“What I have been able to understand is that almost all of the youth have the ability to be self-sufficient through their own knowledge and skills that they already possess. I have also seen that there is no on…
When asked ‘what do you want to make Calgarians aware of?’ for International Overdose Awareness Day 2017, our young people shared this video and this poem and we began to understand: many suffering from opioid addiction are also suffering…
In the ‘polite society’ for which Canada is known world wide, it is very challenging to ask the hard social questions about What is working? What is not working? In our efforts to be courteous and to ‘play nicely…
As we assign searchable FOCUS categories to our compiled 30 years of archived writing, we are celebrating the gold of re-reading and learning from perspectives, wisdom and statements offered by young people over 3 decades navigating their personal change…
As we prepared for our Engaging Youth, Engaging Community Events we asked young people at The Doorway a couple questions to ensure we represented them well and brought their voice to the conversation. The alignment between their perspective and…
Soup Sisters hosted a soup event last week, facilitating a group of High School students in making spaghetti and meatballs, chicken noodle soup and other hearty soups for our young people. Before the event we asked young people at…