Community – Page 6

Celebrate Jane/Finch Neighbourhood Pride and Get Walking!

Posted on April 24, 2012 by anucha

Youth in the Jane/Finch community, like youth in other ‘marginalized’ urban cities, have been the focus of negative public communication that brands them as ‘problems.’ Extensive negative media coverage of the community has resulted in the association of Jane/Finch with youth-on-youth violence, poverty, and lack of opportunity. Paradoxically, co-existing with this negative framing of Jane/Finch is a high degree of Continue reading Celebrate Jane/Finch Neighbourhood Pride and Get Walking!→

Perspective Matters

Posted on April 2, 2012 by anucha

There was a great interview this morning on CBC Radio’s Metro Morning with our friends at Success Beyond Limits about stigma in the Jane/Finch community.

The ACE Program

Posted on February 9, 2012 by anucha

Hello, my name is Jason. I just recently graduated from an amazing program called the Advanced Credit Experience (ACE) program. I have been up at York University’s Keele Campus for the entire first semester. During that time, I received a university credit, as well as four high school credits. I participated in a university course, found out what a tutorial Continue reading The ACE Program→

Crackberry

Posted on January 16, 2012 by anucha

Do you remember the time when one actually played outside, or met up with friends and actually spoke, or when people actually had physical communication and did not hide behind the screens of their phones all day long? Those days no longer exist. Instead, today much of the Western population, youth especially, spend their time behind the screens of their Continue reading Crackberry→