Eco-Ambassadors

Issue: Environmental Responsibility

Grant Amount: $39,090.00
Toronto, ON
Year Funded: 2011
Organization: EVERGREEN

The Eco-Ambassadors project will provide in-depth service learning opportunities for 30 high school students with learning challenges, focused on developing their understanding of environmental responsibility through the lenses of food systems, active transportation and urban ecology.  Participants will explore human impacts on the environment through youth-driven community assessments, intensive hands-on workshops and activities, and the creation and dissemination of a final community service project, webpage, community workshops, and celebration. Youth will graduate from the program equipped with new ideas and leadership skills that will allow them to effect change and promote sustainable living within their communities.

The Eco-Ambassadors Program addresses the issue of Environmental Responsibility by engaging youth participants in a collaborative, youth-driven exploration of the impact of humans on the environment, grounded in their immediate realities and surroundings. The 3 modules work together holistically, equipping youth with the knowledge, skills, and experience to be better citizens and environmental advocates and leaders in their communities—one small action at a time.  At the end of the project, the YMCA of Greater Toronto will use the systems youth have put in place to address immediate gaps, while the strategies and resources disseminated through the web-site and community celebration will create a ripple effect within the families and communities of everyone who works at and visits the YMCA Centre for Community.

Project Updates

Eco Ambassadors in the Evergreen News!

The State Farm Youth Advisory Board's generous contribution for the Eco Ambassadors program is highlighted in Evergreen's Winter 2012 newsletter.

http://www.evergreen.ca/newsletters/egnews/2012-02/?utm_source=egnews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=egnews2012_02

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