Our guests this meeting were Calia Galvin, Natsuki Inuzuka, Priscilla Roche, Victoria Segovia Borja, Krista Burnham, Yolanda Broderick, and Steve Kim.
Introduction To Our Leaders of Tomorrow: Victoria Segovia Borja (our club’s exchange student), Priscilla Roche, Natsuki Inuzuka, and Celia Galvin – all who were participants of the Rotary District 5050 YAIL, Youth Adventure in Leadership.
This workshop was held in Maple Ridge, the weekend of Feb.6 to the 8th
Rules of the YAIL event were:
- No phones allowed
- Must talk to people who you have never met before
The Agenda Included:
- Guest Speaker from the United Nations
- Partaking in fun outdoor activities, team workshops projects, culture walks, and community clean-up.
- Focus on peace projects, working with groups who are minorities and vulnerable groups
The Take-Aways From The Weekend:
- Learned the importance of teamwork and good communication skills.
- How working together, we can achieve much more
- The games, integration, and presentations pushed the participants out of their comfort zones
- Helped to become more social which aided in gaining confidence with new people
- Made new friends
- Left the weekend taking pride in themselves and feeling that new experiences can be worthwhile.
- Although this weekend was a bit intimidating at first, at the end everyone felt more confident and they discovered that meeting new people was actually fun!
- Recognizing and appreciating the unique contributions each person brings, and a willingness to celebrate the differences that make us stronger as a team!
You are all truly brave, strong, and inspiring individuals and will bring good to our world – we know that we will see you in exciting and new leadership roles in the future!
Access Youth Outreach Services Society are pioneers in the field of “streetwork”. This group meets youth where they are, providing personalized outreach and support to connect them with the community and resources they need to thrive.
They are making a real difference in the lives of the youth in the communities and help to enhance the quality of life for the youth in the communities that they serve who are marginalized, isolated, hanging out on the streets, homeless or at risk of homelessness. This is achieved by building relationships with youth, offering timely and relevant resources, enhancing their connection with community, and strengthening their relationship with their family by bringing services to them.
Project Reach Out (PRO), also known as “The Bus,” is an innovative, award-winning mobile youth centre, serving the Tri-City communities since 2004. Since its inception, Project Reach Out has made over 35,000 connections in the community, providing engagement with youth. The Bus is a mobile one-stop-shop for youth to access food, clothing, winter gear, blankets, sexual health supplies, harm reduction supplies (including Naloxone), personal hygiene supplies, and menstrual health products. Outreach Workers on the Bus also provide sexual health and drug education, counselling support, conflict resolution, referrals, and in-the-moment support. The Bus is LGBTQ2S+ friendly and operates from a harm reduction lens.
The Art Journalling Group is an in-person 8-week after-school program. Each week is a themed conversation around topics like consent, boundaries, what do healthy relationships look like, substance use/abuse and many other important topics of conversation for our youth to explore together guided by a facilitator.
Youth Gour-Made is a one-of-kind program. This program is offered in a mobile and virtual setting so youth participants can learn fundamental life skills like, pre-cutting and pre-measuring your ingredients,learning what a boiling point is at Fahrenheit and Celsius, and how to cook all the ingredients together, right in the comfort of their own home. This program has become a bridge over the gap in accessing healthy, nutritious, and affordable food in the communities we serve.
Staffing the Bus are Outreach Youth Workers who have diverse backgrounds in fields like Child and Youth Care, Social Work, and Addictions Counselling. Each discipline adds to the uniqueness of our team to best reflect the wide variety of life experience in the youth we encounter.
If you are ages 12 to 23 and reside in the Tri Cities and are in need of services provided by the bus, please call 911 or reach out to Access Youth Outreach Society.
Thank you, Steve. The work you and your team are doing is exceptional. It’s clear how valuable a mobile youth access centre like this can be, and it would be incredible to see similar support available in more communities to help prevent devastating tragedies.
On Wednesday, our club's Membership committee held their first meeting - good turnout and had a vey productive brainstorming session on how to bring in new members from our community.
This Thursday brought a great turnout for our session on Recognizing Human Trafficking and discussing how our club can meaningfully contribute to prevention and awareness. We were honoured to welcome Staff Sergeant Chris Sledding of the Port Moody Police Major Crimes Unit, along with District Governor Isabelle Martinez Hayer, club members, and a guest. Our DG will be sending additional details later this week.
The Langley Rotaract Club is collecting eye glasses that are no longer being used. The donations are for a small Rotary project in Mexico. For info, please contact Zack Parker, President of Langley Rotaract Group or Al Stjernegaard from our club.
Saturday, Feb.28th at Rocky Point Park at noon - It’s that time of year again – The Polar Plunge for Special Olympics is back – when a huge group of us run in to the ocean yelling & screaming! Participating in the Polar Plunge is an easy and fun way for all of us to connect for inclusion and show we care about people with disabilities. The event empowers Special Olympics BC athletes and raises vital funds to support Special Olympics BC’s life-changing year-round sport, youth, and heath programs for athletes with intellectual disabilities. Our club will be running the hot dog stand – Please contact Darrell for volunteering.
Tickets are selling fast for our Rotary “Search For The Pint - Go to SearchforthePerfectPint.ca. Organizer: Alan Kabatoff.
Looking for volunteers to help with the HIP – Honouring Indigenous Peoples event – a weekend bringing Rotary groups together with Indigenous youth. This event aims to foster reconciliation, environmental stewardship, and cultural understanding among Indigenous and non-indigenous youth across Canada for community well-being and advancing the next generation of leaders.
Please contact Cleone or Darrell to be part of this important, exciting and high energy event!
Inlet Spring Regatta, Dragon Boating Beer Fest - Saturday, April 28/26
Looking for volunteers to help with the beer garden. Great community event and lots of fun!
Please contact Neil Nyberg on how you can help out!
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Thank you President Alison for another great meeting and all the work that you do for our club.
And as we close this week’s newsletter, may we all strive to be happy and appreciative, act with kindness, and share love with everyone we meet.