This program will integrate mental health services, mentorship, physical wellness activities, nutritional guidance, and mindfulness practices to promote overall well-being. By leveraging community resources and volunteers, CYHWI will empower youth to manage their mental health effectively within a minimal budget.
Objectives
1. Promote Mental Health Awareness: Educate youth and the community about mental health issues, symptoms, and resources.
2. Offer Comprehensive Support: Provide accessible and low-cost counseling, mentorship, physical activities, nutritional advice, and mindfulness practices.
3. Reduce Mental Health Stigma: Foster open conversations about mental health to normalize seeking help.
4. Enhance Overall Well-being: Equip youth with tools to maintain physical, emotional, and mental health.
Target Audience
– Youth aged 12-25 within the community
– Parents, educators, and community leaders
2. Youth Camp & LOVE BOWL Recreational Tournament – SOCCER TEAM
Youth Camp in the Summer with events as Bowling in a bowling lane, soccer games, to create a positive social awareness team and partnership support with community youths. We side with the basketball tournament (CANADA HOOPS)Job Empowerment and community support
3. Youth-Led Community Crisis Response Team
A youth-led, youth-driven project that addresses youth violent incident/crisis in a community (local neighborhood or community of common bond) and contribute to community capacity building and/or healing and well-being for most Vulnerable People (Youth) in low income neighbourhoods. Provide support, encouragement – visits until crisis is resolved – Healed. With support by a City Community Development Officer (CDO) from the Community Crisis Response Program (CCRP) or the Youth Violence Prevention Community Development Officer from the Youth Development Unit of the locality chosen to assist with this project. A community elder/worker in our organisation heads the project.
4. Black Youth Support Community Initiative
Support the black youths and young adults, Job creation and moral impact in the local community/inner cities. Support other minority youths and young adult communities.
Specific Goals include:
Support a moral culture where youths can grow with a good well-being, through local initiatives that network the local youth, create Jobs and good moral cultural and spiritual strength for continuity
Strategy to succeed in our goals is to implement Well-being Recreation, Job empowerment training, mental health support and counseling, recreation bowling, basketball, up coming soccer team events. Working with our Crisis Response Team to meet vision capacity.
We measure our impact in our successes. We see the young generation gets support for education, moral cultural growth free of youth violence.
Our unique impact involves eliminating school drop out, less violence, Job creation – Spiritual moral culture awareness and understanding.
A few examples of successes are
- Passing out information on our social media against gangs acceptance, violence against youths by youths, against women, peer pressure, bullings, and other youth crimes.
2 Supported Community Youths To High School Diploma
3. Job Creation and employment (Job Empowerment Project/Training)
4. Carpooling New Comers To Job Locations
We try to engage as many black youths in the summer with our recreational events to promoting cultural safety and black african decent traditions, celebrating Black Excellence, challenging Anti-Black Racism, and/or removing financial barriers in our work in the community.Why apply key principles of non violence at the work place when racist atmosphere and activities by other young adult workers are experienced by the black youth – To always look to the Human Resource after a supervisor intervention if required, a safe and peaceful work environment is our vision for all Black Youth, and our Action Plan is geared towards that with community assistance of parents and elders.
Our top challenges are
1. Awareness
2. Funding
3. Equipment Van – Buses