Welcome to the GETOUT! Ideas Factory!
GETOUT! Push Your Boundaries was a pilot of the City of Vancouver, Canada that ran from 2004 to 2006. It was all about Vancouver youth getting out and getting active in arts, in sports, in culture, in recreation and in the community. GetOut! recognized and supported the ideas and actions of Vancouver's youth and youth community to make the city a better place.
This website is the GETOUT! Ideas Factory! It's a place where youth and people who work with youth got together to talk about what youth were doing in the city, how they were doing it, and how we all could do it all better. This was also a place where youth and people who work with youth worked together. It was a creative forum...a virtual congress...a cyber think-tank...all revved up to produce, refine and share ideas about actively engaging Vancouver’s youth...and turning young people's ideas into actions!
To learn more about what was the City of Vancouver's GETOUT! initiative...
1. Come in and explore this website.
2. Read the Report on Impacts & Lessons Learned.
3. Contact the good folks at the City of Vancouver. Click here for who & how.
PLEASE NOTE: GetOut! is not accepting grant applications until further notice.
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Just a few GetOut! youth ideas turned action...
Youth Inspiring Action Network
Youth dragon-boating last summer as part of the Youth Inspiring Action (YIA) Network, where university youth leaders mentor high school youth leaders who mentor elementary youth leaders at several Vancouver community centres. YIA started as a set of Youth Peer Mentorship projects through GetOut! Grants to Youth and GetOut! New Recreation projects. Click here for more details. To get involved, visit their website at i2r.org/yia.
the "MADSkillz" Collective
MADSkillz started as a GetOut! Youth Action Team and a GetOut! New Recreation Programme. It is a youth-initiated and youth-driven creation, hosted by Britannia Community Centre. The idea was to create an informal economy (a bartering system), centred around Commercial Drive, building on the strengths and talents of youth. For example, one youth member gives lessons (let's say, in piano) to a second youth member, who builds (let's say, a table) for a third youth member, and so on... and so on...
Reel Youth
Reel Youth started as a GetOut! New Recreation Programme at Hastings Community Centre and other community centres in East Vancouver in partnership with Kiwassa Neighbourhood House. Reel Youth is a youth-initiated program that uses claymation to outreach and engage young people through workshops. Since then, it has grown rapidly involving more and more young people in the creation of an annual Youth-made Film Festival in Vancouver that tours throughout BC.
For more information and to get involved, please visit www.reelyouth.ca. Their website is a really cool place where you can see youth-made films.
Y:57 Youth in 57 Minutes
Y:57 started as a GetOut! Community Partnerships grant recipient - a creation of the Knowledgeable Aboriginal Youth Association (KAYA), Kinex Youth Initiative of the Self-Help Resource Association of BC, Vancouver Cooperative Radio and the Teen Centre at Britannia. The Y 57: Youth in 57 Minutes project assists youth, who are inactive or who feel under represented by mainstream media, get involved in their own radio program. On the air, youth express their talents and perspectives, build their capacities for community engagement and gain tools and skills needed to regularly air a diverse youth-focused, youth-driven radio program in collaboration with peers and community partners.
Y:57 rides the airwaves from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm (4th and 5th Monday each month). To get involved or to let them know about your youth project to broadcast on air, contact : Youth.in57minutes (at) gmail.com.