Cultivating Healthy Connections
Immigrant Youth Leading Change
Immigrant Youth Leading Change is an interactive and engaging session to better understand how all people can become part of the change to end domestic and gender-based violence. During the session, participants will explore the root causes of domestic and gender-based violence to gain an understanding of how and why abuse happens. We will examine and challenge common myths and misconceptions that exist about abuse that reflect some common experiences of newcomer, immigrant, and refugee youth. The session will provide an overview of how to recognize abusive dynamics, how to safely intervene when we suspect abuse is taking place, and how to access community support.
The Process
Phase 1
We collaborated with community partners and stakeholders to gather feedback on the existing Leading Change curriculum.
Phase 2
Youth will participate in open and closed workshops hosted by community organizations, facilitated by trained members of ACWS and Maskan. At the end of these workshops, interested youth can apply to become facilitators.
Phase 3
Selected youth facilitators will attend a three-day Train-the-Trainer workshop and receive an honorarium of $500. After completing the training, they will host two workshops in their communities to earn an additional honorarium of $500. The total honorarium amounts to $1,000.
Cultivating healthy connections
Our partners across Alberta
Edmonton
- Norquest College
- Catholic Social Services
- University of Alberta
- Radius Health
- UofA Political Science Association
- AIWCC
- Macewan FemSTEM
- Macewan Muslim Student Organization
- PCAE
- UofA Education Student Association
- Sister’s Dialogue
- UofA Black Graduate Student Association
- University of Alberta Sociology Student Group
Calgary
- PCHS
- The Immigrant Education Society
- CIWA
- Youth Lifting Youth
- CCASA
- Calgary Single Mothers Society
- Akram Jomaa
- UofC Education Student Association
- UCalgary SSA
- UCalgary Rotaract
- University of Calgary Sociology Department
- Impact Hub
- UCalgary Women’s Resource Centre
- Advocacy for Ages
- Alfalah Calgary Islamic Center (ACIC)











