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What is ReDefine: Youth Development Programme?
ReDefine aims to redefine what it means to be a young person with a disability and empower these young people to take on a positive identity and see their value not despite disability but with disability.
We will do this through a number of key initiatives:
Inspiring Speaker Series:
30th July and 24th September
Two-Day ReDefine Hui:
Saturday 31st August - Sunday 1st September 2019
Seeking Expressions of Interest:
To know more or to get involved contact ReDefine Project Manager Eleanor Hurton:
Email: eleanor@youthvoicecanterbury.org.nz
We will do this through a number of key initiatives:
Inspiring Speaker Series:
30th July and 24th September
- Showcasing the real stories and day-to-day successes of young people with disabilities.
- Combatting the tokenistic ways disability stories are often told by the media that offer little benefit or acknowledgement to the people with disabilities they discuss.
- To offer youth with disabilities ‘real’ and ‘accessible’ young role-models that they can connect and engage with.
Two-Day ReDefine Hui:
Saturday 31st August - Sunday 1st September 2019
- Day 1: Just for young people with disabilities: to have personal development opportunities and connect and upskill.
- Day 2: An opportunity for young people with a disability and non-disabled young people to come together and look at the role of disability in youth voice and participation
Seeking Expressions of Interest:
- YVC is currently in the process of creating an Advisory Group of a handful of young people (aged 12-24) with disabilities to help support us with ReDefine, as we know that young people come from diverse backgrounds and experiences and youth with disabilities are no different.
To know more or to get involved contact ReDefine Project Manager Eleanor Hurton:
Email: eleanor@youthvoicecanterbury.org.nz