City to City
City to City is a leadership development program for teens aged 13 to 17, that explores community from different locations, experiences, and lenses. Teens visit a variety of community spaces over the 28 week long program. Locations will include but are not limited to a farm, a city, and an Indigenous community space.
The City to City program themes include exploring built environment, food, transportation, social location, and culture. Through group and self-reflective activities teens will develop leadership skills of collaboration, curiosity, active listening, and attention to social awareness, privilege and posture in community work. Our goal is to provide an opportunity for youth to gain a curious and critical perspective of social issues and solutions within and out of the lived community they reside in.
City to City 2023 was a success!
In our pilot year of the program, City to City ran over 1 week in August. With our group of 15 youth, we visited Six Nations, Rare Conservation Springbank Community Garden and Toronto . Thank you to our City to City youth for a great first year of the program!
To donate to support the next year of the program, or to learn more contact us below:
Preston Heights Community Group begins new youth ‘City to City’ program – CambridgeToday.ca
City to City Impact
Read through participant feedback on their experience with City to City below!
“I got to meet lots of different people and experience so many new things! 10/10!”
“My experience this week has been really great. I had so much fun visiting new places, doing new things, and making new friends.”
“You do a lot of fun stuff you would not normally do on your own.”
“City to City let me experience thing I have never done before”
“My experience was really fun, I met new people and learned a lot this week.”
““I like this program a lot because it give 40 hours of volunteering. Also all of the staff here are super friendly they can be my friend and they have lot of experience.”
“I had a lot of fun at this program, meeting new people and going to different places.”
“Doing the City to City program helped to teach me leaderships and teamwork, we did a lot of teambuilding activities that were very enjoyable.”