Toronto Youth! LIFT is inviting YOU to:

Empower yourselves, create a better city and a better future

“Your Rights in Action” Workshops – Free Training starts after July 15 (TBA)

You can help your community by learning:

- Human Rights and Democracy Skills for organizing a campaign-for-change

- Leadership skills including effective communication, planning, and evaluation

- Networking and Social Media Based Organizing (using Internet to organize)

- The role of media/alternative media in a Human Rights campaign-for-change

- How to access and speak with politicians during the Provincial Election

- How to work to educate public and decision-makers to make change happen

Great Summer Experience, Where You Can:

-Gain experience/references for resume and fulfill high school co-op hours

-Learn how to organize and lead workshops, work-groups, and campaigns

-Meet other Toronto Youth and Share Ideas to improve your community/city

-Learn how governments work & become an effective community advocate

-Participate in the Annual Summer Social-Justice Retreat (Algonquin Park)

We also provide:

-Free TTC

-Free Refreshments

-Free Childcare

-Free summer concerts

-Free movie nights

-Meet Great People

Two workshop locations: North Toronto and Central Toronto/East York

*locations to be defined based on location of registered participants

For more information contact Jorge Pineda, LIFT Youth Rights Project Manager

Email: youth@lift.to www.lift.to Tel: 647-854-9028 (M-F from 10am-6pm)

The L.I.F.T./ Youth Rights Project is a youth-led group, supported by experienced activists, whose purpose is to educate and organize the next generation of community leaders, and help youth-groups strengthen their democracy and community change projects.

Your Rights in Action is a Train- the-trainer workshop series for diverse urban youth to develop their youth community organizing skills. Youth will learn about how Human Rights and Democracy work, and will learn related skills including: effective communication, social-issue analysis, leadership, group facilitation, and public speaking.