Hey JB Canada, as you probably know, the NJRs have just finished their midway meeting! Mercedes took the ferry over to Victoria and stayed in Amy’s humble abode. We got tons done this weekend, starting with a trip to the bank as well as some much needed Starbucks to get us going for the weekend. We skyped with Grace Voterro, from the USA who is the Chapter Development specialist on the IJB team who was awesome. She was incredibly helpful, and gave us lots of new strategies to tackle some problems that we’ve heard of in some Canadian JBs and chapters. If you’d like to hear what she had to say, let us know. We’re really excited to be able to put into action her words of wisdom. Next up, we got to check in with the lovely Francois Rivard from Montreal, who is our JB representative on the peace bus program committee. There’s some really exciting stuff going on for the peace bus 2014, so if you’d like to know more, contact Francois!
One thing we worked a lot on this weekend was creating a policy that is similar to the Child Protection Policy we learned a lot about at SBTF and NBM this year. Currently we’re calling it the Youth Protecting Youth Policy, but it’s subject to change. It focuses a lot on how to deal with awkward situations and what boundaries to draw when we’re in positions of authority but also still children (under 18 years). There is also a big chunk about social media, so keep your eyes peeled for the new policy!
After hammering out the policy, we looked through some old CISV documents from as far back as 2000! Did you know that JB started in Canada, all the way back in 1981, with the election of our first NJR Jeffrey Parliament? Pretty cool. Some chapter reports were written by the LJRs back in the day, Aynsley Hague, Alyssa Alidina, Julia Sheldon, Keenan Dixon, Kaleene Thors, and Alex Nueman. Pretty cool that they are all still involved in CISV! If you’d like to look at the reports from your chapter, let us know and we can scan a copy for you!
We also skyped with the IJRs, Cande and Anjo and learned lots about them, and they learned lots about JB Canada – they seemed pretty impressed! We wrapped the weekend up by working on our bylaws! They’re (almost) completely up to date, and we will distribute the new version as well as a document that tracks the changes made. We then took hilarious pictures for a possible Christmas/holiday card!
All in all, it was a crazy fun two days, with tons of work jam-packed into it. We got lots done, and are looking forward to implementing the new strategies for the coming year!
See you all in 2014, JB Canada!
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