Serve! Engaging Youth for Change

Serve! empowers youth to become caring, confident, and contributing members of their community through experience-based learning.

Featured Blog: My Own Sitcom.
 
One participant’s reflection on her experiences and meeting as well as working alongside different team members.

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BNR: Fully Clothed ~ Thank you to all the attendees, volunteers, staff, suppliers and performers who supported BNR 2009!

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News
Serve! Seeking Community Project Partner(s) For Upcoming Experience This! Program

We are looking for a few agency partners for weekly community projects for a team of 10 youth (17 to 24 years old) to meet community needs and to build youth civic engagement and skills development. Does your organization/agency have a project that can run once a week from end of January to May 2010? We are mainly looking for projects for Monday or Wednesday afternoons (or possibly a one-time service project on a Friday morning).

Serve! Uncorked
Fine Wine Tasting and Auction Join us for one of Toronto's 'not-to-be-missed' events!

Thursday November 5, 2009
Experience This! Podcast
A collaborative youth project to both understand and express some of the issues of gendered violence:

Tie Your Shoe With a White Ribbon: walking the line between love and hate.
Big Night In Rosedale 2009 A Success!

Photos and Media Coverage:
Being in Serve Canada was an opportunity that I cannot take for granted. During the program, we collaborated with many organizations to create educational workshops for young people. At Justice For Children and Youth, we put together workshops on youth street laws involving their rights. Working with JFCY really opened my eyes to an unknown world that surrounds me everyday involving the younger generation.
Louisette Saintfort, 2004 Experience This! Graduate
Imagine walking into a new environment with fresh faces staring at you, at that moment you're second guessing your decision to join such a social program. Meeting new people can be as challenging as learning math or writing a two page essay. By the second week of orientation I roughly got to know the people I would be spending the next five months with. Wow!