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The Canadian Multicultural Disability Centre (INC) enhanced Summer Youth Program
Summer Youth ProgramProject Goals and Activities
Annually CMDCI from July and August conducts an enhanced summer youth Program motivated to:
- Enhance the strengths and resources to improve the capacity of the immigrant and refugee youth to develop coping strategies and skills to work through the difficulties that arise and to realize their dreams.
- Assist immigrant and refugee youth who are struggling against the odds, unfulfilled potential to retell their stories leading to self-transformation and get empowered to seek and access needed support, adopt active engagement behavior in preventive care consequently realize more productive lives. For example, reunite them with their families, going back to school and accessing gainful employment.
Activities
As it relates to activities, throughout all scheduled days the youth are provided with, life learning activities using the Power of Story telling manual, they are also taken to various community activities and guest presenters are invited. More importantly, lunch and transportation are provided.
Admission Criteria
The age range of our participants is 10 to 17 years and must be Permanent residents of Canada.
Rationale for the program
As noted above, our project utilizes the tree of life narrative intervention strategy to assist refugee and immigrant youth to overcome their pre-migration traumas and post-migration settlement challenges. The reason being that many refugee and immigrant youth feel marginalized due to the lack of culturally and linguistically appropriate programmatic intervention options and cultural incompetency in which post-traumatic stress disorder, culture shock, depression, anxiety, and other mental health problems can be misidentified as attention deficit disorder, emotional behavioral disorder, or learning disabilities. On the other hand, differences in language, dialect, culture, and religion can be misconstrued as behavioral, emotional, social, and mental health problems.
Contact
To learn more about the program you can contact us through e-mail at cmdci@cmdci.ca or telephone (431) 338-5809 or (204) 295-719.
Using the button below you can fill out this form to register in the program.
Registration for Summer Youth Program
