Finding ‘A Way Home’ for Homeless Youth
It makes sense. If you hope to reduce homelessness, a good place to start is by reducing youth homelessness. That’s because statistics show that the majority of homeless adults first experience […]
Photography Project Gives Homeless Youth a Voice
Peterborough, Ontario’s, Youth Emergency Shelter (YES) for homeless youth is “near and dear” to Crystal Hebert — it saved her life. Now 26 years old with her own professional photography […]
Making a Difference in Nogojiwanong with Youth for Water
Rain gardens that filter pollutants; shoreline naturalizations; aid for at-risk species; traditional medicine food gardens; storm and ground water management with low-impact solutions –it’s all part of Youth for Water […]
VOICES from the HEART
Poems and Stories of Strength/Resiliency from Space/Time RESILIENT SOUL by Gay Josephine Valles MY SILENCE by N. Wali COZY by Sasha Patterson SONG of the FIR TREE by Mary E. McCullough […]
The Power of Music: Afghan Children’s Songbook Project Re-Introduces Music to Once-Silent Country
By Melodie McCullough Imagine a world without music; a home where a mother cannot hum to her baby; a house in which children’s toys that make sounds are banished; a […]
Gender-Neutral Toys for All the Kids in Your Life
Wondering what toys to buy your children, nieces and nephews this Christmas that won’t send a stereotyped message? We’ve come across lots of suggestions to help you out, thanks to […]
DON’T RAPE . . . And Other Things Your Kids Should Hear as They Leave Home for School
Second in a Series in a Partnership between JOURNEY Magazine and Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre By Melodie McCullough Are you sending your child off to a post-secondary school? Do you know that it is during the first eight weeks of classes in September and October that the majority of sexual […]
Camp fYrefly For LGBTQ Youth Is A “life-saver”. . . And It’s Coming To Trent University, Peterborough, This Summer.
By the age of four, transgender youth Marissa Taylor was already having suicidal thoughts. ‘I want to die so I can go to heaven and talk to God. I […]
FOR THE WATER
Edward George and the Nibi Onji Canoe Journey “What more must we do?” “What is the water asking of us?” ” What must we come to understand in […]
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