The Students Commission of Canada
20th Anniversary Updates
June, 2011 |
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Can you guess in which year each of these occurred?
SC History:
"We are the Agents of Change"
Asia Connects
Forum of the Americas
SC at Rideau HallThe Four Pillars Project Not So Much Young Women's Guide Sharing Resources Current Programs: Violence in Young Women's Lives Youth Adult Partnerships Youth Take on Tobacco Control SC and the YMCA
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We are TURNING 20!!
|  Twenty years ago, on the last weekend in May 1991, 298 youth from every part of Canada arrived at Humber College in Toronto for the first ever Students Commission conference. Four days later they had produced a sixty page report with over 260 recommendations for change! One month later, a group of them went to Ottawa to present those recommendations to Canada's Prime Minister. Wow. What an amazing start!
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| Greetings! | 
It was so great to hear from you! Thanks so much for registering for our special series of updates this year. We hope you will join us in documenting our first twenty years and in supporting the next twenty!
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| Most Favorite SC Moment |  What is your most favorite memory of your time at SC?
Send us an email, a video, a picture, or all three, to help us document our history. We will be putting some of them in future updates for us all to share.
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SC Memories
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"Looking forward to reconnecting with ol' SC friends and hoping to get involved in celebrating the incredible and inspiring work that has transpired over the past 20 years. I'm still in awe that it has been almost 20 years when I dialed the wrong number one day, only to have Bindu answer the phone and tell me about "this conference happening in Ottawa. Wanna come?" she asked. And that was the beginning of many amazing memories and the beginning of several live changing opportunities I was blessed to experience."
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How do you think we should celebrate our twentieth year?
"TG magazine/ The Students Commission was a huge part of my life as a teenager and young adult. I would like to suggest regional celebrations for the anniversary - perhaps connected into one huge event in Toronto or Ottawa. With today's technology - this will be a breeze!" Kent Avery (1994)
Add your vote.
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SC Program: PEACE (2005 to present)
|  Working with Toronto Police Services and young people from Toronto area communities where there are issues of violence related to guns and gangs, SC has produced a video and a workshop which is presented in the schools by an "experienced" young person and a police officer. In four years we have delivered 2,063 workshops to 61,890 youth! A follow-up program for more in-depth youth mentoring in the schools is underway. Youth are also supported in a weekly meeting at our office and at events with community partners. Read more... |
| SC Program: Centre of Excellence (2000 to present) |  The Centre of Excellence for Youth Engagement (CEYE) is a network that brings together the expertise of youth, youth service providers, academic researchers and policy makers. Since the year 2000, the CEYE has identified, built and implemented models of effective practice for meaningfully engaging youth and for documenting the results. The Centre operates under the administrative leadership of The Students Commission and brings together researchers, youth and those who serve youth.
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SC East: Fredericton NB
|  We are thrilled that the new hub in Eastern Canada will be providing a link for our Atlantic partners and the young people who live there. Hosted at St. Thomas University within the Centre for Research on Youth at Risk, the team specializes in linking University students to engage high school students and in working with young people experiencing difficulties with the law. We welcome team leaders Dr. Susan Reid and Kyle MacNevin! |
Working with Aboriginal Youth
|  Currently we are supporting the Chiefs of Ontario, (COO) a coordinating body for 134 First Nation communities as they develop a First Nations Youth Engagement Policy Framework. We have already led a youth engagement and policy training session for the Ontario First Nation Young Peoples Council (a component of COO) and held the first of five Forums this past April in Thunder Bay. We are excited not only by what we are sharing with First Nation youth and organizations but also by what we are learning from this partnership. |
SC Partnership Profile: Girl Guides
|  Since the Fall of 2010, we have been working with Girl Guides of Canada - Guides du Canada (GGC) to assist them in improving their capacity to work with Aboriginal girls and women. Engaging Members of GGC - from six year old Sparks to adult volunteers who have been involved with Guiding for more than 50 years - we produced the Aboriginal Partnership Building and Outreach Strategy Phase One Report, for them. We look forward to continuing our work with the Girl Guides and further supporting girls to have increased opportunities. |
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Hugs from all of us on the SC Team
The Students Commission of Canada
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