This Empower’em project in particular is focussed on providing mental health programming that promotes healthy living and peer support to help racialized and Muslim youth who are often oppressed for their identities.
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Win Win Homesharing is an alternative housing arrangement program where seniors and students live together.
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The Carleton University Race, Ethnicity, Culture (REC) Hall is a student-led service centre for racialized students. Carleton University REC hall provides racialized students with services like peer support and programming.
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Inspired by the recent changes to the provincial Sexual Education curriculum changes, the goal of this project was to provide important sexual education to youth across Ottawa. The goal of this project was also to improve young people’s knowledge about STBBIs (Sexually transmitted blood-borne infections), general reproductive health information, and connecting youth with local queer and trans organizations.
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Balling For Our brothers is a basketball tournament that took place in July 2019. It aims to address systemic inequality and discrimination. The youth created this movement after they unfortunately lost several members of their community to gun violence in 2015-2016.
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Project X is a youth-led initiative in the West end of Ottawa that hopes to build community by hosting several basketball tournament fundraisers. The goal of the project is to create mentorship opportunities for youth in low-income communities while also fostering community development.
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