They Symposium Schedule is up!

Agenda

8:00-9:00                   Registration and Breakfast

9:00-9:15                   Welcome

9:15-9:30                   Mezart Daulet: “Queer Asian Youth: Ethno-Specific Community Engagement and Capacity Building for Youth”

9:30-9:45                   Lexie Maister: “Evaluation Strategies for Peer Education Programs”

9:45-10:00                 Nakia Lee-Foon: “What’s going on? Exploring Black parent-youth sexual health communication”

10:00-10:15               Ciann Wilson: “Condoms and Contradictions: How Queer and Trans Youth Labelled with Intellectual Disabilities Navigate Safer Sex Decisions”

10:15-10:30               Lauren Munro & Alex St. John: “Telling the TRUTH: A model for understanding social exclusion and HIV vulnerability among newcomer lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth”

10:30-10:45               Health Break

10:45-11:00               J'net AyAy Qwa Yak Sheelth Cavanagh: “Empowering Indigenous Youth with Oral Stories”

11:00-11:15               Jessica Khouri: “Introducing The Empower Project”

11:15-11:30               Stephen Sillett: “Capturing the Unspoken: Using Socio-Drama Topography to Explore Peer Influence with African Youth”

11:30-11:45               Carolina Paterson: “Sex on the Street: A Neo-Foucaultian Analysis”

11:45-12:00               Adrian Guta: “Biopolitics, Risk, and Resistance: The Production of Young Mens’ Masculinities in Toronto”

12:00-12:30               Guided Poster Tours

12:30-1:15                 Lunch

1:30-2:15                   Youth Involvement in Research Panel : Stanley Ing, Kaiesha Walker: & Jessica Whitbread                            

2:15-2:30                   Health Break

2:30-3:30                   Keynote presentation by Rosalind Petchesky: “Biopolitics at the Crossroads of Sexuality and Disaster”

3:30-4:00                   Interactive Games and Booths (twister, jeopardy, condom buttons, sexy headbands)                        

4:30-5:00                   Student Awards and Closing

YOUTH RIG

Planned Parenthood Toronto & Gendering Adolescent AIDS Prevention (GAAP),

invite you to join us for the...

2011 STUDENT SYMPOSIUM ON

URBAN YOUTH AND THE

DETERMINANTS OF SEXUAL HEALTH

THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS

IS FEBRuARY 25^th 2011!!!

This is a FREE symposium that will be held on

THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2011

At the William Doo Auditorium

45 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON

WE ARE CALLING FOR SUBMISSIONS

Research-focused or Artistically-focused (i.e. film, photography,

theatre, music, spoken word, etc.) on any of the following areas:

• Social justice & sexual or reproductive rights
• HIV/AIDS prevention, sexual and reproductive health and harm reduction
• Exploring diversity in gender and sexuality
• Intersectional approaches to equity and the social determinants of adolescent sexual health
• Improving youth access to sexual health services and education
• Participatory methodologies that promote youth involvement, leadership and community development
• Globalization, Stigma and much more...

A total of three awards will be granted to students in categories of oral, poster, and artistic presentation.

For registration and abstract submission package, click here.

For more information contact youthrig@gmail.com