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:

Storytelling Series:

• 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 3rd- Sunday 4th August 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.

 
Youth Week Training:

• Wednesday 22nd May, 5.30PM
• This year the theme for Youth Week is: "We are more than you see; He wai hōhonu a mātou" (literally, we are deep waters, thus referring to unseen depths) so we are currently developing a training on youth and disability around this theme, that all young people are welcome to attend and participate in.

 
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.

 
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To know more or to get involved contact ReDefine Project Manager Eleanor Hurton:
 

Email: ​eleanor@youthvoicecanterbury.org.nz