$60 for the entire series on Zoom
Fostering Youth-Centred Impact
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Leveraging Social Media to Better Engage Youth
Practicing Youth Engagement Scenarios Together
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Refining Your Youth Engagement Plan
*Please note, all registrants will be provided with a link to the recording and presentation slides following the sessions. The recording will be available for 60 days.
September 25th, 1:00-2:00 PM ET
Presenters: Siobhan Takala and Cameron Armstrong
This webinar will be led by two of Youth Climate Labs senior programs staff. It will focus on best practices surrounding engagement in programming such as hiring, training, and retaining youth. Additionally presenters will look at how to reach youth in programs who may be experiencing barriers to attend.
They focus on long term and short term youth employees so you're prepared in advance of seasonal summer job positions. They'll go over youth motivations in navigating careers, desires in roles and ways of working,and how this informs YCL's work.
The team will also share the Youth Climate Lab toolbox and specific case studies for participants to see how to apply these concepts and leave with the knowledge on how to create and manage supportive opportunities for youth within your organization.
October 2nd, 1:00-2:00 PM ET
Presenters: Kate Ashwood and Jess Cholette-Barr
This webinar will show the importance of online presence and social media communication to advance youth engagement in your organization.
The YCL Impact Manager and Senior Communications Specialist will go over best practices for all the major social media platforms based on research and youth engagement best practices. They will explore what to be mindful of when communicating online about sustainability to youth, including greenwashing. Additionally, they'll go through case studies with participants on communicating about climate change, demystifying concepts and jargon to youth and how to communicate accessible recruitment strategies.
Participants will leave with a clear understanding on how to best utilize different social media platforms, how to communicate with a youth audience in a clear effective and engaging way, and how to structure your communications to achieve your intended reach.
October 9th, 1:00-2:30 PM ET
Facilitators: Siobhan, Kate and Cameron
In this workshop you can presubmit a scenario or question you are struggling with around working with and engaging youth in your organization. Youth Climate Lab will also have example scenarios to show and build off of.
Some examples of scenarios will include:
- You’re trying to build a youth council for your organization, what steps will you take?
- You want to make sure youth are included and engaged at your upcoming conference, whose attendees will mainly be working professionals, what steps can you take to ensure youth participation?
After presenting an example we will split into 2 or 3 breakout groups and facilitate conversations offering tailored advice on your scenarios in order to provide relevant and practical solutions from our team of youth engagement staff. Youth Climate Lab will provide a resource list and information after the workshop which will be customized to the information attendees provide upon registration so each attendees will leave with knowledge and resources relevant to their work.
October 16th, 1:00-2:30 PM ET
Facilitators: Siobhan, Kate and Cameron
In this final workshop, Youth Climate Lab will present the final learnings from the series as a reference document for steps to take when creating your organization's youth engagement strategy.
Youth Climate Lab will showcase how to evaluate a youth engagement strategy, and then will deep dive into 3 engagement strategies submitted by attendees. YCL will facilitate an interactive, generative conversation between attendees to provide group feedback and work through improvements on the strategy.
Participants will learn how to critically look at youth engagement strategies, common mistakes, and improvement areas and leave the workshop feeling more confident in effectively engaging youth in an intentional and long lasting way.
We will follow up with participants providing resources to use or further reading opportunities going forward.
Siobhan Takala
Siobhan is the Senior Programs Manager. She directs the implementation of YCL programs, including managing program staff, supporting program design, and managing internal processes that ensure YCL programs have their intended impacts. Siobhan grew up engaging in social justice movements, and education on the climate crisis. She was Co-Founder and Co-Director of Let’s Sprout, a youth-led initiative dedicated to youth creativity, authentic leadership and environmental education, and has been named a Top 25 Environmentalist by The Starfish Canada.
Cameron Armstrong
Cameron Armstrong (she/her) is the Senior Programs Specialist at Youth Climate Lab. She is a mixed Filipina environmentalist and youth advocate who was born and raised on Treaty 1 Territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her interests focus on environmental justice, youth advocacy, water protection, and centring BIPOC youth in climate spaces. She is passionate about community-led solutions that are rooted in anti-oppression and restorative justice. Cameron is also the Manitoba Regional Organizer for Climate Reality Project Canada and also sits on the Consider Climate, Manitoba Steering Committee through this role.
Kate Ashwood
Kate is the Impact Manager at Youth Climate Lab, leading the measurement, evaluation and learning of the organization and communications strategies to amplify organizational impact. She also manages the Activate (You)th fee for service, collaborations and partnerships. Kate grew up in Ottawa (Anishinabe and Algonquin territory) engaging in local and global social justice movements. Through informal and formal learning settings she learned (and continues to learn) about the intersectionality of climate change with systemic social injustice.
Jess Cholette-Barr
Jess is the Communications Specialist at Youth Climate Lab, where she is responsible for creating and curating content for YCL’s social media platforms. Born and raised in Toronto, Jess is a recent graduate who is passionate about social, economic, political, and environmental justice. Jess is passionate about youth-centred climate justice spaces, and is always seeking new opportunities to learn, grow, and connect. She graduated with a Combined Honours degree (BA) in Environment, Sustainability and Society from Dalhousie University, and Contemporary Studies from
Session 1: Settler Colonialism 101
Introduce ENGO representatives to the fact that colonization is a structure and not an event. Identifies key ways that colonialism moves through individuals and organizations.
Session 2: Positionality
ENGO representatives learn how to articulate their social location within a settler colonial state, and in relation to potential Indigenous partners.
Session 3: Inherent Indigenous Governance 101
Introduce the fact that Indigenous nations have their own sources of political authority that they can (and do) draw on when addressing environmental issues. Examples provided.
Session 4: Building Better Relations
ENGO representatives will road test ways they can implement previous workshop key points to re-imagine partnerships with Indigenous nations.
Cost: $100 (or register 4 staff from the same organization for one stream and get the 5th registration free)
All registrants will be provided with a link to access the recordings and presentation slides for 60 days following each session.
Session 1: Diagnosing Settler Colonialism in the Enviro Sector
Participants will be asked to share ways in which they have diagnosed and traced power in social justice movements and/or in the ENGO sector. This workshop will make space for discomfort as part of promoting decolonization.
Session 2: Inherent Indigenous Governance
A mix of advanced and introductory theory, this workshop delves into legal and political pluralism, naming the fact that Indigenous nations have their own sources of political authority that they can (and do) draw on when addressing environmental issues.
Session 3: The Nonprofit Industrial Complex
ENGO participants are introduced to theories and examples describing the Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the “Shadow State.” Purpose is to show how settler colonialism structures civil society.
Session 4: Decolonizing ENGO-First Nation Partnerships
This workshop delves deep into how ENGOs can partner with Indigenous nations beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex while promoting deference to inherent Indigenous political leaders.
Cost: $100 (or register 4 staff from the same organization for one stream and get the 5th registration free)
All registrants will be provided with a link to access the recordings and presentation slides for 60 days following each session.
The Indigenous only space will be collaborative in nature but critical in approach. This track is a space for Indigenous folks within the ENGO sector to come together to discuss their experiences and work, with an eye to taking a position on what the sector might need to do in order to promote decolonization. Participants will use the first session to define our goals for the remaining three meetings. Therefore, session topics named here are proposals only.
Session 1: Naming the Cannibal: Settler Colonialism in the ENGO Sector
Session 2: Proposed topic: Reflections on working in the ENGO Sector
Session 3: Proposed topic: Centering Indigenous Thought in the ENGO Sector
Session 4: Proposed topic: Visioning a Decolonial Environmental Sector
Cost: Free
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