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….
This summer Project Respect will be hosting evening gatherings for you to hang out and chat and take action about the ways that cyberviolence impacts you! As we’ve been doing our consent workshops in schools, we hear a lot about what’s happening in your lives. Over and over, participants have told us that hurtful and…
This workshop will focus on the benefits, uses and harvest of wild rose hips (nootka rose) hips. We will start the workshop with some wild rose 101 knowledge and then work as groups to make different wild rose tea blends and rose hip jam. The second half of the workshop, we will host a facilitated…
Are you curious about ways to help your relationships feel more consensual, and learn more about sexualized violence? Join Project Reclaim and Project Respect for a fun (yes, actually!) and engaging workshop on consent, sexualized violence, and how to have awesome relationships of all sorts. Using fun games, discussion, and other activities, we’ll work on…
On behalf of Project Reclaim and Project Respect, We would like to thank all the ones that participated in our workshop last Friday so far the best turn out we’ve had all summer, and I feel like it was a very important thing to learn in our community. In the workshop we talked about sexual…
Many of you know that Project Reclaim has been working in the Saanich reserve. Doing land restoration work and, working with youth from the community, in the beginning of August we had a couple events focusing on getting kids from HELEMITE involved as we got the kids to help plant and transplant flowers, raspberries, strawberries, and kale. The event…
It’s that time of year again! Time to think about how to ensure school spaces are as awesome as they can be, and to gather with our peers to help make our communities safer and more consensual! … well… maybe it’s always time for the second one… A huge part of Project Respect is doing workshops…
I am Graham Olsen I will be working with Project Respect and we will be doing multiple things like cleaning up around the Tsartlip Reserve, taking walks with Elders from the community and, learning more about the Native Culture and Indigenous people, I will be partnered with Addie Elliott and Beangka Elliott. This is a…
Project Respect is partnering with Beangka Elliott and the Tsartlip community to initiate a youth led land restoration project that will focus on public spaces in Tsartlip. Together Beangka, Graham and myself will work on invasive species removal, garbage removal, native plant restoration, plant identification, plant propagation and native plant harvesting. We will also have the…
Addie is 20 years of age, she is from the traditional territory of WSANEC. She has previous experience working with the Victoria Sexual Assault Centre as part of their youth led Food Justice project, and is now working with a new youth led project in the Tsartlip community called “Project Reclaim”. She is very community…
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…
It’s been a while since you’ve heard from us here at Project Respect! We’ve had a very busy winter and spring, and before I head off for a couple of weeks, I wanted to give you some updates! Core Training in January I had the amazing opportunity to help coordinate and facilitate Core Training this…