LIGHTHOUSES

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LIGHTHOUSES
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What is Lighthouses?

• A crime prevention funding program for youth
• Based in communities in Manitoba that provide
  safe and positive settings for youth outside
  school hours.
• Offers a fixed grant per annum of 12,000 per
  site from Manitoba Justice.
• Designed to develop partnerships with youth,
  community members and agencies.
• Promotes youth participation in decision-making.
• The programs are usually open to all youth.

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The Key Objectives of Lighthouses

• To involve youth, in a meaningful way, in
  decision-making about program development.
• To have youth, who may be at risk of being
  involved in crime, get involved in positive
  activities.
• To offer programs that have elements of skill
  building structure, in a safe, healthy and
  positive environment.

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More Key Objectives

• To use existing schools, community centres,
  Friendship Centres, etc.
• To encourage community capacity building
• To encourage partners to work closely on the
  Community Steering Committee that governs the
  program.

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What is the Community Steering Committee?

• It governs the Lighthouse site
• It is made up of interested adults and agency
  representatives and includes
• A minimum of two youth
• A representative of the host agency, which is an
  incorporated body that would manage the funds
• It hires the staff
• It ensures appropriate reporting

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How does a Community Steering Committee plan for
a site?

• Community Steering Committee asks the following
  questions
• What age groups do we want to serve?
• Where will the activities take place?
• At what time and on what days will they take
  place?
• Who will be the host agency?
• The guideline for expenses
• 10 hours of supervision a week by two young
  adults for 50 weeks at 11.00 per hour

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How does Lighthouses do Business?

• We fund community groups 12,000 a year
• We recognize services-in-kind and encourage
  additional fund-raising
• Funding is principally for
• Salary and benefits for a part-time coordinator
  and assistants
• Minor equipment and supplies, e.g. basketballs,
  arts crafts, computer software, incentives

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How Many Sites are there?

• 2001-2002
• 20 sites
• 2008-2009
• 55 sites (34 in Winnipeg and 21 in rural
  Manitoba)
• 2011-2012
• Goal 70 sites

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Youth Involvement in Decision-Making

• Formal
• Minimum of 2 youth on the Community Steering
  Committee
• Informal
• Frequently consulted re programming and
  problem-solving

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Application Deadline

• December 1st of each year for funding beginning
  October 1st of the following year
• We offer assistance with completing the
  application form
• Currently, 5 new sites are opened annually, for
  which we receive approximately 20 applications

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Reporting Process

• Semi-annual and annual reports
• Expenses
• of program hours
• of boys and girl visits
• of Steering Committee meetings
• Days and times of operation
• Activities
• Success stories
• Challenges

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Youth Visits
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Branding
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A PROFILE OF LIGHTHOUSES YOUTH
PARTICIPANTS May 2003 Kaplan Associates
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YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN LIGHTHOUSES PROGRAMS
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YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN PLANNING PROGRAMS AND
ACTIVITIES
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YOUTH EVALUATING THEIR EXPERIENCES
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STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS PERCEPTIONS
OF THE PROGRAM
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The Positive Impact on Selected Youth

• Making a Difference The Positive Impact of the
  Lighthouses Program on Selected Manitoba Youth
  by Kaplan and Associates
• May 2006
• The Lighthouses Program in Dauphin
• Geoff
• During the summer months in particular, Geoff
  attended almost every day that it was open. This
  included from 500 to 900 almost every Friday
  night, from 200 to 600 p.m., and 700 1100
  p.m. almost every Saturday, and very similar
  hours on Sunday.

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Geoffs opinion

• Geoff felt that the Lighthouses Program helped
  him stay out of trouble and provided him with an
  alternative to hanging around with his friends
  from school.
• Geoff reported that he met new friends through
  the program.
• Geoff reported that the program stops kids from
  doing vandalism and tagging. Instead of
  tagging, he said, the program got these same kids
  involved in doing art work.

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Geoffs Dads Opinion

• Prior to Lighthouses, his son was getting into
  trouble on a daily basis. Hanging out, knocking
  down garbage cans, steeling bikes and stripping
  them for their parts, and vandalizing local
  properties and breaking windows.
• Since Geoff has attended LH, he has new friends
  and hes straightened out quite a bit. The
  program gave Geoff a positive place to go. Kids
  learned values through the program.

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Site Visits By Lighthouses Managers
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THE ANNUAL CONFERENCES each spring
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Current Initiatives

• Providing information support for sites to
  ensure
• Adequate supervision by respected adults
• Effective group expectations and management
• An increase in structured activities, which
  include some skill development

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Current Initiatives (cont.)

• September 2008, contracted an outside agency to
  provide training to LH staff in the areas of
• Group and Behaviour Management
• Program Development
• March 2009, evaluation of their impact is done
  through pre, intermediate and post questionnaires
  to youth

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Challenges

• Communitys capacity
• to establish a committee and govern
• To find staff to do front line work

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Success Story

• Hip Hop Academy
• Broadway Neighbourhood Centre, Winnipeg
• 12 week course for youth to produce their own rap
  songs on a CD
• Mondays 6-9 pm lyric beat writing
• Thursdays 6-9 pm vocals, mixing

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Hip Hop Academy

• In the basement of the Neighbourhood Centre
• Room with computers, music-designing software,
  monitors for teaching purposes
• Sound-proofed booth for recording

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Hip Hop Academy

• Who attends?
• Recently arrived African youth, often from war
  torn countries, limited education, EAL
• Our Aboriginal youth
• (A seamless blend!)
• The Academy
• Has now moved into stage productions radio
  transmission of their songs
• Gives workshops to other sites
• Has started a Little Academy for 8-12 year olds

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Hip Hop Academy

• The lyrics on the CDs are based on the lives of
  the youth
• They are helped to express themselves in English
• Violent or foul language, gang references are not
  permitted in the lyrics
• From the first lesson, the CD is viewed as being
  suitable for eventual public consumption

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Hip Hop Academy

• The rough drafts of the CDs are placed on a
  website and then fine-tuned by a sound engineer
  in Thailand

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In Conclusion

• Lighthouses exist to make our young people feel
  included
• Where they
• Share decision-making
• Learn some skills
• Are in the presence of positive role-models
• Enjoy the company of their peers

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Lighthouses

• Manitoba Justice
• Community Justice Branch
• 1505-405 Broadway Avenue
• Winnipeg MB R3C 3L6
• Richard Kennett
• Tel [phone]
• richard.kennett_at_gov.mb.ca
  http//www.gov.mb.ca/justice/lighthouses