Youth Community Mapping Program – community based action research
December 4th, 2009
Youth Community Mapping Program – HALT
This project is now about 5 years old. I find it very interesting that the recently released report “Roots of Youth Violence” recommends that community initiatives and programs can be delivered out of high schools as way to address the disconnect many youth feel in the school system. The HALT program (Homelessness Alliance Through Leadership & Teamwork was such a program with its base at Huron Heights Secondary School and sponsored by the Community Resource & Learning Room and Street Kids International. Visit the Youth Community Mapping Project Blog to learn more about this community based research project.
Our community mapping will be a research process that directly involves youth in examining their own environment. The product of this research will not just be a typical one dimensional quantitative report but instead a rich story, gathered by youth through a variety of creative approaches. The Youth Community Mapping Program is about the development and process of four teams of youth, aged 13 to 24. Each team is comprised of eight to 16 young people, supported by Program Staff and Adult Volunteer Mentors.The combined research of the youth will be used to establish a map that has a background landscape of youth poverty and homelessness. Within this landscape of poverty and homelessness, each team has been assigned a particular focus area to build our group map. The Newmarket Mapping Team is focused on the theme of adult-youth relationships. The Richmond Hill Mapping Team will build on the broad issues related to health from a holistic perspective and the Markham mapping team is looking at youth recreation. Our Leadership Team will connect the work of the three mapping teams and organize our presentations to the broader community.




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