The Newcomer Youth Civic Engagement (NYCE) Project was youth-led, embedded in the CCR Youth Network's principles, and focused on offering newcomer youth an opportunity to be leaders in their communities and tackle issues that affect them. The project aimed to help newcomer youth from across Canada connect and engage with their communities. The NYCE initiative identified key issues for newcomer youth and supported them in exploring ways to address these issues within their communities.

While the project is based on the youth-led principle, it was also important that the youth involved gain leadership skills within the right conditions, through the support of organizations that can offer resources and guidance to the newcomer youth involved. Read about the local projects and organisations below! And scroll down for a breakdown of how the project worked.

 

Newcomer youth participated in NYCE through two main activities:

 

1. Local projects

The NYCE project included thirteen local projects across Canada, listed below, each of them involving newcomer youth 16-24 years old. Together they consulted newcomer youth in their communities on key issues and barriers, and explored ways of addressing them creatively, and developed tools to engage relevant decision makers.

Depending on their own realities and ideas, local projects took different forms to address the issues they identified in each community. 

 

 

 

Have a look at the Myth Busting Cartoons that came out of the local projects here!

 

 

Youth Leader	Project	Location	Supporting Organization
Narges Samimi & Tenzin Phantok	Making a Change!	New Westminster, BC	Immigrant Services Society of BC
Naol Kassa	Newcomers are Lit!	Edmonton, AB	Multicultural Health Brokers
Saleh Alimasi	Your Ideal Winnipeg	Winnipeg, MA	Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba
Obada Baghdadi	The Unexpected Journey	Windsor, ON	YMCA of Western Ontario
Sally Hammad	Stories of Newcomer Youth	London, ON	Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support & Integration
Huda Al'Obaidi and members of Crossing Borders	Crossing Borders	Kitchener, ON	Mennonite Coalition for Refugee Support
Julia Salmon	Tearing Down the Walls	Toronto, ON	FCJ Refugee Centre
Humaima Ashfaque	Adversity 2 Action	Toronto, ON	York University Centre for Refugee Studies
Keshav Bajgai	Newcomer Youth Voice	Ottawa, ON	Youth Program of the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization
Hicham Khanafer	Conver-Station FM	Montreal, QC	Centre Social d’aide aux immigrants
Justine Dangbe, Rene Rukundo, Arnaud Kazamwali and Pierre Dushime	Together in Action	Joliette, QC	Lanaudière Regional Committee for International Development Education
Noussaiba Dehimi	Fredericton Youth	Fredericton, NB	Multicultural Association of Fredericton
Milia Aidemouni	Facing Issues & Barriers	Saint John, NB	YMCA of Greater Saint John

 

 

2. A national Youth Action Gathering (April 2017)

Follow the link to read the report on the YAG!

Congratulations to all and welcome to the CCR Youth Network!