One of the clearest things about our Black History Month event was how much of it was carried by young people.<\/p>\n
Children and teenagers introduced segments, read pieces they had written, sat on the panel and answered questions in front of a full room. Some had never held a microphone before.<\/p>\n
Confidence is not a personality trait, it is practice. A young person who has spoken to a hundred people at eleven walks into a job interview at twenty differently.<\/p>\n
Our youth work is built around that: real audiences, real stakes, real support in the weeks beforehand.<\/p>\n
Read about our youth development work<\/a>, or volunteer as a mentor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Children and teenagers introduced segments, read poetry and spoke to a full hall at our Black History Month event in Barrie. Confidence is learned out loud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"description":"Children and teenagers introduced segments, read poetry and spoke to a full hall at our Black History Month event in Barrie. Confidence is learned out loud.","title":"Young speakers took the microphone in Barrie"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}