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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!→

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→

Friends Forever?

Posted on January 2, 2012 by anucha

Are we friends or are we not? You told me once but I forgot So tell me now and tell me true So I can say I am here for you Of all the friends I have ever met You’re the one I won’t forget

Redefining the Words ‘Young Mother’

Posted on December 20, 2011 by anucha

For the Teen Mother: We know who we are. We are individuals, each with our own story and our own dreams. We are women who had our babies in our teens. We know who we are.