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Rhizome is Project Respects youth-led social action camp. Find out more!
Rhizome is Project Respects youth-led social action camp. Find out more!
Project Respect brings together youth and adults to create awareness and dialogue about sexualized violence by encouraging critical thinking about root causes such as gender expectations and stereotypes, systems of power, and the ongoing colonization of the lands and systems we live in.
We are very excited to announce that we are offering our third Youth Social Action Camp, a two night sleepover conference at Camp Barnard. We are inviting youth to explore why sexualized violence and exclusion happens, identify issues that are relevant in their local communities and create youth-led social action projects to address these issues….
When a trauma occurs in a person’s life, it is often held in the body, as Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk writes in his book, The Body Keeps the Score. Trauma actually rewires the brain that can causes constant states of stress or numbness, which lead to a host of different physical problems, such as…
Project Respect is in their Knowledge Mobilization year and a lot has happened in the last six months from the amazing work with our School and Community Programs. A Knowledge Mobilization Launch will take place on September 11th- 22nd, 2023. During this time you can expect to see us sharing Youth Council’s Zine, BYE Table…
Summer is upon us, and that means that I’m out of the classroom and into summer programming mode! This year Project Respect is partnering with Project Reclaim for our summer programming. We’ll be posting more details about Project Reclaim soon, but for now I would just like to welcome Addie Elliott and Graham Olsen as our…
We’re all special in our own ways, and part of our specialties is people’s privilege. So essentially we’re all privileged in our own ways. I wish I could end it there, but we can’t, so let’s plow forwards through this wildness together. So what is privilege? Borrowing a (paraphrased) quote from a friend: “privilege is…
The Project Respect Team (Phoebe, Laura, Sara, Annaléa and Allison) are thankful to the VSAC staff and Community Partners who made it to our Lunch & Learn where we showcased all the products created by our youth groups (BYE & YC), and shared more about the impact and key findings of the research done in…