{"id":12984,"date":"2018-09-28T13:08:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T17:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ojen.ca?p=12984"},"modified":"2018-09-28T13:33:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T17:33:19","slug":"newcomer-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ojen.ca\/en\/newcomer-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Trillium Foundation Funds Newcomer Youth Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OJEN is pleased to announce funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) for a new project to support newcomer youth take leadership roles within their communities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Newcomer youth have a special and trusted relationship with their parents and other adult family members. They speak the family&#8217;s maternal language and have stronger English-language skills.&nbsp; For this reason they often they act as information providers and interpreters for their families. When serious legal problems arise, especially those relating to immigration status,&nbsp;this role can be stressful.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Helping Youth Help Communities<\/h3>\n<p>Over the next year, OJEN will engage newcomer youth in the design and delivery of 3 community-based public legal education (PLE) events in Toronto.&nbsp; These events will provide reliable information on immigration and refugee law for their families and community members.&nbsp; &nbsp;Youth participants will spend 6-8 weeks organizing the event with assistance from OJEN staff, community partners and justice sector volunteers .&nbsp; They will choose the content, handle logistics and promote the event to their community.&nbsp; They will also host the event and evaluate its success.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Newcomer Community Justice project provides immigration and refugee law information to communities that need it most while at the same time developing leadership skills among newcomer youth.<\/p>\n<p>OJEN is grateful for the support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next year, OJEN will engage newcomer youth in the design and delivery of 3 community-based public legal education (PLE) events in Toronto.\u00a0 These events will provide reliable information on immigration and refugee law for their families and community members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":323,"featured_media":13028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","inline_featured_image":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ojen-news"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/ojen.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Girl-in-red-e1538155973211.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Nadine Demoe","author_link":"https:\/\/ojen.ca\/en\/author\/nadine\/"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3 - 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