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Hi again,

I am keen to hear from bloggers with an interest in civic activism through youth community mapping activities. We are starting 4 teams of youth up in the fall (funding is close to being finalized) with one team handling the leadership and decision making along with adult and mentor support. I see blogs as a natural fit for supporting and pushing forward our agenda. Your help and advice would be most appreciated.

Brent

Hi everyone,

My Program is called Community Resource & Learning Room. As a community based organization running within a local (large high school) we are providing support, volunteer opportunities and citizenship roles for young people as a way to build skills and give youth a stronger voice in the community.

In the fall we are launching a youth community mapping program in partnership with an international youth organization. Our focus will be on youth discovering and mapping their local environment with a particular interest in understanding and taking action on youth poverty and homelessness. We want to connect the teams who will be doing the mapping to each other and to the facilitators/mentors who will work with the teams. We also want to use blogs as a means to dessiminate our findings effectively. I would appreciate help from a blogger who can see the options available and advise me on how to organize a blog effectively and or an cluster of blogs (each volunteer member create a blog?).

I am learning on the fly and am a quick study so if you can help, I would be most appreciative. I have plenty of background on the Program rational, goals, activities and work plan if you would like to go over that.

Thanks,

Brent MacKinnon

Program Manager, Community Resource & Learning Room