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Agenda
1) Overview
2) Youth Ambassador experiences
3) Sample activities
Diversity
Who needs to be included in your community?
How have you included people in your community?
Building Welcoming & Inclusive Neighbourhoods
• Multiple Neighbourhood Houses are involved• Explores their leadership role in building
community capacity to be welcoming to all• Aims to address racism and social exclusion in
creative and responsive ways• Activities include welcome events for
newcomers, Safe Harbour training, dialogue circles, community lunches and celebrations
Safe Harbour (AMSSA)
• “Respect for All” • Community Organizers train businesses or
other organizations to be Safe Harbours• To be a Safe Harbour, a location – commits to provide equitable treatment for all
clients/customers– provides a temporary safe place for community
members who have been mistreated– prepares employees to provide these
Safe Harbour Youth Ambassadors
• Model developed by Skeena Diversity Society (Terrace) • Piloted by Cowichan Intercultural Society and Cambell River Multicultural and Immigrant Services Association• Program has run in about 14 communities in BC
What is it?
Provincial program that engages youth in creating welcoming environments for diversity in
their schools and communities
Trained youth in grades 10-12 facilitate three 45-min Children Safe Harbour Workshops for
students in grades 4-7
Goals
• To provide training to high school students so that they become enthusiastic role models for understanding and respecting diversity• To support the YA's to facilitate workshops for children• To have youth demonstrate leadership in ati-racism and anti-hate advocacy and education on multiculturalism and diversity
Here is a diagram that shows how to turn bully/victim/by-stander triangles into a circle of safety and respect:
Instead of a bully, here is a person
who is not thinking.
Instead of a victim here is person who has the potential to become a diversity educator
Instead of a bystander, here is a person who is learning to stand up for all differences.
Safe Harbour - Here is a safe place where
children can learn and practice their rights and
responsibilities to include and be included.
Training model
Youth Ambassador training
1) Experiencing the Children Safe Harbour workshop
2) Integrating training with experience• Discussing own experiences• Facilitation skills development
3) Preparing materials• Graphic facilitation practice
4) Dress rehearsal
Diversity workshops for children
1) Dare to Be Different
1) 2) Standing Up for Inclusion
1) 3) Finding a Safe Place or Safe Adult