Meeting: January 21, 2008

Meeting Notes from January 21, 2008

Team (present):

(NP7): Lida Lore, Leilani Ocampo, Lucy Varghese, Brenda Bearisto

(NP6?): Jessie Sandhu, Sharyln Khan, Raj Khatra, Karm Sodhi

(Virsa): Balbir Gurm and Mike Powar

What did we talk about?

• There will be 2 teams working on two separate (but also connected) aspects of the project with Virsa
  • Community Change (NP7):
    • Literature Review: (suggestions: best practices of other youth programs (Bay Area), youth development, migrant community issues, etc.)
    • Project: unclear yet, but the general goal is to work towards a community event of some sort
  • Research:
    • Culture & Identity with Youth of Migrant Communities
    • Community visits

• Discussed goals of project-starting with the rationale for the creation of the committee from Virsa & the feedback from various forums held throughout the lower mainland
• Possible projects:
  • working with mentorship groups or mentors: perhaps an evaluation of the program, or delivering some useful material to incorporate into mentorship programs that meets the goals of the committee
  • MELA–My Experience Living as a South Asian
• TO DO:
  • figure out meeting schedules
  • research respective areas of concentration to start developing ideas about possible concrete work
  • develop a timeline for various aspects of project