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Communities Against Violence Everywhere
Committee Meeting
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
CAG Boardroom
Attendees: Tass Tsakamas, Chair
Tasleem Hudani, Vice Chair
Kim Bradley, Coordinator, Recreation Programs
Paul Crawford
Rowena Kirk
Shawna Mutton, Coordinator, Community Sustainability
Kwan Ng
Dianne Surman
Absent: Samantha Teney
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1. Welcome
The Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting.
2. Recommendations
The Chair advised that the next step in our process is to
develop recommendations to Council. He asked each
committee member to give their recommendations. They are
as follows:
. Use the last half hour of our monthly CAVE meetings to
invite youth serving agencies to present their programs to
the committee
. Hold public forums twice a year to promote community
awareness of specific themes affecting youth and the
Pickering community
. Provide opportunities for youth service providers to network
in order to get them to start working outside of their silos -
identify how groups can work together to deliver workshops
and forums
. Ask agencies to provide us with examples of service
success stories to increase the profile of their agency
. Implement a mentorship program for youth at risk
. Develop an online resource centre for youth which includes
specific programs and services in our community
. The top hurdle most of the aqencies are facinq is fundinq -
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generate a letter to the Minister of Community and Social
Services prepared by the CAVE committee and endorsed by
City Council regarding lack of funding for social service
agencies
Paul mentioned that while all of these recommendations are
great ideas it could be too expensive for the City to implement
these ideas.
Tass, Shawna and Kim added that many of the recommended Please send Shawna
ideas are duplicates of initiatives that are already happening in any further
our community. recommendations as
well as names of any
Dianne asked "if all of these initiatives are already in place then duplicate initiatives you
why are we here - what does the City want us to do?" may come across
Discussion ensued surrounding the committee's mandate and
why the committee was formed over two years ago. The
general consensus of the committee is to use the next meeting
to draft the recommendations / report to Council and to present
this to Council in April. As well as recommendations, the report
will include what the committee has done to date and our
findings in duplications of services and initiatives.
3. Other Business
Tass advised that the John Howard Society is hosting a youth
job fair on Wednesday, March 12 from 11 :00 am - 7:00 pm and
Thursday, March 13 from 11 :00 am - 5:00 pm at the Whitby
Resource Centre, 105 Consumers Dr., Unit 12, Whitby.
Meeting Adjourned: 7:30 pm
Next meeting: Tuesday, March 18 @ 6:00 pm - Tower Room
Copy: Mayor
Members of Council
Chief Administrative Officer
Department Heads
Division Heads
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