Youth 4 Resilient Communities
Calling all Canadian change-makers aged 18-30 years!
Are you ready to make a real impact in your community while tackling urgent climate and water challenges of today?
Youth for Resilient Communities (Y4RC) invites youth across Canada to serve communities by raising awareness and building resilience through community centered action projects. National in design, Y4RC’s immersive experiences will build insights into Canada’s climate and water challenges across seven provinces.
Y4RC has been specifically designed to achieve seven core objectives:
- to strengthen youth resilience
- to heighten youth literacy about climate change's impact on Canadian community health, water and food security
- to develop and to provide youth with the skills (adaptability, leadership, complex problem-solving, collaboration, creativity, project implementation, impact assessment, network development, partnership building, eco-anxiety reduction and peer support) to develop a hope-focused and solution-oriented future
- to empower and give voice to underrepresented, differentially impacted and unheard voices to create enhanced social justice
- to equip and support youth to create impactful, and often-times innovative, initiatives so that their communities are better able to adapt, mitigate, and/or become resilient to the impacts of climate change
- to deepen the relationship of youth to their community
- to create a legacy peer supported network of resilient, empowered and activated youth across the country (REACT - Youth Climate Network)
Waterlution’s Youth 4 Resilient Communities is funded by Canada Service Corps, a national movement that empowers youth aged 15–30 to gain experience and build important skills while giving back to their community. Learn more at Canada.ca/CanadaServiceCorps.
