, setting up a teepee and creating a new school courtyard space. More…
YouthScape – where young people are seen, heard and respected
Take pails and pails of bright-coloured paint. Add energized, though socially vulnerable Calgary youth. Stir in professionals who want to help. Calgary’s newest mural goes a long way toward bridging the gap between youth and adults by reinforcing that the distance is usually more perception than reality. More…
YouthScape – where young people are seen, heard and respected
