HeartWood Centre for Community Youth Development is a registered charitable organization whose mission is youth engagement for positive community change. We work with youth to develop their skills and confidence as community leaders. We also train and coach adults to meaningfully engage youth.
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HeartWood is about having a place where you belong and can be yourself while finding new opportunities to be involved in the community. A place where you feel comfortable enough to discover who you are as an individual, [and to] find and explore your passions. A place where friends become close enough to be considered family. Youth Participant, Fall 2011 Alternate Ways to give to HeartWood Donations to HeartWood are always greatly appreciated. They allow us to focus on our mission and offer great programs and support to youth and those working with youth. The cost of equipment and office supplies can add up quickly. If you have seen our office, you know that we work diligently to get the most out of all our supplies to stretch our dollars as far as possible! It is definitely time to replace and/or upgrade some items. Having modern, efficient equipment helps us to do our work more efficiently. We strive to create a safe and comfortable space for youth -- as well as our staff! In-kind and cash donations help us to achieve this, as project funding often excludes these core expenses. In addition, in-kind donations allow us to focus our proposal writing on programs rather than equipment.
In addition, HeartWood has recently started a Youth Media Team that creates video for others in the community as well as captures youth-led success stories. In order to properly train and support these youth and their projects, we need high-quality equipment. Please consider making a cash donation to HeartWood and/or review our Wish List to make an in-kind donation of a high-quality item listed below. We offer charitable tax receipts for all cash donations and for donations of new items (in their original packaging accompanied with a receipt).
HeartWood Wish List:
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Last Updated January 7th, 2013
Leading Innovative & Engaging Youth Programs at Tatamagouche Centre Thurs.-Sun., May 27 - 30 at 7:00 p.m. (end Sun. at 1:00 p.m.) Leading Innovative & Engaging Youth Programs. This training is for youth and young adults interested in learning facilitation and group dynamics processes to enhance their abilities as camp counsellors, youth workers, mentors, volunteers or recreation staff. Offered in partnership with the Tatamagouche Centre. For more information visit www.tatacentre.ca, or call the Tatamagouche Centre at 1-800-218-2220 or 902-657-2231 ------------------------------------------ Skills2Action Summer Leadership Program HeartWood Centre for Community Youth Development is seeking 12 young community leaders to participate in oursummer leadership program, Skills2Action. Skills2Action is a fun way to develop skills for leadership, employability, achieving personal goals, and to connect to a network of others working to make Nova Scotia a better place to live. Dates: July 12-14 & August 9-11 If you want to join us, please complete this form (in .docx or .pdf) and send it back before June 17th. For more information contact us at:902-444-5885 ryan(at)heartwood(dot)ns(dot)ca ------------------------------------------------- 2013 is HeartWood's 25th anniversary. Check back soon for celebration announcements! ------------------------------------------------- Want to know what we did in 2011-2012? Check out our annual report.
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Youth-Adult Partnerships
Several years of collaboration between HeartWood, the NS Department of Community Services and young people connected to DCS in Bridgewater has lead to some amazing change in how youth and adults partner to make positive community change. Watch the inspiring video (link below) on what can be accomplished when youth and adults cooperate around a common goal!
*** Youth-Adult Partnership VIDEO *** Bridgewater Placemaking HeartWood & various community contributors have been transforming through various youth-led citizen engagement projects of the last few years. Check out the latest from these South Shore changemakers! *** Bridgewater Placemaking VIDEO ***
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Acclaimed Dystopian YA Author Jo Treggiari Publishes Short Memoir Piece in Support of Local Charity Halifax, NS (October 9, 2012) — Fierce Ink Press Co-Op Ltd. publishes its second Fierce Short, Love You Like Suicide, by author Jo Treggiari. Available online October 9, Love You Like Suicide is a story about love, friendship, drug abuse and self-discovery. “Although I am many years away from being a teenager now, I still remember the intensity of my life then,” Treggiari says. “Everything felt new and potent and important: the choices I made, the life-long friendships I forged, the mistakes I made. I think that it is during those years, especially for me the ones between age 17 and 21, that I was really discovering who I was and what I truly wanted and what mattered.” Twenty percent of proceeds from all sales of Love You Like Suicide will go to Heartwood Centre in Halifax. Treggiari chose Heartwood as her charity “because they work with kids in the community, and help them find their individuality, their passions, and also their place within society.” Find out more about Jo Treggiari's works or buy a copy of the book here:
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