Category Archives: Advocacy
The Youth Summit Team has identified key messages and asks for the specific audience of leaders and decision makers that will be present at the Provincial Summit. They refined the messages and asks from a huge collection of barriers, benefits and opportunities they identified over the course of our two Generation Action Youth Summit meetings.
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The Generation Action Youth Summit has been incredible so far, but now the youth summit team needs your help to make their vision a reality! The youth summit team believes in the power of youth and they believe in the power of their voices speaking out for the activity opportunities all youth need to be healthy. But, they don’t want to stop at just their voices being heard.
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With fewer than 15% of Saskatchewan children and youth being active enough each day, it’s more important than ever to encourage an active lifestyle. We need to tell one another good job when we choose to be active. We need to remind each other of the benefits of activity for our health, nicer communities and [...]
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The second meeting of the Generation Action Youth Summit is set to take place on Feb 11 & 12th. The participants and Saskatchewan in motion staffers are all so pumped to reconvene and keep the momentum rolling. At part II of the Generation Action Youth Summit we will be developing our presentation for the Provincial [...]
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The first ever Generation Action Youth Summit is in the book folks! The Summit brought together youth from across Saskatchewan who have something to say about physical activity, ranging in age from 16 – 23. The participants applied to be a part of this historic occasion. A group of 9 youth, including Graham and I [...]
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Saskatchewan in motion is looking for idealistic, passionate and creative youth (16 – 23), who want to be a part of a story with us. We’re looking for leaders to be a voice for Saskatchewan youth, to be a conduit of change for physical activity choices in the province, and to be an active role [...]
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On Monday it was time for the Lieutenant Governor’s Leadership Forum again. We jumped at the chance to work with a group of young people who have identified themselves as youth leaders; we are all about youth leadership at SIM! We took this opportunity to fill these young leaders in on our simple plan for how they can begin to make a difference for physical activity!
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in motion This year at the Student Leadership Conference in Meadow Lake Saskatchewan in motion set up a trade show booth and delivered presentations to the young delegates. A team from base camp including, Graham Richardson, Don Radcliff-Smith and me, set out to make sure all of the delegates are aware of the physical [...]
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Fresh Meat: Julie’s 1st Guest Blog Hey my name is Julie and I’m an in motion staff member just like Kenji. I’m stepping in as guest blogger this weekas Kenji gets ready for the Student Leadership conference in Meadow Lake this Thursday. 2010 Student Leadership Conference Some of you may be wondering what the Student [...]
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On Tuesday (Aug 24th) Saskatchewan in motion (SIM) staffers met up with an eager group of people power enthusiasts for an active transportation flash mob.
It was the second flash mob I was involved with organizing for Sask in motion. We took an entirely different approach with this one, different concept, recruitment plan, filming strategy; the only thing that was similar was location.
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