YouthInBC Be heard. Get help.

“As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.
(click here for part I)
Last week, we took a shot at talking about bullying, what it looks like and how broad that is.  Despite the wide variety of situations it can cover, hopefully we’ll be able to nail down [...]

Posted: June 26th, 2010 under Blog.

Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw.
Had two big horns and a wooly jaw.
Wooly bully, wooly bully.
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
- Wooly Bully, by Sam The Sham

Perhaps one of the most challenging issues to address here has consistently been bullying.  Even though many people seem to agree on what bullying is, what it [...]

Posted: June 19th, 2010 under Blog.

“Football’s a difficult game and aren’t they prima donnas?… But it’s a wonderful game.”
- Queen Elizabeth II, regarding players who overact to draw penalties
Today marks the beginning of the 2010 FIFA World Cup and though soccer isn’t especially popular in North America, it’s pretty Serious Business by international standards.  In fact, it’s often held that [...]

Posted: June 12th, 2010 under Blog.

“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s definitely an exciting/stressful time of year.
… For some of you, I mean!
Although I realize that the timing for the end of the year is different for everyone, we just wanted to take a [...]

Posted: June 6th, 2010 under Blog.

“Video games are bad for you?  That’s what they said about rock-n-roll.”
- Shigeru Miyamoto
For the past three years, Jennifer Ann’s Group has sponsored the Life. Love. Game Design Challenge.  Jennifer Ann’s Group is a non-profit from Georgia whose goal is to educate others about the very real dangers of teen dating violence and every year, [...]

Posted: May 29th, 2010 under Blog.

A danger forseen is half-avoided.
- Cheyenne Proverb
A while ago, we brought up some of the national youth & crisis lines to let you know who you could call after hours, when we’re closed.  Of course, there are other reasons to call them and that’s part of what I was thinking we’d talk about today: Other [...]

Posted: May 22nd, 2010 under Blog.

“Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing.”
- Ralph Richardson
A few weeks ago, we wrote a little bit on music and started talking about how music was a fairly hobby for some, way to deal with feelings for others.  Sometimes when you’re feeling heartbroken, blaring sad music is a [...]

Posted: May 15th, 2010 under Blog.

“When young people decide to take action they can make what’s seemingly impossible, possible.”
- Zach de la Rocha, from Rage Against the Machine (source)
So every May, The Vancouver East Cultural Centre (or as it’s now called, The Cultch) has put on IGNITE! Youth Arts Festival, a week-long for-youth-by-youth festival celebrating art in a bazillion different [...]

Posted: May 8th, 2010 under Blog.

“Charity is that rational and constant affection, which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.”
- Confucius
This week’s entry will be a little short, things are a little hectic today.  Tonight is the centre’s [...]

Posted: May 1st, 2010 under Blog.

“Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don’t believe the kids should be given homework.”
- Bill Cosby
So the news in Ontario has been exploding all week about a new sex ed curriculum.  A few days ago, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said he was in favour of sex ed for [...]

Posted: April 24th, 2010 under Blog.