One day a student came up with the idea to have representative for the Kids Help Phone in high schools across Canada. Student Ambassadors make speeches to other groups of teens about how they can reach the Help Phone and to let teenagers know they aren’t alone. Representatives will also help with fundraising and start…
The Youth by Youth Cinema (YYC) is open to youth from grades 4 through 12 who have made a film in the past year. Prizes and awards will be given out in three categories – Best Short: High School, Best Short: Elementary/Junior High, and Young Renegade.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) was created by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II. Over the years, UNICEF has evolved from an organization that rescue children in danger to an organization that empowers…
September is nearly upon us, and with only a few weeks left until you’re back chatting in the halls and studying for math tests! Naturally, it’s time to start keeping an eye out for the back-to-school/university trends. If you’re tightening the belt a little this year, that’s okay, because there is a super-cool site…
Each year, the Marda Loop community celebrates an annual event known as the Marda Gras festival! This year the festival was on August 9th. The festival is composed of a street market, bands + live music, a children’s area and a huge amount of people. I was there as a YVC volunteer and I must say…
If you love orchestra music , you oughtn’t miss this amazing performance by The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra, a group of the best musicians from high schools in Venezuela. This is made possible by a publicly financed voluntary sector music-education program called El Sistenma , its offical name in English is the “National Network of Youth…
It’s that time of year again – your opportunity to join the Mayor’s Youth Council! The Mayor’s Youth Council (MYC), is a partnership between Child and Youth Friendly Calgary and The City of Calgary, and represents the voice of Calgary’s youth. Each year members of the Mayor’s Youth Council (ages 13-18) choose topics relevant to…
Sled Island! We’re all about it here this week at Youth Are Awesome as you can tell… What we’re most excited about is the fact that Random Task Collective is headlining the Milk Young Buds Stage at Sled Island tonight, happening at Loose Moose Theatre! Random Task Collective (RTC) is a wicked band from Calgary that…
This past May, CYFC held the 2009 ConocoPhillips Youth of Distiction Awards – a really cool awards program that honours youth in non-academic categories that revolve around leadership, friendship, and community involvement. The following young women were the recipients of our Enviromentalist Group award, and they’re doing some really cool things for our earth: Amy Spark and…
Bullying is a big issue for lots of youth today – want to be a part of the team that helps stop it? Enter the Alberta Prevention of Bullying Youth Committee: a panel of 15 – 22 year olds working to raise awareness about bullying and altering social ideas about bullying. The cool part about…