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Hey team!

Just wanted to give you a brief update from Montreal. It's been a great trip so far. As soon as I arrived, I met with Yassir, Ilyes, and Sessi on the status of our Francophone engagement in Montreal. Though there has been definite progress in terms of outreach, partnerships, and online engagement, we are still facing certain barriers in reaching francophone youth as broadly as we would look. We decided that the best way for us to expand our networks in Montreal is to build strong partnerships with the more established francophone youth serving groups in the city. This might seem like common sense but the key is to identify groups that would benefit from the partnership as much as we would, groups that have shown interest in working with TIG or at least an interest in strengthening their programming in the ways that we could support. So we identified about 8 key groups we would like to develop partnerships with for Year 3 CLC. We also talked about the importance of networking at this stage as a way of increasing our visibility. We will be building a 3 month strategy together on Friday. It was so great to meet the three of them in person - we all share so much enthusiasm for our CLC work - i left feeling very inspired about what we can achieve in the coming year.

I then attended an Aboriginal Career Development dialogue on Monday and Tuesday. Various individuals and organizations were brought together to discuss the future of the Aboriginal work force and how greater cross-sectoral collaboration could help strengthen current efforts. We were such as diverse group, all adding a different piece to the puzzle. I realize that the work we do with the aboriginal program is such an important piece. It was expressed time and time again that empowering aboriginal youth to want to govern their lives should come before anything else, so the group had a lot of respect for the work we do and our efforts to cultivate a support network for aboriginal youth. Actually i was surprised to see how many people had already heard of TakingITGlobal! Many of them are members of the website and really like our newsletters, hehe. Anyway, being the only young person in attendance gave me many opportunities to offer a different perspective on things and share some of our best practices at TIG and other organizations we've partnered with. Everyone seemed really interested to learn of our approach, as a youth-led group, in terms of strategic planning, activity implementation, and focus on innovation and entrepreneurship.

One activity that resonated with all of us what a simple question that started off the day. What would a person look like if their human resource was fully developed? We ended up filling 8 pages of flip chart paper to draw a complete picture of what such a person would look like.
Off the top of my head, this list included: critical thinker, contributer to the community, compassionate, educated, inspiring, resilient, self-actualized and confident etc. During the rest of the dialogue, we kept the image of this person in mind. Even though we all have very different priorities in our work and use different approaches we all share this common vision of a person who has reached their full potential.

Anyway, this has gotten longer than i imagined. I'll stop there for now with more to come!

peace and love,
Kimia

April 24, 2008 | 6:32 PM Comments  0 comments

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