A couple of members from our leadership team who brought some colors to brighten up the event 💖💚💜🤎💙💛💛❤

Left: Ajirioghene Evi-Cobbinah (Executive Director)

Right: Tafadzwa Takaendesa (Accounting/Operations Personnel)

Curriculum Background

Leadership education must create an environment that facilitates collaboration, analysis of issues, self-awareness, professional skills and capacities, and exploration of new leadership approaches and behaviors (Doherty, 2003).

KMFW acknowledges that our training/workshop (Participatory Educational Workshop: Leadership Development) for racialized/newcomer youth to Canada was informed by our current in-house leadership programs for Black identifying youth and additional strategies from CITY (Creative Institute of Toronto’s Young) Leaders: Building Youth Leadership in Toronto and Multicultural Youth Leadership by SOAR, which provide supplementary context for this training.

Overview of Our Leadership Workshop:

There is a vast need to remove all barriers to leadership development opportunities for Black youth who reside in our region, especially newcomer youth who are English language learners (ELLs). Our work empowers participants to share their perspectives and voices, invest in the discovery and development of leadership skills they can offer to their city and school communities.

MPP (Kitchener chapter) Laura Mae Lindo was joined by Irwin Elman, Former Child & Youth Advocate, and our Executive Director at Kind Minds Family Wellness, Ajirioghene Evi-Cobbinah, to discuss the overrepresentation of Black and Indigenous youth in care in the Waterloo Region.

It was an honor to partake in the Moving Black Lives Forward program at the YMCA of Three Rivers Waterloo Region last week! We would like to thank the YMCA for having us and look forward to more collaborations in the future

On Saturday, June 11th community members joined KMFW, the City of Kitchener, and other organizations to create some fun and a safe space for racialized communities to experience the joys of cycling while learning new skills from trained instructors and going for small group rides around the city.

Hosted by Rohingya Centre of Canada, Ethiopian Association of KW, Association of Liberian Immigrants in Kitchener Environs, African Family Revival Organization, Kind Minds Family Wellness, City of Kitchener, Cycling into the Future, and Red Raccoon Bike Rescue.

Young Entrepreneur at their Pop Up this summer!

Owner of Juno Handmade Jewelry (Destiny) and the best Sales Support (Tala) any young business owner could ask for 👏🏾

KMFW congratulates Destiny and wishes her success today 🙌🏾

Visit

https://lnkd.in/d2zDfJTw to learn more about Juno Jewelry. We have some videos on our stories as well 😊

If you are around or at the market today, please swing by and show them some love ❤️

Items:

*Waist beads

*Waist chains

*Necklaces

*Anklets

Ready-to-go items and customized pieces are available 👍🏽

Side note:

Young Entrepreneur Destiny is one of the recipients of the SUMMER COMPANY Grant (Waterloo Region Small Business Centre) 🥳 @waterlooregionsbc

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