CYC Podcast

Sophia Yang speaks with Wolfgang about Threading Change, “a youth-led not-for-profit organization envisioning a future where fashion is ethical and circular, rooted in justice with climate, gender, and racial equity at the forefront.” In this motivating conversation Sophia discusses relationships between fashion, racism, environmental destruction, and what can be done to change these current realities.

This conversation is part of our ongoing partnership with Taking it Global

For more information on the programs we provide visit: http://risingyouth.ca 

See here for more information about Threading Change

GET INVOLVED WITH THREADING CHANGE: 

1. Join #ClothesBusters month: Threading Change's Spring Cleaning educational campaign here to demystify and bust popular clothing myths! 

2. Threading Change is hiring! (unpaid for now, paid to start in summer)

3. Sign up for Threading Change's newsletter to get resources and stay up to date with local campaigns 

OTHER WAYS TO GET INVOLVED: 

1. Join the global Fashion Revolution Week and ask: #WHOMADEMYCLOTHES? (Fashion Revolution's website also has tons of other great reading, organizing, and campaigning resources as well!)

2. Join the #PayUp movement

3. Check out Slow Factory Foundation's AMAZING Fashion Education courses for BIPOC

4. Sign the petition to end Uyghur forced labour in China

READINGS/RESOURCES: 

1. Blog post Sophia wrote on why we need to start Threading Change 

2. Threading Change's global launch webinar

3. How to Buy Clothes Built to Last by Kendra Pierre-Louis

4. Vox article: Why is it so hard for clothing manufacturers to pay a living wage? 

5. Gone Thrifting: How to Build A Better Thrifting System by Emily Stochl

6. What A Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050

7. Global Fashion Agenda's Fashion on Climate report

PODCASTS/FILMS: 

1. Film: Unravel 

2. The True Cost (all on Youtube for free!) 

3. Conscious Chatter 

4. Wardrobe Crisis 

5. Fashion is a great teacher

Welcome back to Project Outsiders. If you are returning, thank you so much for coming back and tuning into our podcast. We really appreciate all of  your support and joining us along on our journey to improving the foster care system. For those who are new here, Welcome to the Foster Care Experience Podcast. We are a youth lead social organization that is trying to bridge the gap between youth in care with decision makers. We are all youth from care who have been pushed by our experience to ensure we see changes to a disconnected system. We are all incredibly passionate advocates and activists and want to create paths and opportunities for youth in care.

In today's conversation we want to talk about mental health and the use of substances. For a lot of youth in care that is the number one tool we would resort to as a way to cope with our situation. It is not often that we have people in our life that are able to teach us healthy coping skills so we go with the ones taught to us by our peers who are also struggling. This becomes a complicated cycle to get out of once it has been habituated into your daily routine. When mental health becomes more of an issue the more easy it is for youth to fall deeper into an addiction. There are a lot of stigmas that come with having an addiction and today we want to learn more about how to prevent and overcome them. Here to tell us about her journey overcoming a global pandemic is Keona Sehmi.

(Keona’s Bio)

Keona Sehmi is a first voice advocate and participates in numerous committees as a youth advisor. Some of the committees she sits on includes the youth for change steering committee with OACAS, youth said through Halton CAS, She is an advisor for OACAS covid-19 mental health toolkit, and she is a peer mentor for the futures life skills and mentorship program. She plans to take a year off after she graduates for self growth and recovery, but plans to go to school for nursing to become a psychiatric nurse at mohawk. 

On this week’s episode we have Vivian Patruno interviews one of our last guest of the season Saif Khan a youth a part of the My Voice, a magazine and ngo focused on the Muslim Community. Saif talks about his experience with #RisingYouth and how they helped him with developing their quarter one program called My Voice Academy, an Open Mic event. Saif goes over how they developed their Youth Journalism and Media workshop to help educate youth on how they can increase their advocacy capacity.

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For more informations about the programs we offer please visit https://www.risingyouth.ca 

The last known residential home for Indigenous people closed down in 1996, “it wasn’t that long ago” says Kia Lesage. A lot of damage has been done on the indegenious community and we can see its reflection in the child welfare system. It may not come as a surprise to you but Child Protection Services look very different the further you go from the city or more densely populated areas. The programming and supports are very limited in rural areas and youth are heavily affected by its unavailability. Things like addiction and mental health programs are scarce and these necessary programs are more needed than children’s Aid  intervention and separation of children from their community. Today we hear and learn from kia who shares her story and insight to solutions. 

Kia’s Socials 

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On this Episode of #RisingYouth Salvatore speaks with Riya Mehta founder of FutureShot Factory 

This platform of websites is meant to educate students, especially young adults about the importance of combining SDG based issues with the use of technology for social good and change. The idea came to fruition when I realized that information isnt broken down properly for youth to understand, and being young myself I wanted a platform I could turn to better understand social impact goals through the lens of technology. During my years at The Knowledge Society (a teen accelerator program) I built this idea by constructing different websites, each tackling a different SDG goal by solving it with technology. Right now, I have around 3-4 active websites that discuss the importance of SDG goals with innovation, hosted on the domain futureshotfactory.com under projects. The future of this platform will contain more opportunities for youth go interact with social justice mentors to receive the help they need and design better solutions to problems.

For more information on the programs we provide please visit https://www.risingyouth.ca and https://www.tigweb.org 

Hey CYC Podcast Listeners, First I would like to say thank you for welcoming the Project outsiders team on board you’re regularly schedule programming. We love all the work that has happened prior to us and we hope to continue to provide unique conversations for our listeners as we continue to make new episodes. If you haven’t yet please follow us on social media and check out Project Outsiders on Spotify to follow our new page as we have exclusive bonus content you can’t find anywhere else on there. We were suffering from some technical difficulties with our upload schedule lately but our episodes are still going to be posted on the CYC and C2Y network alongside the rising youth podcast which is finishing its second season shortly. 

We have a lot of new episodes we are sure you will love to hear and we are also in the process of developing our second season of the Project Outsiders. Please be sure to follow us on instagram, twitter, Facebook, linkedin and YouTube at project outsiders and we look forward to continuing to share the youth perspective. This is Chanice McAnuff signing out and well be back to posting this Friday!

What do black youth need to put an end to generations after generations of poverty? Where did it all begin? Why is this still and issue? The overrepresentation of black youth in care in Ontario is staggering and the impacts on the family is detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the children caught in between. We sat down and had a very insightful conversation about what black families really need to be able to heal from our history. Troy elleston, an academic and business professional, educates us on the importance of having representation of black leaders within our communities and acquiring mentorship to pass on these skills and important life lessons to our youth.