[Wamvan] Call for facilitators - Youth and Gender Media Project, Check Your Head

[Natalie Hill]

Awesome opportunity with a very cool organization.

Check Your Head is looking for facilitators for their Youth and Gender
Media Project.

Original text copied from this
link<http://checkyourhead.org/blog/apply-to-be-a-facilitator-for-the-youth-and-gender-media-project/>
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After an amazing first year, Check Your Head is recruiting youth
facilitators for the Youth and Gender Media Project. We are excited to
invite new youth applicants to participate and gain anti-oppression and
facilitation training, along with knowledge-building experience on gender
based violence, and mentorship opportunities.  For a description of roles
and responsibilities, please *click
here<http://checkyourhead.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Youth-and-Gender-Media-Program-Description.pdf>
*.

Participants in the Youth and Gender Media Project learn about themes
related to gender such as identity, power, and privilege. Through a
critical lens, participants explore how the media constructs messages about
gender and often perpetuates violence of all forms. The project also
empowers participants with the knowledge to take action and address
gender-based violence.

The Youth and Gender Media Project volunteers attend monthly gatherings to
connect and engage in dialogue.

*I find that every meeting I walk away with a new understanding of our
society and learn something new about myself in the process.
*

The monthly gatherings allow volunteers to exchange ideas and knowledge
with their community mentors and guest facilitators. One participant’s
reflection on a gathering focused on storytelling was,

*It was fascinating seeing how individuals built from such diverse
experiences and backgrounds are so much more than appearances suggest. I
was reminded of how deep and complex human identity is and how these
complexities affect the lives we live, the opportunities we do or don’t
have. In one way or another we all interact with systems of oppression no
matter what race, gender, class, ability, etc.*

Over the first year of the Youth and Gender Media Project, Check Your Head
with the help of volunteers, developed our new “Gender Representations”
workshop. Volunteer facilitators had the opportunity to facilitate
workshops with diverse groups of youth in the community.

Some comments from workshop participants include: *“I learned that
influences in the media actually affect the self-esteem of many people and
I realized that stereotypes are used everyday” *and, *“I learned that
society paints women and men in certain ways and makes everyone think this
is the way it has to be. It is great to speak against these issues.”*

The Youth and Gender Media Project is a great opportunity for youth
interested in facilitation, gender, media, and/or violence prevention to
connect with each other and engage their community in dialogue and action
against gender based violence perpetuated by the media. To read more about
our volunteers’ first-hand experiences in the programs, check out their blog
posts. <http://checkyourhead.org/blog/gender/>
*Program Description*

*Program components:*
- Facilitation and leadership training
- Anti-oppression training
- Networking and community building opportunities with young activists
- Supported opportunities to take action on social and environmental
justice issues, including talking to hundreds of youth about gender, media,
and violence prevention
- Mentorship from woman-identified leaders in the community
- Monthly dialogue groups to meet with mentors and fellow facilitators

*Responsibilities:*
- Participate in 1 weekend of facilitation and leadership training
- Attend 4 evening meetings
- Co-facilitate 4 workshops in high school classrooms
- Communicate on an ongoing basis with CYH staff and community mentors

To download more application details, please *click
here<http://checkyourhead.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Youth-and-Gender-Media-Program-Description.pdf>
*.

*The closing date for applications is:* Friday, September 14th

*To apply:*
Please e-mail a statement of interest (max. 500 words) and copy of your
resume to kyla [at] checkyourhead.org; Attn: Kyla Brophy; Subject heading:
Media and Gender Facilitator.

*People of all genders are encouraged to apply.*

This project <http://checkyourhead.org/projects/> has been funded  by Status
of Women Canada <http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/index-eng.html>.




Check Your Head

Check Your Head (CYH) is a youth-driven not-for-profit organization based
in Vancouver, British Columbia that educates and activates young people on
various social issues. Founded in 1999, we encourage young people to
understand and take action for social, economic and environmental justice.

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