Event Title:

Organization:

  Community/Volunteerism

  Nonprofit Event Calendar

Start Date:

  12/3/2009

End Date:

  12/3/2009

Start Time:

  6:30 pm

End Time:

  9:30 pm

Event Info: 

  Come hear the cry of a community under siege. Come hear the voice of a community determined to find hope that would lead to change. It affects us all – one way or the other, but together “yes we can” make the change needed.

Invited guest speaker, Alvin Curling, former Speaker of the Legislature, will present findings from the Review of the Root Causes of Youth Violence and share recommendations of how to continue building safer, stronger communities. Participants of the forum will be given the space to voice their views on the report and identify solutions.

If local problems are to be addressed on local turf and if solutions are to grow out of local strengths, it follows that residents and local agencies must have significant roles in setting policies and priorities. These roles strengthen the community, which, in turn, leads to the stronger community itself reducing the impact of the roots, while beginning to remove them. (The Review of the Roots of Youth Violence, 2008)

A collaboration of The Consulate General of Jamaica, The Jamaican Canadian Association, The Jamaican Diaspora Canada Foundation, Jane/Finch Community and Family Centre, Recognize the Real, Tropicana Community Services, Youth Association for Academics, Athletics and Character Education (YAAACE).

Location:

  Jamaican Canadian Association

Room:

Address:

  995 Arrow Road

Phone:

  416-746-5772

City:

  Toronto

State/Province:

  Ontario