A training workshop for Yoga Teachers who work with or wish to work with youth at risk and street kids. Please register through OM-4-YOUTH online, or mail/drop-off registration at The Union Yoga Center sometime over the next week as the first class is quick approaching!
schedule:
- Saturday November 14th, 1:00-4:30pm (3.5 hours)
- Sunday November 15th, 1:00-4:30pm (3.5 hours)
- Saturday November 28th, 1:00-5:30pm (4.5 hours)
- Sunday November 29th, 1:00-4:30pm (3.5 hours)
cost:
$175.00 (includes manual, t-shirt, technical and program support)
description:
- The OM4YOUTH curriculum provides you with specific yoga asana, class seqencing & creative arts components for program development for all youth age groups
- Learn about critical child developmental stages
- Learn to identify high risk behaviours and challenges that youth experience within their communities
- Learn to plan, develop & teach classes for specific youthyouthyouth detention populations in: foster care, shelters, drop in/community centres, schools, transitional housing and
- Join us for this 15-hour journey of learning and exploration of how you can be of service through the practice of yoga.
message from the training teacher Wendy Webster - who has worked with at-risk youth in social service agencies and in private and public school communities throughout Ontario for over 20 years:
"I have just completed the Calgary training and it was awesome... and inquiries are arriving in from social agencies throughout Toronto for our programs - so let spread the word and make this training spectacular.... then we can start offering our classes and programs to youth that need
yoga the most!"
Wendy Webster
background:
It is no mystery what we as teachers can offer to the health of an individual and their community - we see the benefits everyday, to which other solutions don't begin to measure against... I am not sure yet how this street youth yoga training will apply at The Union, but it will certainly be inspiring and empowering considering these facts, and I look forward to creating programming based on my learnings with Wendy this November:
- It has been estimated that one-third of Canada's homeless population are youth. That means that close to 65,000 young people are without a place to call home at some time during the year.
- Abuse and neglect are two of the major reasons why young people leave home. Several studies show that nearly 70% of homeless youth have experienced some form of sexual, physical or emotional abuse.
- Homeless youth are exposed to significantly more physical abuse, sickness, injury and mental health problems than their non-homeless peers, with often long-term implications for their self-esteem, relationships, and ability to become self-supporting. A Quebec study found that the death rate among homeless youth was 11 times higher than in the general population.
- The cost of keeping a youth in the shelter system is not easily defined, but estimates are between $30,000 - $40,000 per year
- Keeping just one youth in detention adds up to over $250 a day, or $100,000 a year
(ref: Gordon Laird, Shelter, Homelessness in a Growth Economy, Canada’s 21st Century Paradox, A Report for the Sheldon Chumir
Foundation for Ethics in Leadership, 2007)
