Cookie-a-Thon: CISV Ottawa Style!

Hey CISV Canada! 

Recently the CISV Ottawa chapter hosted our annual Cookie-a-Thon! We all had a blast and we ended up baking 1200 cookies! (Yes Toronto, you beat us) We played games like mafia, suits and a huge game of Apples To Apples, along with baking a ton of cookies and watching Frozen! 

We are selling most of the cookies but we are also setting up a sponsor program where instead of buying a bag of cookies for themselves, Ottawa members can buy one to send to our local homeless shelter: the Ottawa Mission! 

We will be selling a lot of these cookie at our up and coming event: Silly Chili, which is a chapter-wide potluck dinner where the chapter members can meet the traveling delegations for this year! 

Well that's all for now from Ottawa! We will keep you all updated on our events! 

For recent updates about all things JB Ottawa, check out the LJR blog!  http://himandherljr.wordpress.com/

Love from the Capitol, 

  Troy- Ottawa LJR 

Cookies, Cookies and more Cookies: An update from JB Toronto

Hey JB Canada! It’s Adam from JB Toronto. We just had our annual cookieathon. We all worked very hard some of us even worked all night to get the cookie making done. It was a blast. 

We ended up making 3200 cookies, which we gave to the poor. Not only did we make cookies, we also played some really fun games as well as made some new friends. One of the coolest parts of the night was when we had someone who was on the first village ever come and talk to us about it. He showed us a video of his village and explained what they were doing on it. It was very interesting to know all about it. In all we had a great time and are already excited for next years cookieathon! 

Branch Out: a new IJB Project

Having trouble completing your 5/8 activities? Participate in this IJB Project! It count's as one! 

Branch Out is the International Junior Branch Project on Diversity for 2014. It is composed of six steps that will be published throughout the year.

Dive In! is the first step of Branch Out. It aims to promote a discussion on Sexuality and Gender Diversity issues.

It is composed of one ready-to-run activity and further reading on the topic. We hope it will be a useful tool for CISV to explore Diversity in 2014. 

You can find more information here: http://issuu.com/cisvjuniorbranch/docs/branch_out_2014_-_step_one_-_dive_i 

CISV Victoria: Anti-Bullying Day

February 26th, as you may all know, is Anti-Bullying Day and CISV Victoria got involved! We had a few representatives go to a local film festival to watch videos made by youth about anti-bullying, participate in the fun crowd activities, and promote CISV to the youth of Victoria. 

There were 20 videos locally made by youth groups (most of the audience were under the age of 10), all entered to win prizes. Sadly, we didn't have time to make a video so we are hoping to submit one next year. We learned about the importance of inclusion and how taking a small step and speaking up for someone else will go a long way. The sea of pink shirts and smiles was very loud and excited on this Wednesday night and CISV Victoria was pumped to be a part of this!!

CISV LGBTQ and Inclusion Project Update

La retourne de CISV LGBTQ returns!!!

Salut/Hello CISV JB Canada!

Pour commencer, Sierra et moi, on veut vous remercier pour tous que vous avex fait pour promouvoir la conversation à propos des topiques LGBTQ. On avait aimer les rendez-vous avec les représentatifs de vos chapitres a NBM et nous sommes vraiment content avec le progrès qu’on a atteint déjà!

To begin, Sierra and I want to say an enormous thank you for everything you’ve been doing for promoting conversation about LGBTQ topics. We loved getting to meet with your chapter representatives at NBM and are really happy with the progress that’s been made so far.

Si vous n’avez pas le vu déjà, on a fait quelques changements sur le site-web depuis Novembre (www.cisvlgbtqandinclusion.weebly.com). On le change pour que ce soit plus logique et on ajoute de contenu aux ressources que vous avez demandé á NBM.

If you haven’t seen it already, we’ve made some changes on the website since November (www.cisvlgbtqandinclusion.weebly.com). We’re changing things around to make a bit more sense and are beefing up the resources that you asked for at NBM.

Regardez le page des Nouvelles ou on poste des Événements pour vous inspirer pour les discussions des topiques LGBTQ. Nous avons, aussi, changer le format pour promouvoir la communication pour commencer et puis planifier les activités après que la communication est établis dans l’entier de votre chapitre

Have a look at the News page where we have news events posted for inspiration in discussions of LGBTQ topics. We’ve also changed the layout to focus on getting communication down first and then moving to activity planning after communication is top notch in your whole chapter.

Alors, tout le monde, continuer le travaille super et un grand « bien fait! » pour ceux d’entre vous qui répondent au courrielles ;) Sierra et moi, vous pouvez toujours nous trouver à cisvlgbtq@gmail.com

So everyone, keep up the good work and a big “way to go!” for those of you who respond to your emails ;) Sierra and I are always reachable at cisvlgbtq@gmail.com

 Peace and l’amour!

-Erin

National Camp Applications Now Available!

National Camp applications are now out! Contact ncc@ca.cisv.org or your Local National Camp Coordinator for more information! 

Toronto JB Update!!

Hey JB Canada! 

Hope you are all doing fantastic. Apart from the crazy amount of snow we have been having here in Toronto, we have been busy planning all these amazing events for our chapter. Though the only two things we have had recently are info day and selections. Our cookie athon is right around the corner planned by our beautiful Hannah. Hope you all are having awesome times in your chapter. We love you!! 

Love JB Toronto

Another LJR Townhall!

Hi everyone!

Just a reminder that our second LJR Townhall is scheduled for this Sunday, February 23rd at 1PM in Vancouver and Victoria, 4PM in Ontario, and 5PM on the East Coast. All LJRs are invited, and we encourage you to drop in and say hi. The meeting will begin with Grace Vottero, who will be our guest speaker available to answer questions about JB retention, and chapter development. Come prepared with some questions as Grace is such a wonderful resource.

Please remember to wear headphones. We will also be muting you if there is a lot of background noise coming from your house.

We look forward to seeing you on Sunday!

Need more information? Contact your DCC's at dcc@ca.cisv.org! They can answer any of your questions!

Hope to see you there!