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Ariel Root Ariel Root
Children in Sioux Lookout enjoy both organized and independent recreation, but the need for more extracurricular activities — and
opportunities to expand programs that work — is one potential focus for the multi-pronged Youth Futures project.
valuable employment skills such as times during the development of Youth different backgrounds, and our job is
teamwork, leadership, responsibility, Futures, says it has been important to bring those to the table and talk to
perseverance and problem solving. “It’s to get a practical sense of what community members about where and
extremely important to build capacity resources exist, and how researchers how they’d like to proceed.
locally as a step toward community- might constructively engage with their “What we have to offer is an array
driven developments,” says Matheson. local partners. “It’s very important of approaches that these communities
“There are many seeds there.” to get a sense of the on-the-ground would otherwise not have access to.
Graham, a project leader who realities,” says Graham. “I like the The scale of this project is unique.”
travelled to Sioux Lookout several toolbox analogy. We have a lot of
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